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# MaxScale 23.02.19 Release Notes

Release 23.02.19 is a GA release.

**Release Date:** 17 Sep 2026

This document describes the changes in release 23.02.19, 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](/docs/maxscale/maxscale-management/deployment/upgrading-maxscale.md) for this MaxScale version.

For any problems you encounter, please consider submitting a bug report on [our Jira](https://jira.mariadb.org/projects/MXS).

## Bug fixes

* [MXS-6886](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6886) SQL\_MODE tracked by MaxScale is not reset on COM\_CHANGE\_USER/COM\_RESET\_CONNECTION
* [MXS-6880](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6880) MaxScale treats SET GLOBAL SQL\_MODE=ORACLE as if it was SET SESSION
* [MXS-6872](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6872) With NoSQL protocol, a malformed packet can cause MaxScale to crash
* [MXS-6867](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6867) SET wait\_timeout is not respected by MaxScale
* [MXS-6864](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6864) Loss of master lock should trigger a hangup
* [MXS-6850](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6850) Negative connection IDs in "show sessions"
* [MXS-6844](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6844) Escape untrusted content before rendering as HTM
* [MXS-6841](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6841) Signed integer overflow with very large pagination values
* [MXS-6836](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6836) External Typekit stylesheet loaded without SRI
* [MXS-6810](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6810) Missing X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
* [MXS-6726](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6726) MXS-5915 Still broken on MaxScale 24.02.9 with MariaDB 12.2/12.3 — TRUE/FALSE not handled
* [MXS-6706](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6706) Redundant charset notice messages with utf8mb4\_uca1400\_ai\_ci
* [MXS-6705](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6705) Configuration synchronization unnecessarily destroys all objects
* [MXS-6704](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6704) Empty passwords in monitors and services do not work with configuration synchronization
* [MXS-6703](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6703) config\_sync\_password cannot be an empty string
* [MXS-6702](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6702) Crash if command byte is 0xFF
* [MXS-6700](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6700) Crash on KILL\tUSER\tfoobar
* [MXS-6671](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6671) Maxscale memory is increasing linearly over the period of a week
* [MXS-6606](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6606) mxq::ODCB::disconnect() disconnects/frees handles in the wrong order.
* [MXS-6581](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6581) KafkaCDC causes segfault when processing geometry datatype events
* [MXS-6305](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6305) REST-API should send the Strict-Transport-Security header if HTTPS is used
* [MXS-5924](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-5924) MaxScale 24.02.6 automatic purging binlogs doesn't work and opens unlimited count of FD in OS Ubuntu

## Known Issues and Limitations

There are some limitations and known issues within this version of MaxScale. For more information, please refer to the [Limitations](/docs/maxscale/maxscale-management/mariadb-maxscale-limitations-guide.md) document.

## Packaging

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

Packages can be downloaded [here](https://mariadb.com/downloads).

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