MaxScale 24.02.8 Release Notes

MaxScale 24.02.8 is a Stable (GA) maintenance release of MariaDB MaxScale 24.02, released on 2025-12-09

This document describes the changes in release 24.02.8, 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-6031 No error message if connection to server fails during start of switchover

• MXS-6013 SHOW CREATE TABLE doesn't detect if a temporary table is used

• MXS-6005 Signal 11 crash

• MXS-5983 Default users_refresh_interval causes repeated user account loading

• MXS-5963 maxctrl create report --archive error reporting produces errors

• MXS-5954 kafkacdc doesn't escape db name identifiers resulting in errors

• MXS-5952 MaxScale failover fails with MASTER_SSL=1 default in MariaDB 11.4

• MXS-5948 Database names with dashes are not properly escaped when disabling events

• MXS-5947 Fix for MXS-5196 can break "maxctrl create report"

• MXS-5946 MaxKeys usage message is obsolete

• MXS-5717 Rebuild Replica fails when using MaxScale encrypted password for monitor user

• MXS-5688 MariaDBMon should not solely depend on "STOP SLAVE" when doing failover/switchover

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 the supported 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.

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