MariaDB 11.6.0 Release Notes

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Release date: 26 June 2024

MariaDB 11.6 is a rolling release. It is an evolution of MariaDB 11.5 with several entirely new features.

MariaDB 11.6.0 is a single preview release. Features are to be considered preview, and none are guaranteed to make it into MariaDB 11.6.

The preview is available as a container quay.io/mariadb-foundation/mariadb-devel:11.6-preview.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable Items

Character Sets

• The default has been changed from latin1 to utf8mb4 ()

Backup and Restore

• Added the --dir option to , allowing one to restore all tables from a backup directory created using ()

  • Added the related --database, --ignore-database, --table and --ignore-table options.

Optimizer

• Improve selectivity computations for multi-part keys ()

Syntax

• Single-table now support table aliases ()

Authentication

• ()

• Extend to support authentication_string ()

Replication

• New definition for Seconds_Behind_Master ()

  • Added three variables to

  • New

General

• Set thread names for MariaDB Server threads ()

Variables

• For a list of all new variables, see and .