# MaxScale 25.10.2 Release Notes

Release 25.10.2 is a GA release.

**Release Date:** 18 Mar 2026

This document describes the changes in release 25.10.2, 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](https://app.gitbook.com/s/0pSbu5DcMSW4KwAkUcmX/maxscale-management/deployment/upgrading-maxscale) for this MaxScale version.

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

## New Features

* [MXS-6085](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6085) Add support for MariaDB Advanced Cluster (RAFT) to Galera Monitor

## Bug fixes

* [MXS-6212](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6212) Kafkacdc doesn't log GTID positions when losing ownership of a cluster
* [MXS-6209](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6209) maxctrl create report may truncate output
* [MXS-6201](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6201) maxctrl deprecation warning with nodejs 24.x and later
* [MXS-6196](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6196) kafkacdc doesn't enable TLS for replication connections
* [MXS-6193](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6193) Crash on malformed OK packet
* [MXS-6159](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6159) The query editor and data migration fail to show the schema tree
* [MXS-6135](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6135) Admin GUI Switchover sub-window should auto-disable page refresh
* [MXS-6103](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6103) MaxScale uses a hard-coded value of LimitNOFILE=65535 in the systemd service file
* [MXS-6097](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6097) QC cache thread level memory limit uses the global memory limit
* [MXS-6093](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6093) maxctrl alter user fails to process purely numeric passwords, resulting in "No password provided" error
* [MXS-6092](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6092) Maxgui traffic lights not red, if replication is broken.
* [MXS-6091](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6091) disk\_space\_threshold only sees the first item returned by "SELECT ... FROM information\_schema.disks"
* [MXS-6086](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6086) Table name parsing doesn't remove identifier quotes
* [MXS-6083](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6083) Syncing MaxScale ends up with different JSON configuration
* [MXS-6082](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6082) Maintenance and drain statuses aren't synced with galeramon
* [MXS-6080](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6080) Maxscale 25.10.0 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
* [MXS-6051](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6051) pam\_use\_cleartext\_plugin on a server causes issues when both mariadbauth and pamauth are enabled in a listener
* [MXS-6044](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6044) MaxScale masking-service crashing after upgrade
* [MXS-6035](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6035) Write test success message should be an info message
* [MXS-6033](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-6033) No error or warning when using an unreadable PAM config
* [MXS-6030](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/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](https://app.gitbook.com/s/0pSbu5DcMSW4KwAkUcmX/maxscale-management/mariadb-maxscale-limitations-guide) document.

## Packaging

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

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