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# MariaDB MaxScale 2.5.9 Release Notes

Release 2.5.9 is a GA release.

**Released:** 10 Mar 2021

This document describes the changes in release 2.5.9, 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).

### Bug fixes

* [MXS-3428](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3428) Regression in max\_slave\_replication\_lag
* [MXS-3426](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3426) MaxScale with SSL in Azure Cloud not working properly
* [MXS-3419](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3419) Token authentication doesn't perform authorization
* [MXS-3416](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3416) causal\_reads=global returns an unexpected OK packet
* [MXS-3409](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3409) Need more GRANTs to be documented for connecting to xpand direct using xpandmon
* [MXS-3404](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3404) maxscale write in the slave with function
* [MXS-3392](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3392) Reset implementation on failing prepared statement

### 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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