MaxScale 25.10.1 Release Notes

MaxScale 25.10.1 is a Stable (GA) release of MariaDB MaxScale 25.10, released on 2026-01-09

Release Date: 9 Jan 2026

Release 25.10.1 is a GA release.

This document describes the changes in release 25.10.1, 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.

External CVEs resolved.

• CVE-2025-59288 Fixed by MXS-5994 Bump gui dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

• CVE-2025-62410 Fixed by MXS-5994 Bump gui dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

• CVE-2025-62522 Fixed by MXS-5994 Bump gui dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

New Features

• MXS-5998 Support Okta SSO in maxscale

• MXS-5888 Create an ExasolRouter

• MXS-5124 give maxctrl its own installation package

Bug fixes

• MXS-6043 MaxScale WebUI: prevent load Adobe CSS for Internet-restricted sites

• MXS-6031 No error message if connection to server fails during start of switchover

• MXS-6027 SmartRouter should never return anything but resultsets from non-master targets

• MXS-6017 Adapt to MDEV-37554 protocol changes

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

• MXS-6005 Signal 11 crash

• MXS-6002 REST-API logs an error on startup with threads=1

• MXS-5995 Regular Signal 11 crashes

• MXS-5988 Query editor connections aren't discarded after login expires

• MXS-5987 The Query Editor's history table columns are not fully expanded

• MXS-5983 Default users_refresh_interval causes repeated user account loading

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

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

• MXS-5658 Replace KB doc links in MaxGUI with GitBook doc links

• MXS-5637 ssl_ciphers-setting does not affect TLSv1.3 ciphers

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.