MariaDB MaxScale 2.5.14 Release Notes -- 2021-07-21

Release 2.5.14 is a GA release.

This document describes the changes in release 2.5.14, 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-3650 Maxscale crashes while logging to GUI
• MXS-3623 Race condition in persistent connections
• MXS-3622 Backend connection isn't closed right after authentication failure
• MXS-3617 writeq throttling can lose response packets
• MXS-3615 Clarify session_track_system_variables requirement for readwritesplit's causal_reads parameter
• MXS-3595 Listener subresource returns wrong response on service-listener mismatch
• MXS-3590 MaxCtrl documentation for the reload command is broken
• MXS-3588 BULK pipelining error
• MXS-3578 Unexpected result state when using connection_keepalive
• MXS-3574 Output examples in the REST API documentation are out of date
• MXS-2890 5.5.5 prefix is always added even with version_string=8.0.16

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.