MariaDB MaxScale 23.08.2 Release Notes -- 2023-10-30

Release 23.08.2 is a GA release.

This document describes the changes in release 23.08.2, 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.

External CVEs resolved.

• CVE-2022-1586 Fixed by MXS-4806 Update pcre2 to 10.42
• CVE-2022-1587 Fixed by MXS-4806 Update pcre2 to 10.42
• CVE-2022-41409 Fixed by MXS-4806 Update pcre2 to 10.42

New Features

• MXS-4759 Force failover flag

Bug fixes

• MXS-4831 Missing SQL error in server state change messages
• MXS-4829 Query Editor doesn't assign active database to existing query tabs
• MXS-4822 Chart pane width issue in Query Editor
• MXS-4821 Multi-statement detection works differently on non-AVX2 CPUs
• MXS-4817 maxscale crashes on maxsimd::generic::is_multi_stmt_imp
• MXS-4815 @@last_gtid and @@last_insert_id are treated differently
• MXS-4814 GTIDs used by causal_reads=global cannot be reset without restarting MaxScale
• MXS-4812 More than one primary database in a monitor results in errors in MaxScale GUI
• MXS-4811 Error handling differences between running maxctrl directly or in a subshell
• MXS-4810 --timeout doesn't work with multiple values in --hosts
• MXS-4808 connection_metadata checks for the wrong capability bit
• MXS-4807 MaxScale does not always report the OS version correctly
• MXS-4799 ConfigManager may spam the log with warnings
• MXS-4797 NullFilter has not been extended to support all routing enumeration values.
• MXS-4792 Semi-sync replication through MaxScale causes errors on STOP SLAVE
• MXS-4790 Log version after log rotation
• MXS-4788 Galeramon should use gtid_binlog_pos if gtid_current_pos is empty
• MXS-4782 Kafkacdc logs warnings about the configuration
• MXS-4781 cooperative_replication works even if cluster parameter is not used
• MXS-4780 Shutdown may hang if cooperative_replication is used
• MXS-4778 Aborts due to SystemD watchdog should tell if a DNS lookup was in progress
• MXS-4777 Maxscale crash due to systemd timeout
• MXS-4776 Sescmd target selection is sub-optimal with lazy_connect
• MXS-4775 KafkaCDC: current_gtid.txt is moving but is behind
• MXS-4772 Config sync status leaves origin field empty on restart
• MXS-4771 Problem while linking libnosqlprotocol.so
• MXS-4750 dynamic_node_detection=false does not work with server hostname, needs IP
• MXS-4743 switchover-force should ignore replication delay
• MXS-4718 Add replication_custom_options to enable replication TLS certification check
• MXS-4686 Undefined behavior in ed25519 plugin
• MXS-4604 Qlafilter doesn't handle pipelined queries correctly
• MXS-4562 When MaxScalle is installed from tarball and starded without -d option --basedir=. is not parsed properly and full directory needs to be specified
• MXS-4538 No valid servers in cluster 'MariaDB-Monitor'
• MXS-4457 Duplicate values in servers are silently ignored

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.