# MariaDB MaxScale 2.5.2 Release Notes

Release 2.5.2 is a GA release.

**Released:** 14 Aug 2020

This document describes the changes in release 2.5.2, when compared to the previous release in the same series.

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

### New Features

* [MXS-3099](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3099) Add AddNode/RemoveNode to the Columnstore Monitor
* [MXS-2383](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-2383) Support PAM authentications involving more than simple password exchanges

### Bug fixes

### 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 supported the Linux distributions.

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

### 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](https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale).