MariaDB 11.8.0 Release Notes

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Release date: 18 Dec 2024

MariaDB 11.8 is a long-term development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 11.7 with several entirely new features.

MariaDB 11.8.0 is a single preview release. Features are to be considered previews, and none are guaranteed to make it into MariaDB 11.8.

The preview is available as a container quay.io/mariadb-foundation/mariadb-devel:11.8-preview.

For an overview of MariaDB 11.8, see the What is MariaDB 11.8? page.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable Items

Vectors

• New function for calculating either a Euclidean or Cosine distance between two vectors, depending on the underlying index type ()

• aarch64 SIMD instructions now supported ()

Optimizer

• Expanded ()

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  • Optimizer hints did not make it into the final release.

InnoDB

• Fix scalability with multiple threads ()

Importing

• The --no-autocommit option is now set by default to allow faster data loading by InnoDB, writing only one undo log for the whole operation ()

• has a new option --innodb-optimize-keys to delay creation of secondary indexes until after data load, resulting in faster loads. By default. ()

GIS

New GIS functions. These functions improve compatibility with MySQL 8.

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Functions

• New function. Given a byte count, returns a string consisting of a value and the units in a human-readable format ()

Referential Integrity

• now also checks for referential integrity ()

Information Schema

• When querying the , that have the same name as a native function no longer generate a warning ()