MariaDB 11.8.0 Release Notes
Release date: Unreleased
Do not use alpha releases in production!
MariaDB 11.8.0 is a single preview release. Features are to be considered preview, and none are guaranteed to make it into MariaDB 11.8.
For an overview of MariaDB 11.8 see the What is MariaDB 11.8? page.
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
Notable Items
Importing
- The mariadb-dump
--no-autocommit
option is now set by default to allow faster data loading by InnoDB, writing only one undo log for the whole operation (MDEV-32250)
GIS
New GIS functions. These functions improve compatibility with MySQL 8.
- ST_Validate (MDEV-34137)
- MBRCoveredBy (MDEV-34138)
- ST_Simplify (MDEV-34141)
- ST_GeoHash (MDEV-34158)
- ST_LatFromGeoHash (MDEV-34159)
- ST_LongFromGeoHash (MDEV-34160)
- ST_PointFromGeoHash (MDEV-34277)
- ST_IsValid (MDEV-34276)
- ST_Collect (MDEV-34278)
Functions
- New FORMAT_BYTES function. Given a byte count, returns a string consisting of a value and the units in a human-readable format (MDEV-31736)
Information Schema
- When querying the information Schema, stored functions that have the same name as a native function no longer generate a warning (MDEV-35437)
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