The most recent release in the MariaDB 5.5 series is:MariaDB 5.5.68 Download Now
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Release date: 20 Sep 2013
This is a Stable (GA) release. In general this means that there are no known serious bugs, except for those marked as feature requests, that no bugs were fixed since last release that caused a notable code changes, and that we believe the code is ready for general usage (based on bug inflow).
For a description of MariaDB 5.5 see theWhat is MariaDB 5.5? page.
For a list of changes made in this release, with links to detailed information on each push, see the MariaDB 5.5.33 Changelog.
In most respects MariaDB will work exactly as MySQL: all commands, interfaces, libraries and APIs that exist in MySQL also exist in MariaDB.
This is a special bug-fix release for some packaging and other errors in the recent release.
Specific bugs fixed in this release include:
Debian package conflict libmariadbclient18 vs. mariadb-server-5.3
Cannot use system jemalloc
Wrong result with an aggregate function, index and impossible condition inside OR
Crash in with inconsistent .frm from older MariaDB release
Full details on these and other fixes are available in the .
There were issues with the .deb packages in the 5.5.33 release. Before updating with apt-get, check to make sure the mirror you are using has version 5.5.33a (not 5.5.33). To check, run the following commands:
The output will look similar to this (raring will be replaced with whatever version of Ubuntu or Debian you are using):
We've created a page for those who ran into the packaging bugs present in 5.5.33. It has instructions on how to get MariaDB back into a state where it can be upgraded successfully.
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
sudo apt-get update
apt-cache show mariadb-server | grep Versionuser@host:~$
apt-cache show mariadb-server | grep Version
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