Release Notes for MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.3.16-1

New Features

• MariaDB Enterprise Backup with support of non-blocking Backups

• Backup Stages for non-blocking Backups

• Maximum number of secondary indexes increased to 128 per table

• Tracing facility for the Optimizer

• Slow master shutdown option

New Default Settings

A new Enterprise config file is provided that sets optimized defaults:

• Server does not load plugins of maturity Beta or lower

• Authentication plugin Ed25519 is loaded by default

• Account root is using unix_socket by default on Linux systems

• Accounts for root can only connect from local host

• Accounts of type anonymous-user removed

• Database "test" has no default grants

• simple_password_check plugin is activated by default with settings:

  • simple_password_check_minimal_length = 8

  • simple_password_check_digits = 1

  • simple_password_check_letters_same_case = 1

  • simple_password_check_other_characters = 1

• Audit plugin is loaded by default, but is not activated

• DISKS plugin is loaded by default on Linux systems

Notable Changes

• DISKS plugin, used by MariaDB MaxScale, is now of maturity stable

• Access to data provided by DISKS plugin via the information schema requires FILE privilege

• Unsupported Community plugins are not loaded by default

• Embedded Server removed

• HeidiSQL is not included in Windows installations

Platforms

In alignment to the enterprise lifecycle, MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.3.16-1 is provided for:

• CentOS 7

• CentOS 6

• Debian 9

• Debian 8

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

• Ubuntu 18.04

• Ubuntu 16.04

• Microsoft Windows

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