MariaDB 5.3.0 Release Notes
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Release date: 25 July 2011
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MariaDB 5.3.0 is a [release-criteria|Beta release]. In general this means that there are no known serious bugs, except for those marked as feature requests. MariaDB 5.3 radically improves performance for subqueries as well as for joins and single-table queries over large data sets.
For a detailed description of MariaDB 5.3 see the [what-is-mariadb-53|What is MariaDB 5.3] page.
For a list of every change made in MariaDB 5.3.0, including the various bugs that were fixed and links to detailed information on each push, see the [mariadb-530-changelog|MariaDB 5.3.0 Changelog]. These changes are compared against MariaDB 5.2, and it is worth noting that MariaDB 5.3 is based on the MySQL 5.1 releases.