MariaDB 11.5.0 Release Notes

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Release date: 18 March 2024

MariaDB 11.5 is an upcoming development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 11.4 with several entirely new features.

MariaDB 11.5.0 is a single preview release. Features are to be considered preview, and none are guaranteed to make it into MariaDB 11.5.

The preview is available as a container quay.io/mariadb-foundation/mariadb-devel:11.5-preview.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

New Features

Temporary files and tables

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• There are two system variables used for controlling this feature:

  • : Limits the temporary space allowance per user

  • : Limits the temporary space allowance for all users.

Data Types

• The range of values was extended. The maximal allowed value for timestamps was '2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC', and is now '2106-02-07 06:28:15 UTC'. This does not change the storage format, and new tables can be read by old MariaDB servers as long as timestamp values are within the old timestamp range. At the moment this is only supported on 64-bit platforms ().

Optimizer

• is now supported for partitioned tables ()

• ANALYZE FORMAT=JSON now ()

Protocol

• Permit bulk implementation to return ALL individual results ()

• Send initial values of system variables in first OK packet ()

Observability

• New in the Information Schema for storing information about users, , and the limits set by (, )

• Add more columns to Information Schema , and tables ()

• Add QUERIES column to Information Schema table ()

• Additional features for Sequences ()

  • permits creating as any type (including ), extending the range

  • Parser accepts larger and smaller values for and

Other

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• Deprecate and ignore the system variable ()

• Change to uca1400_ai_ci, a modern Unicode collation with proper support for SMP characters (including emoji)()

• Parallel dump of multiple databases via with the --dir