MariaDB MaxScale 6.2.3 Release Notes -- 2022-03-09

Release 6.2.3 is a GA release.

This document describes the changes in release 6.2.3, 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-4038 maxctrl reload service does not bypass the users refresh rate limit
• MXS-4035 Cache warns too aggressively of statements that cannot be cached.
• MXS-4030 Query Editor: Y axis dropdown doesn't show accurate table columns
• MXS-4021 Monitor is not shown in MaxGUI's dashboard if the monitor is stopped
• MXS-4011 maxscale.cnf.template on MaxScale 6.x refers to 2.5 documentation
• MXS-4008 Query classifier cache does not properly record all used memory
• MXS-4007 Active operation count is wrong after failed causal read
• MXS-4005 Crash on server failure with causal_reads=local
• MXS-4004 Race condition in KILL command execution
• MXS-4002 KILL commands leave no trace in the log
• MXS-4001 The Cache filter cannot cope with the Redis server closing the connection
• MXS-4000 Binlogrouter creates malformed replication events
• MXS-3988 Document implications of changed auth_all_servers default on schemarouter
• MXS-3984 COM_CHANGE_USER from 'user' to 'user' succeeded on MaxScale yet failed on backends
• MXS-3979 Not all state transitions are written to the log
• MXS-3957 Remove the Don't Limit option for max_rows value of the Query Editor
• MXS-3954 Got below signal 11 error after upgrading maxscale version maxscale 6.2.1
• MXS-3945 Sync marker mismatch while reading Avro file
• MXS-3931 Check certificates with extendedKeyUsage options set for correct purpose flags
• MXS-3808 Improve Rest API performance

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 the supported 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.