MariaDB 10.2 is a previous stable series of MariaDB. It is an evolution
of MariaDB 10.1 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else
and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL 5.6 and 5.7.
Upgrading from 10.2 versions earlier than 10.2.17 is highly recommended
for all users due to bug which caused serious stability
issues with earlier versions. See the bug issue page for more information.
When upgrading from or earlier to or higher,
running is required due to changes introduced in .
For a complete list of changes made in with links to detailed
information on each push, see the .
MDEV-20102: When the ctas from a big table is interrupted ,then you can't drop or recreate the table
MDEV-19292: InnoDB's row size calculations were fixed, which might result in "Row size too large" errors when creating or altering tables with lots columns. This can occur even if previous MariaDB releases did not throw errors for the same tables. Some workarounds are listed at .
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