MariaDB 10.7.0 Release Notes

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Release date: 17 Sep 2021

Do not use alpha releases in production!

MariaDB 10.7 is the current development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.6 with several entirely new features.

MariaDB 10.7.0 is not a single release, but is instead a number of feature preview releases based on feature branches. Each should be considered as having a maturity of an Alpha release. Read more about feature preview releases here.

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Remember, these features are in separate preview packages. The subsection header text corresponds to the preview package name.

Notable changes of this series of releases include:

Provider Plugins

• Five provider plugins (bzip2, lzma, lz4, lzo, snappy) provide to the server and storage engines (, ).

SFORMAT

• function for arbitrary text formatting (, ).

UUID

• New (, )

Natural Sort

• function (, ).

JSON Histograms

• Histograms in the statistics tables are more precise and stored as JSON, not binary (, , ). Note that this feature was not included in .

Convert Partitions

• ALTER TABLE ... CONVERT PARTITION .. TO TABLE (, ), and

• ALTER TABLE ... CONVERT TABLE ... TO PARTITION ... () as an easy way to convert tables to partitions and back in one command, instead of a sequence of CREATE/EXCHANGE/DROP

• ALTER TABLE .. ADD PARTITION allows to omit the redundant PARTITION keyword ()

Password Reuse

• The is a new password validation plugin that prevents the new password from being the same as the one being used during the configurable retention period. (, ).

InnoDB Bulk Insert

• In bulk insert, pre-sort and build indexes one page at a time ()

Misc. Features

• function to check for equality between JSON objects ().

• function, which recursively sorts keys and removes spaces ()

• Improve simple multibyte collation performance on the ASCII range ().

• Add option to as of specified timestamp ().

Do not use alpha releases on production systems! For a complete list of changes made in , with links to detailed information on each push, see the .

Do not use alpha releases in production!