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MariaDB 11.6.0 Release Notes

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Release date: Unreleased

Do not use alpha releases in production!

MariaDB 11.6 is a rolling release. It is an evolution of MariaDB 11.5 with several entirely new features.

MariaDB 11.6.0 is a single preview release. Features are to be considered preview, and none are guaranteed to make it into MariaDB 11.6.

For an overview of MariaDB 11.6 see the What is MariaDB 11.6? page.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable Items

  • The default character set has been changed from latin1 to utf8mb4 (MDEV-19123)
  • Automatic SST user account management (MDEV-31809)
  • Set thread names for MariaDB Server threads (MDEV-32537)
  • new auth plugin (MDEV-32618)
  • Extend Unix socket authentication to support authentication_string (MDEV-33479)
  • Add option --dir to mariadb-import (MDEV-33627)
  • Improve selectivity computations for multi-part keys (MDEV-33697)
  • New definition for Seconds_Behind_Master (MDEV-33856)
  • DELETE (single table) to support table aliases (MDEV-33988)

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