MariaDB 10.4.3 Release Notes
Note: This page describes features in the source repository for MariaDB 10.4. 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 10.4 is the current development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.3 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL.
For an overview of MariaDB 10.4 see the What is MariaDB 10.4? page.
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
Notable Changes
Notable changes of this release include:
- MDEV-12484: The unix_socket authentication plugin is now default on Unix systems, which is a major change to authentication in MariaDB
- MDEV-6111: Implementation of the optimizer trace, one can enable the optimizer trace by enabling the system variable optimizer_trace.
- MDEV-18551: The default for eq_range_index_dive_limit is now
200
(previously0
) - MDEV-17903: The optimizer switch flag
optimize_join_buffer_size
now defaults toon
- MDEV-18439: core_file on Windows now defaults to
ON
- MDEV-18608: Histograms are now collected by default.
- MDEV-13916: The JSON_VALID function is automatically used as a CHECK constraint for the JSON data type alias in order to ensure that a valid json document is inserted
- MDEV-18564: wsrep_load_data_splitting is deprecated and now set to
OFF
by default - InnoDB ALTER TABLE fixes: MDEV-18222, MDEV-18256, MDEV-18016, MDEV-18295, MDEV-16849, MDEV-18219
- Mariabackup fixes: MDEV-18194, MDEV-18415, MDEV-18611
- New InnoDB features:
- MDEV-12026: Implement innodb_checksum_algorithm=full_crc32
- MDEV-15563: More Instant VARCHAR extension
- MDEV-15564: Instant collation or charset changes for non-indexed columns
- MDEV-16188: Use in-memory PK filters built from range index scans
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