MariaDB 10.5.0 Release Notes
The most recent release of MariaDB 10.5 is:
MariaDB 10.5.24 Stable (GA) Download Now
Alternate download from mariadb.org
Note: This page describes features in the source repository for MariaDB 10.5. 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 10.5 will be the next development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.4 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL.
MariaDB 10.5.0 will be an Alpha release.
For an overview of MariaDB 10.5 see the What is MariaDB 10.5? page.
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
Notable Changes
This will be the first alpha release in the MariaDB 10.5 series.
Notable changes of this release include:
S3 Storage Engine
- S3 Storage Engine, a read-only storage engine that stores its data in Amazon S3 (MDEV-17841).
- The Aria max key length is now 2000 bytes, compared to 1000 bytes in MyISAM.
Thread Pool
- Information Schema tables (THREADPOOL_GROUPS, THREADPOOL_QUEUES and THREADPOOL_STATS) for internals of generic threadpool (MDEV-19313).
InnoDB
- innodb_checksum_algorithm now defaults to
full_crc32
(MDEV-19534). - innodb_checksums has been removed (MDEV-19534).
- innodb_log_checksums has been deprecated (MDEV-19543).
- innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog has been removed (MDEV-19544).
- innodb_stats_sample_pages has been removed (MDEV-19551).
- innodb_undo_logs has been deprecated (MDEV-19570).
- innodb_rollback_segments has been removed (MDEV-19570).
Binary Log
- Extended binlog metadata (MDEV-20477)
General
- Switch Perl DBI scripts from DBD::mysql to DBD::MariaDB driver (MDEV-19755)
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