Release Notes for MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5.8-5

MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5.8-5 is a Stable (GA) maintenance release of MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5, released on 2020-12-14

This fifth release of MariaDB Enterprise Serverarrow-up-right 10.5 is a maintenance release. This release includes security fixes.

MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5.8-5 was released on 2020-12-14.

Fixed Security Vulnerabilities

#1: MariaDB CVEs are assigned a word rating instead of a CVSS base score. See the MariaDB Engineering Policyarrow-up-right for details.

Notable Changes

  • A new privilege REPLICA MONITOR has been introduced with this version to fix a problem when upgrading to 10.5. A replica user couldn't run SHOW REPLICA STATUS. Upgrades from 10.4 to 10.5 now adjust the privileges automatically. The new privilege needs to be added manually for a replica user when updating from an earlier 10.5 version. For more information on MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5 privileges, see "Privileges Comparison ES10.4 and ES10.5.8-5".

    • Users of MariaDB MaxScale's MariaDB Monitor upgrading from a prior version of MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5 who have used the new 10.5 privileges must ensure the updated privilege has been granted to the MaxScale user and Replication user. For detailed privilege information, see Configuring MariaDB Monitor's User Account.

  • Galera wsrep library updated to 26.4.6 in MariaDB Enterprise Clusterarrow-up-right.

  • The audit plugin (not MariaDB Enterprise Audit) did not log proxy users. The new plugin version 2.0.3 introduces an event sub-type PROXY_CONNECT for event type CONNECT. (MDEV-19443arrow-up-right)

    • On connect, if a proxy user is used, an extra line will be logged: TIME,HOSTNAME,user,localhost,ID,0,PROXY_CONNECT,test,plug_dest@%,0

  • The new parameter --include-unsupported for the script mariadb_es_repo_setup can be used to enable a repository of unsupported packages in the repository configuration. The repository currently includes the CONNECT Storage Engine. The storage engine can be installed by yum install MariaDB-connect-engine or apt-get install mariadb-plugin-connect-engine (MENT-1003)

  • MariaDB Enterprise Audit did not log proxy users. The new plugin version 2.0.3 introduces an event sub-type PROXY_CONNECT for event type CONNECT. (MENT-977)

    • On connect, if a proxy user is used, an extra line will be logged: TIME,HOSTNAME,user,localhost,ID,0,PROXY_CONNECT,test,plug_dest@%,0

    • The event type can also be used in filters "connect_event": ["CONNECT","DISCONNECT","PROXY_CONNECT"]

  • Performance improvements for comparisons of temporal data types with temporal literals. (MDEV-23551arrow-up-right)

  • Performance improvements for comparisons of temporal data types. (MDEV-23537arrow-up-right)

  • For MariaDB Enterprise Server on MS Windows, NTFS file metadata on NTFS is not flushed anymore, reducing the write workload I/O. (MDEV-24037arrow-up-right)

  • Improved write performance for InnoDB. (MDEV-23855arrow-up-right, MDEV-23399arrow-up-right)

  • The S3 storage engine now allows you to specify a port (--s3-port) to connect to and to force to use HTTP (--s3-use-http). So it is now possible to connect to other solutions which provide the same open API used for Amazon S3. (MDEV-23662arrow-up-right)

  • Performance improvements for conversions from temporal data types to string. (MDEV-23568arrow-up-right)

  • Performance improvements for handling numeric data. (MDEV-23478arrow-up-right)

  • Default changed from 1 to 0 for command line option --temp-pool. Benchmarking showed that the old default causes a heavy mutex contention. (MDEV-22278arrow-up-right)

Issues Fixed

Can result in data loss

Can result in a hang or crash

Can result in unexpected behavior

  • mariadb_es_repo_setup curl failed on Ubuntu Focal if ca-certificates is not installed. Now it will prompt an error about missing ca-certificates (MENT-971)

  • Upgrade wizard not offered during 10.5 MSI installation on Windows. (MDEV-23462arrow-up-right)

Changes in Storage Engines

  • This release incorporates MariaDB ColumnStore storage engine version 5.5.1.

Interface Changes

Platforms

In alignment with the enterprise lifecyclearrow-up-right, MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5.8-5 is provided for:

  • AlmaLinux 8 (x86_64, ARM64)

  • AlmaLinux 9 (x86_64, ARM64)

  • Debian 11 (x86_64, ARM64)

  • Debian 12 (x86_64, ARM64)

  • Microsoft Windows (x86_64) (MariaDB Enterprise Cluster excluded)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (x86_64, ARM64)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (x86_64, ARM64)

  • Rocky Linux 8 (x86_64, ARM64)

  • Rocky Linux 9 (x86_64, ARM64)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (x86_64, ARM64)

  • Ubuntu 20.04 (x86_64, ARM64)

Some components of MariaDB Enterprise Server might not support all platforms. For additional information, see "MariaDB Corporation Engineering Policiesarrow-up-right".

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