MariaDB MaxScale 2.5.3 Release Notes -- 2020-08-31

Release 2.5.3 is a GA release.

This document describes the changes in release 2.5.3, when compared to the previous release in the same series.

For any problems you encounter, please consider submitting a bug report on our Jira.

New Features

• MXS-3111 MaxGui should show what module a monitor is using
• MXS-3095 kafkaCDC DML events not include table_schema,table_name information
• MXS-3071 Display filters and listeners on the dashboard page of MaxGui
• MXS-2615 Add expire_log_days to BinlogRouter

Bug fixes

• MXS-3126 Crash in RWSplitSession::get_slave_backend
• MXS-3125 User account fetch should obey ssl_version and check certificate
• MXS-3124 Debug assert with COM_STMT_EXECUTE
• MXS-3121 At SIGSEGV time, the statement currently being parsed should be logged.
• MXS-3120 Crash in qc_sqlite.
• MXS-3115 Error loading kubernetes mounted cnf
• MXS-3114 Listener creation via REST API with sockets doesn't work
• MXS-3113 No message in new log after rotate
• MXS-3109 MaxScale shutdowns after creating a filter using throttlefilter module without assigning throttling_duration value
• MXS-3106 Cannot assign requested address
• MXS-3105 maxctrl list servers , master's gtid is empty , why?
• MXS-3104 binlog router Router Diagnostics empty
• MXS-3103 Update service relationships with type 'servers' causes all filters of that service being unlinked
• MXS-3101 getpeername()' failed on file descriptor
• MXS-3100 Potential memory leak
• MXS-3098 static assertion failed: duration must be a specialization of std::chrono::duration
• MXS-3097 Connection throttling doesn't work
• MXS-3093 Client side certificates for secure REST API fails
• MXS-3090 default_value for some types is a string
• MXS-3089 Backend not closed on failed session command
• MXS-3084 DELETE of services with force=yes doesn't work
• MXS-3083 api_key and local_address use bad default values
• MXS-3081 interactive mode for maxpasswd
• MXS-3079 MaxScale automatically assigns port value as 3306 after creating a server that using socket
• MXS-3078 Defer loading of modules until they are needed
• MXS-3076 Timers stop working during shutdown
• MXS-3073 Type value for /maxscale/modules endpoint is module
• MXS-3069 Unnecessary AuthSwitchRequest with old clients

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.