MariaDB MaxScale 6.4.3 Release Notes -- 2022-10-14

Release 6.4.3 is a GA release.

This document describes the changes in release 6.4.3, 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-4321 Error from missing --secure option is not helpful
• MXS-4313 MaxCtrl misinterprets some arguments
• MXS-4312 REST API accepts empty resource IDs
• MXS-4307 Parser can't recognize convert function parameters and cause wrong routing decision
• MXS-4304 MariaDB-Monitor spams log with connection errors if server is both [Maintenance] and [Down]
• MXS-4290 Maxscale masking filter returns parsing error on SELECT with very long WHERE
• MXS-4289 Transaction starts on wrong server with autocommit=0
• MXS-4283 Race condition in KILL command processing
• MXS-4282 Servers that are [Down] may have [Slave of External Server]
• MXS-4280 qc_sqlite does not properly handle a LIMIT clause
• MXS-4279 "sub" field not set for JWTs
• MXS-4275 MaxScale tries to start up if --export-config is used and a cached cluster configuration is present
• MXS-4269 UPDATE with user variable modification is treated as a session command
• MXS-4267 NULL values are exported as empty strings when using CSV format
• MXS-4260 Maxscale crashes frequently while performing load testing
• MXS-4259 warning: [xpandmon] 'late' is an unknown sub-state for a Xpand node
• MXS-4247 Listener created with encryption even if ssl=false is passed
• MXS-4231 Sometimes the date and time are missing in the query log
• MXS-4227 MaxCtrl incompatibility with MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true is not documented
• MXS-4221 GUI does not show other services used by services
• MXS-4156 Update documentation on required monitor privileges
• MXS-4094 Allow empty token when client is replying to AuthSwitchRequest
• MXS-4083 CPU utilization high on MaxScale host

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.