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Release date: 07 Sep 2012
MariaDB 5.5.27 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 MariaDB 5.5.27, with links to detailed information on each push, see the MariaDB 5.5.27 Changelog.
In most respects MariaDB will work exactly as MySQL: all commands, interfaces, libraries and APIs that exist in MySQL also exist in MariaDB.
includes and MySQL 5.5.27. See the and for more information on the changes in . See for what changed between this and previous MySQL versions.
For , we've merged in XtraDB from Percona Server Percona-Server-5.5.27-rel28.0 and 5.5.27-rel28.1. See the Percona Server and release notes for more information.
In this version of MariaDB we are starting to provide alternative Linux binaries built on a different build machine with a different build toolchain. Binaries created on this box require at least GLIBC_2.14. For continuity, we are still providing binaries built with the same toolchain as previous releases. The alternative binaries have a "(GLIBC_2.14)" label to distinguish them from the others.
This release includes fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
This release fixes numerous cases of the incorrect identifier quoting in the replication code. They were open vulnerabilities, that allowed, to a certain extent, to bypass the database privilege system and modify the data, that one was granted no access to. See for details. ()
Additionally, 5.5.27 includes several other bug fixes and performance enhancements.
See the for full details.
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