MariaDB MaxScale 2.5.8 Release Notes

Release 2.5.8 is a GA release.

Released: 18 Feb 2021

This document describes the changes in release 2.5.8, 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-3408 ASAN reports leaks in the query classifier

• MXS-3404 maxscale write in the slave with function

• MXS-3403 The Cache Filter cannot deal with batched requests

• MXS-3400 maxscale crash with memcache on ubuntu 20

• MXS-3399 QC heap-buffer-overflow

• MXS-3396 Default /etc/maxscale.cnf for MaxScale 2.5 comments direct user to MaxScale 2.4 documents

• MXS-3395 Problems with prepared statements with more than 2^16 columns

• MXS-3380 MaxScale crash loop with cache filter + Redis

• MXS-3366 COM_CHANGE_USER rejected by MaxScale

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.

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.