MariaDB MaxScale 2.5.27 Release Notes -- 2023-07-27

Release 2.5.27 is a GA release.

This document describes the changes in release 2.5.27, 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.

New Features

• MXS-4541 Provide a way to show details about all supported MaxScale modules via REST API and/or MaxCtrl

Bug fixes

• MXS-4676 REST-API documentation is wrong about which server parameters can be modified
• MXS-4670 The fact that readconnroute doesn't block writes with router_options=slave is not documented
• MXS-4665 Listener creation error is misleading
• MXS-4659 Cache filter hangs if statement consists of multiple packets.
• MXS-4657 Add human readable message text to API errors like 404
• MXS-4656 Setting session_track_trx_state=true leads to OOM kiled.
• MXS-4642 Document that the Xpand service-user requires "show databases" privilege
• MXS-4617 expire_log_duration not working

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.