MariaDB 10.6.0 Release Notes

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Release date: 26 Apr 2021

MariaDB 10.6 is the current development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.5 with several entirely new features.

MariaDB 10.6.0 is an Alpha release.

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Notable Changes

This is the first alpha release in the series.

Notable changes of this release include:

SQL Syntax

• ()

• Implement SQL-standard ()

• Add syntax (InnoDB only) ()

• , used to extract JSON data based on a JSON path expression and to return it as a relational table ()

Oracle Compatibility

• Anonymous (no AS clause) are permitted in

Storage Engines

• has been removed ()

• has been removed ()

InnoDB

• Optimization to speed up inserts into an empty table ()

• Make ()

• now directly reflects the filesystem, and has been removed ()

• innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT

Replication, Galera and Binlog

• Increase limit to 255, user to 128 ()

• The system variable, for turning on WSREP features which are not part of default behavior (including the experimental Aria replication) (, , )

Sys Schema

• Bundle , a collection of views, functions and procedures to help administrators get insight into database usage. ()

Performance Schema

• Merged replication instrumentation and tables (, )

General

• Do not resend unchanged resultset metadata for prepared statements ()

• now listens on both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses ()

• Support systemd socket activation ()

• For the , support AD or local group name, and SIDs on Windows ()

Galera

• variable for turning on WSREP features which are not part of default behavior.

• has been deprecated. Use instead.

InnoDB Variables

The following deprecated variables have been removed ():

Changelog

For a complete list of changes made in , with links to detailed information on each push, see the .

Contributors

For a full list of contributors to , see the .

Do not use alpha releases in production!