MariaDB MaxScale 6.4.2 Release Notes -- 2022-09-02

Release 6.4.2 is a GA release.

This document describes the changes in release 6.4.2, when compared to the previous release in the same series.

If you are upgrading from an older major version of MaxScale, please read the upgrading document for this MaxScale version.

For any problems you encounter, please consider submitting a bug report on our Jira.

Bug fixes

• MXS-4258 Add permission for SHOW DATABASES for Xpand Service to work
• MXS-4240 MXS-4239 readconnroute module routing read queries to inconsistent slave node
• MXS-4239 Maxscale shows replication status as [Slave, Running] even when replication credentials are wrong
• MXS-4237 Schemarouter duble free crash
• MXS-4219 Settings of bootstrap servers are not correctly propagated to dynamic servers
• MXS-4218 Configuration synchronization fails if static global parameters are different
• MXS-4211 MaxScale throws std::out_of_range on invalid listener parameter
• MXS-4209 KILL command doesn't work correctly if persistent connections are enabled
• MXS-4198 MaxScale fails to validate its own certificate when the chain of trust is unknown to OpenSSL
• MXS-4196 Readconnroute load balancing behavior is not well documented
• MXS-4183 Multiplexing fails with "Timed out when waiting for a connection"

Known Issues and Limitations

There are some limitations and known issues within this version of MaxScale. For more information, please refer to the Limitations document.

Packaging

RPM and Debian packages are provided for the supported Linux distributions.

Packages can be downloaded here.

Source Code

The source code of MaxScale is tagged at GitHub with a tag, which is identical with the version of MaxScale. For instance, the tag of version X.Y.Z of MaxScale is maxscale-X.Y.Z. Further, the default branch is always the latest GA version of MaxScale.

The source code is available here.