An upgrading guide for unmaintained versions of MariaDB Community Server.
This page includes details for upgrading from MariaDB 10.11 to . It is currently incomplete. Note that MariaDB 10.11 is maintained for five years, while is a short-term maintenance release, only maintained for one year.
For Windows, see Upgrading MariaDB on Windows.
For MariaDB Galera Cluster, see Upgrading from MariaDB 10.6 to MariaDB 10.7 with Galera Cluster instead.
Before you upgrade, it would be best to take a backup of your database. This is always a good idea to do before an upgrade. We would recommend mariadb-backup.
The suggested upgrade procedure is:
Modify the repository configuration, so the system's package manager installs . For example,
On Debian, Ubuntu, and other similar Linux distributions, see for more information.
On RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, and other similar Linux distributions, see for more information.
On SLES, OpenSUSE, and other similar Linux distributions, see for more information.
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Uninstall the old version of MariaDB.
On Debian, Ubuntu, and other similar Linux distributions, execute the following:sudo apt-get remove mariadb-server
On RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, and other similar Linux distributions, execute the following:sudo yum remove MariaDB-server
On SLES, OpenSUSE, and other similar Linux distributions, execute the following:sudo zypper remove MariaDB-server
Install the new version of MariaDB.
On Debian, Ubuntu, and other similar Linux distributions, see for more information.
On RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, and other similar Linux distributions, see for more information.
On SLES, OpenSUSE, and other similar Linux distributions, see for more information.
Make any desired changes to configuration options in , such as my.cnf. This includes removing any options that are no longer supported.
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Run .
mariadb-upgrade does two things:
Ensures that the system tables in the database are fully compatible with the new version.
Does a very quick check of all tables and marks them as compatible with the new version of MariaDB .
On most servers upgrading from 10.11 should be painless. However, there are some things that have changed which could affect an upgrade:
The following options should be removed or renamed if you use them in your :
The following options have been deprecated. They have not yet been removed, but will be in a future version, and should ideally no longer be used.
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Has been set for many releases. Unsetting (the original InnoDB default) is no longer useful
Mapped it to 4 new boolean parameters that can be changed while the server is running
Use without admin
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3
DOUBLE_PREC_HB
JSON_HB
InnoDB Defragmentation is not particularly useful and causes a maintenance burden.