MariaDB MaxScale 2.5.9 Release Notes

Release 2.5.9 is a GA release.

Released: 10 Mar 2021

This document describes the changes in release 2.5.9, when compared to the previous release in the same series.

If you are upgrading from an older major version of MaxScale, please read the upgrading document for this MaxScale version.

For any problems you encounter, please consider submitting a bug report on our Jira.

Bug fixes

• MXS-3428 Regression in max_slave_replication_lag

• MXS-3426 MaxScale with SSL in Azure Cloud not working properly

• MXS-3419 Token authentication doesn't perform authorization

• MXS-3416 causal_reads=global returns an unexpected OK packet

• MXS-3409 Need more GRANTs to be documented for connecting to xpand direct using xpandmon

• MXS-3404 maxscale write in the slave with function

• MXS-3392 Reset implementation on failing prepared statement

Known Issues and Limitations

There are some limitations and known issues within this version of MaxScale. For more information, please refer to the Limitations document.

Packaging

RPM and Debian packages are provided for supported the Linux distributions.

Packages can be downloaded here.

Source Code

The source code of MaxScale is tagged at GitHub with a tag, which is identical with the version of MaxScale. For instance, the tag of version X.Y.Z of MaxScale is maxscale-X.Y.Z. Further, the default branch is always the latest GA version of MaxScale.

The source code is available here.