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 release. Read more about feature preview releases .
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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 ().
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!
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