MariaDB 11.3.0 Release Notes
Release date: 20 September 2023
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MariaDB 11.3 is a current short-term development series of MariaDB, and will be maintained for one year after its Generally Available release. It is an evolution of MariaDB 11.2 with several entirely new features.
MariaDB 11.3.0 is a single preview release. Features are to be considered preview, and none are guaranteed to make it into MariaDB 11.3.
The preview is available as a container quay.io/mariadb-foundation/mariadb-devel:11.3-preview.
For an overview of MariaDB 11.3 see the What is MariaDB 11.3? page.
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
Connection Redirection
- Added a redirect mechanism using the redirect_url system variable (MDEV-15935)
- At the moment client-side support is missing
InnoDB
- Shrink temporary tablespaces without restart by setting the innodb_truncate_temporary_tablespace_now system variable. (MDEV-28699)
Replication
- Add keywords "SQL_BEFORE_GTIDS" and "SQL_AFTER_GTIDS" for START SLAVE UNTIL (MDEV-27247). SQL_BEFORE_GTIDS stops the replica when it sees gtids of the option's argument list, without executing them.
SSL/TLS
- SSL is now enabled in the server by default. No configuration necessary, if no server certificate was provided a self-signed certificate will be automatically generated by the server (MDEV-31856).
- Clients now can validate self-signed server certificates if the mysql_native_password or ed25519 authentication is used and account password is not empty (MDEV-31855).
- Clients now require SSL and have
--ssl-verify-server-cert
enabled by default (MDEV-31857). - Replication clients do that too,
MASTER_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT
is enabled by default. - Use
--disable-ssl
or--disable-ssl-verify-server-cert
to revert to the old behavior. - Clients can use new command line options
--tls-fp
and--tls-fplist
to verify the server certificate by its fingerprint
Data Types
- INET4 data types can now be cast into INET6 types (MDEV-31626)
- This means, INET4 values can be compared with INET6 values and can be inserted into INET6 columns, the server can automatically convert INET4 value into INET6 as needed.
Functions
- Key derivation function KDF for generating good encryption keys for AES_ENCRYPT (MDEV-31474)
Date and Time
- DATE_FORMAT function can now print the current time zone abbreviation and current time zone offset from UTC with
%Z
and%z
format specifiers. (MDEV-31684)
Optimizer
- Queries like UCASE(varchar_col)=... can now use an index on
varchar_col
if its collation is case insensitive. An optimizer_switch option,sargable_casefold=ON
, has been added to enable this optimization. (MDEV-31496)
Privileges
- Add a new database-level privilege,
SHOW CREATE ROUTINE
that allows to see the routine definition even if the user isn't the routine owner (MDEV-29167)
Processlist
- Added a
SENT_ROWS
column to the Information Schema PROCESSLIST table, as well as extended the display size for the columns in processlist to ensure that most results will fit in display (MDEV-3953)
Application-Time Periods
- Add views for periods in information_schema (MDEV-22597), in particular
- New view
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PERIODS
- New view
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_PERIOD_USAGE
- New columns
IS_SYSTEM_TIME_PERIOD_START
andIS_SYSTEM_TIME_PERIOD_END
in theINFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
view
OLD_MODE
- Setting a non-default old_mode value will now always issue a deprecation warning (MDEV-31811)
Mariabackup
- mariabackup --innobackupex mode has been deprecated (MDEV-31505)
Spider
- The Spider storage engine now supports table options instead of having to encode them in COMMENT/CONNECTION strings. When any table option is specified, Spider will ignore COMMENT/CONNECTION strings at the same table/partition/subpartition. A new variable spider_ignore_comment is introduced to ignore them globally at all levels (table/partition/subpartition). Another variable spider_suppress_comment_ignored_warning is introduced to suppress warnings when spider ignores COMMENT/CONNECTION strings. (MDEV-28856)
Removed
The following deprecated features and system variables have been removed (MDEV-32104):
- debug (deprecated since MariaDB 5.5.37)
- sr_YU locale (deprecated since MariaDB 10.0.11)
- "engine_condition_pushdown" in optimizer_switch (deprecated since MariaDB 10.1.1)
- date_format, datetime_format, time_format, max_tmp_tables (deprecated since MariaDB 10.1.2)
- wsrep_causal_reads (deprecated since MariaDB 10.1.3)
- "parser" in mroonga table comment (deprecated since MariaDB 10.2.11)
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