MariaDB 5.3.1 Release Notes
The most recent release in the MariaDB 5.3 series is: MariaDB 5.3.12
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Release date: 10 Sep 2011
MariaDB 5.3.1 is a 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 5.3 page.
Compared to MariaDB 5.3.0, MariaDB 5.3.1 is a bug-fix release. It is the second beta release of the 5.3 series and fixes bugs found in the initial 5.3.0 beta release.
For a list of every change made in MariaDB 5.3.1, with links to detailed information on each push, see the MariaDB 5.3.1 Changelog. It is worth noting that MariaDB 5.3 is built on MariaDB 5.2, MariaDB 5.1, and MySQL 5.1.
In most respects MariaDB will work exactly as MySQL: all commands, interfaces, libraries and APIs that exist in MySQL also exist in MariaDB.
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