MariaDB 10.2.1 Release Notes

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Release date: 4 Jul 2016

MariaDB 10.2 is the current development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.1 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL 5.6 and 5.7.

MariaDB 10.2.1 is an Alpha release.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable Changes

This is the second alpha release in the MariaDB 10.2 series.

• Common Table Expressions - WITH
• Support for CHECK CONSTRAINT (MDEV-7563).
• Support for DEFAULT with expressions (MDEV-10134).
• BLOB and TEXT fields can now have a DEFAULT value.
• Lots of restrictions lifted for Virtual computed columns.
• Views now support subqueries in the FROM clause (MDEV-3944)
• Number of supported decimals in DECIMAL has increased from 30 to 38. (MDEV-10138)
• Optimizations for faster connection creation time.
• New variable for setting a directory for storing temporary non-tablespace InnoDB files, innodb_tmpdir.
• Temporary tables can be referred to many times in the same query (MDEV-5535)
• Various other optimizations and refactorings
• XtraDB updated to 5.6.30-76.3
• Innodb updated to 5.6.31
• Performance Schema updated to 5.6.31
• PCRE library updated to 8.39
• TokuDB updated to 5.6.30-76.3
• HeidiSQL updated to 9.3
• Various packages and bintar builds for POWER8 ppc64 and ppc64le architectures now available
• The default value of the binlog_checksum system variable is nowCRC32.
• As per the MariaDB Deprecation Policy, this will be the last release of MariaDB 10.2 for Ubuntu 15.10 "wily"

Notes

Changelog

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.2.1, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.