MariaDB 10.2.1 Release Notes
Note: This page describes features in the source repository for MariaDB 10.2. There are currently no official packages or binaries available for download which contain the features. If you want to try out any of the new features described here you will need to get and compile the code yourself.
MariaDB 10.2 is the current development 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.
MariaDB 10.2.1 will be an Alpha release.
Do not use alpha releases on production systems!
For an overview of MariaDB 10.2 see the What is MariaDB 10.2 page.
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
Notable Changes
This will be the second alpha release in the MariaDB 10.2 series.
- Common Table Expressions - WITH
- Support for CHECK CONSTRAINT (MDEV-7563).
- Support for DEFAULT with expressions (MDEV-10134).
- BLOB and TEXT fields can now have a
DEFAULT
value. - Lots of restrictions lifted for Virtual computed columns.
Notes
Do not use alpha releases on production systems!
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