MariaDB MaxScale 6.4.7 Release Notes -- 2023-05-24

Release 6.4.7 is a GA release.

This document describes the changes in release 6.4.7, 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-4615 Partially executed multi-result queries are not treated as partial results
• MXS-4614 Query classifier does not recognize BEGIN NOT ATOMIC ... END
• MXS-4611 Readwritesplit prefers idle primary over busy replicas
• MXS-4602 Qlafilter logs responses from non-matched queries
• MXS-4599 AVX instructions end up being executed on startup
• MXS-4596 Query canonicalization does not work on scientific numbers
• MXS-4595 maxctrl classify sends malformed SQL
• MXS-4586 transaction_replay_max_size default is 1GiB instead of 1MiB
• MXS-4560 Not all passwords were obfuscated in the maxctrl report
• MXS-4551 qlafilter with options=extended does not log query nor date
• MXS-4550 Regular expression documentation is inaccurate and lacking
• MXS-4548 The statement canonicalizer cannot handle comments within statements
• MXS-4502 KB pages reference mysqlauth and mysqlauth is deprecated for mariadbauth

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.