MariaDB MaxScale 6.4.14 Release Notes -- 2024-02-09

Release 6.4.14 is a GA release.

This document describes the changes in release 6.4.14, 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.

New Features

• MXS-4862 ssl_version should specify minimum version

Bug fixes

• MXS-4956 Session commands ignore delayed_retry_timeout
• MXS-4947 Tables in information_schema are treated as a normal tables
• MXS-4945 GUI doesn't validate object name uniqueness accurately
• MXS-4934 Use-after-free after service deletion
• MXS-4926 History length of sessions is not visible in the REST-API
• MXS-4924 Very fast client and server may end up busy-looping a worker
• MXS-4923 The "New messages available" button in the GUI Logs Archive does not disappear after being clicked.
• MXS-4922 Memory growth for long-running sessions that use COM_CHANGE_USER
• MXS-4921 Memory growth for long-running sessions that use prepared statements
• MXS-4913 Memory leak when closing SSL connection
• MXS-4912 Query classifier cache total-size book-keeping may be wrong
• MXS-4910 readconnroute performance regression in 6.4
• MXS-4908 Undefined behavior with module commands that take no arguments
• MXS-4906 MonitorWorker::call_run_one_tick() called more often than intended
• MXS-4900 maxctrl show qc_cache can easily overwhelm MaxScale
• MXS-4896 Reducing the size of the query classifier cache does not cause excess entries to be freed.
• MXS-4895 QC cache memory accounting on CentOS 7 is wrong
• MXS-4865 5.5.5- prefix should not be added if all backends are MariaDB 11

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.