MariaDB MaxScale 2.4.18 Release Notes -- 2021-11-02

Release 2.4.18 is a GA release.

This document describes the changes in release 2.4.18, 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-3800 Not enough information in server state change messages
• MXS-3609 Some statistics use 32-bit integers
• MXS-3582 [readwritesplit] Failed to execute session command
• MXS-3538 Removal of authenticator_options is not documented in upgrade documents
• MXS-3535 user variable is not collected if it's in join clause
• MXS-3533 MaxScale doesn't advertise the SESSION_TRACK capability
• MXS-3529 Maxscale is not compatible with the latest cmake 3.20
• MXS-3487 Old master connection is left open after transaction migration
• MXS-3415 --export-config uses default file permissions
• MXS-3114 Listener creation via REST API with sockets doesn't work

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 supported the 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.