MariaDB 11.6.1 Release Notes

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Release date: 14 Aug 2024

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

MariaDB 11.6.1 is a Release Candidate (RC) release.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable Items

Storage Engines

InnoDB

• ALTER TABLE...ALGORITHM=COPY now builds indexes more efficiently (MDEV-33087)
  • Unsetting the innodb_alter_copy_bulk system variable restores the old behavior.
• Correctly terminate transaction early with ER_LOCK_TABLE_FULL when lock memory is growing (MDEV-34167)
• Alter operation on redundant table no longer aborts the server (MDEV-34222)
• Fix MariaDB crash with SIGILL because the OS does not support AVX512 (MDEV-34565)
• Fix InnoDB: Failing assertion: stat_n_leaf_pages > 0 in ha_innobase::estimate_rows_upper_bound (MDEV-34474)
• wait_for_read in buf_page_get_low no longer hurts performance (MDEV-34458)
• Fix InnoDB: Assertion failure in file ./storage/innobase/page/page0zip.cc line 4211 (MDEV-34357)

Aria

• Fix Aria index corruption (MDEV-34522)

Spider

• UBSAN: runtime error: applying non-zero offset in spider_free_mem and SIGSEGV in spider_free_mem on SELECT (MDEV-31475)
• SIGSEGV in ha_resolve_storage_engine_name, UBSAN: runtime error: index 4294967295 out of bounds for type 'st_plugin_int *[64]' (MDEV-32487)
• SIGSEGV in spider_db_conn::fin_loop_check, and ASAN: heap-use-after-free in spider_db_mbase::fin_loop_check on SHOW TABLE STATUS (MDEV-34541)
• SIGSEGV in ha_spider::lock_tables on BEGIN after table lock (MDEV-29962)
• SIGSEGV in spider_conn_first_link_idx and others on DELETE, INSERT and SELECT (MDEV-32492)
• Spider: Crashes, asserts, hangs, memory corruptions and ASAN heap-use-after-free's (MDEV-27902)
• Spider: @@insert_id 128 to TINYINT: Assertion `!is_set() || (m_status == DA_OK_BULK && is_bulk_op())' failed. (MDEV-28105)
• ASAN errors in spider_db_free_result after partition DDL (MDEV-29027)
• Server crashes when calling spider UDF after aria_encrypt_tables is enabled (MDEV-34682)

Partitioning

• SIGSEGV in parse_engine_part_options on INSERT, SELECT or ALTER (MDEV-34421)
• Assertion `auto_increment_value' failed in ha_partition::info on INSERT into MEMORY table (MDEV-24610)

Character Sets

• On startup: UBSAN: applying zero offset to null pointer in my_copy_fix_mb from strings/ctype-mb.c and other locations (MDEV-34226)
• On startup: UBSAN: runtime error: applying zero offset to null pointer in skip_trailing_space and my_hash_sort_utf8mb3_general1400_nopad_as_ci (MDEV-34187)
• SHOW CREATE DATABASE statement crashes the server when db name contains some unicode characters, ASAN stack-buffer-overflow (MDEV-32376)
• Wrong result set with utf8mb4_danish_ci and BNLH join (MDEV-34417)

Optimizer

• On startup: UBSAN: runtime error: applying non-zero offset in JOIN::make_aggr_tables_info in sql/sql_select.cc (MDEV-34227)
• Crash after killing query while it is processed by test_quick_select (MDEV-30651)
• Extend condition normalization to include 'NOT a' (MDEV-19520)
• Constant subquery causing a crash in pushdown optimization (MDEV-29363)
• Crash when pushing condition with CHARSET()/COERCIBILITY() into derived table (MDEV-33010)
• 2nd execution name resolution problem with pushdown into unions (MDEV-34506)
• Assertion `(key_part->key_part_flag & 4) == 0' failed key_hashnr (MDEV-34580)
• Crash caused by query containing constant having clause (MDEV-23983)
• Using NAME_CONST() (or executing query from the stored procedure and referring to a local variable) changes the plan and may make execution slower (MDEV-33971)
• ORDER BY DESC causes ROWID Filter optimization performance degradation (MDEV-33875)

Replication

• Auto-generated DELETE from HEAP table no longer breaks replication (MDEV-25607)
• Fix replication failure when XA transactions are used where the replica has replicate_do_db set and the client has touched a different database when running DML such as inserts. (MDEV-33921)
• Fix replication error when CHANGE MASTER TO is used in conjunction with a password longer than 41 ascii characters (MDEV-23857)
• The --init-rpl-role option is utilized to avoid a possible error state in semisync recovery (MDEV-33465)

Backup

• Hide password passed on commandline from xtrabackup_info (MDEV-34434)

Galera

• Galera updated to 26.4.19
• galera_gtid_2_cluster: Assertion `thd->wsrep_next_trx_id() != (0x7fffffffffffffffLL * 2ULL + 1)' (MDEV-32633)
• table gtid_slave_pos entries never been deleted with wsrep_gtid_mode = 0 (MDEV-34170)
• Deadlock found when trying to get lock during applying (MDEV-31658)
• Change error code for Galera unkillable threads (MDEV-12008)
• 10.11.8 cluster becomes inconsistent when using composite primary key and partitioning (MDEV-34269)
• wsrep_sst_mariabackup use /tmp dir during SST rather then user defined tmpdir (MDEV-32158)

Error Log

• server_uid system variable added, and value added to the error log at startup (MDEV-34494)

General

• IMPORT TABLESPACE no longer unnecessarily traverses tablespaces list (MDEV-34670)
• Fix unknown variable defaults-group-suffix= with mariadb-secure-installation (MDEV-33265)
• mariadb-install-db no longer hangs on macOS (MDEV-34129)
• Fix transaction termination with ER_LOCK_TABLE_FULL when lock memory is growing (MDEV-34167)
• Disable new connections in case of fatal signal (MDEV-34475)
• Control over memory allocated for SP/PS (MDEV-14959)
• Triggers now work correctly with bulk insert (MDEV-24411)
• Fix assertion `table->field[0]->ptr >= table->record[0] && table->field[0]->ptr <= table->record[0] + table->s->reclength' failed in void handler::assert_icp_limitations(uchar*) (MDEV-34632)
• sandbox mode \- now compatible with --binary-mode (MDEV-34203)

Changelog

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 11.6.1, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.

Contributors

For a full list of contributors to MariaDB 11.6.1, see the MariaDB Foundation release announcement.