MaxScale 25.01.6 Release Notes

Release 25.01.6 is a GA release.

Release Date: 16 Mar 2026

This document describes the changes in release 25.01.6, 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-6212 Kafkacdc doesn't log GTID positions when losing ownership of a cluster

• MXS-6209 maxctrl create report may truncate output

• MXS-6201 maxctrl deprecation warning with nodejs 24.x and later

• MXS-6196 kafkacdc doesn't enable TLS for replication connections

• MXS-6193 Crash on malformed OK packet

• MXS-6123 JSON output in rest API is reporting true/false for auto_failover as string

• MXS-6103 MaxScale uses a hard-coded value of LimitNOFILE=65535 in the systemd service file

• MXS-6093 maxctrl alter user fails to process purely numeric passwords, resulting in "No password provided" error

• MXS-6086 Table name parsing doesn't remove identifier quotes

• MXS-6083 Syncing MaxScale ends up with different JSON configuration

• MXS-6082 Maintenance and drain statuses aren't synced with galeramon

• MXS-6044 MaxScale masking-service crashing after upgrade

• MXS-6035 Write test success message should be an info message

• MXS-6033 No error or warning when using an unreadable PAM config

• MXS-6030 CDC/Avrorouter Fails to Recover from Error 1236 When gtid_start_pos=newest

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.

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