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# MariaDB MaxScale 2.5.29 Release Notes

Release 2.5.29 is a GA release.

**Released:** 25 Oct 2023

This document describes the changes in release 2.5.29, 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](https://jira.mariadb.org/projects/MXS).

### External CVEs resolved.

* [CVE-2022-1586](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1586) Fixed by [MXS-4806](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4806) Update pcre2 to 10.42
* [CVE-2022-1587](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1587) Fixed by [MXS-4806](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4806) Update pcre2 to 10.42
* [CVE-2022-41409](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-41409) Fixed by [MXS-4806](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4806) Update pcre2 to 10.42
* [CVE-2017-7186](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7186) Fixed by [MXS-4804](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4804) Update pcre2 to 10.36
* [CVE-2017-8399](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8399) Fixed by [MXS-4804](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4804) Update pcre2 to 10.36
* [CVE-2017-8786](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8786) Fixed by [MXS-4804](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4804) Update pcre2 to 10.36
* [CVE-2020-7105](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7105) Fixed by [MXS-4757](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4757) Update libhiredis to 1.0.2.
* [CVE-2023-27371](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-27371) Fixed by [MXS-4751](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4751) Update libmicrohttpd to version 0.9.76

### Bug fixes

* [MXS-4807](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4807) MaxScale does not always report the OS version correctly
* [MXS-4756](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4756) GUI caching issue
* [MXS-4749](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4749) log\_throttling should be disabled if log\_info is on
* [MXS-4747](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4747) log\_throttling is hard to modify via MaxCtrl
* [MXS-4738](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4738) The fact that disable\_master\_failback does not work with root\_node\_as\_master is not documented
* [MXS-4735](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4735) Connection IDs are missing from error messages
* [MXS-4724](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4724) slave\_selection\_criteria should accept lowercase version of the values
* [MXS-4717](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4717) information\_schema is not invalidated as needed
* [MXS-4706](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4706) Cache does not invalidate when a table is ALTERed, DROPed or RENAMEd

### 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](https://mariadb.com/downloads/#mariadb_platform-mariadb_maxscale).

### 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](https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale).

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