MariaDB 10.3.7 Release Notes
The most recent release of MariaDB 10.3 is:
MariaDB 10.3.39 Stable (GA) Download Now
Note: This page describes features in the source repository for MariaDB 10.3. There are currently no official packages or binaries available for download which contain the features. If you want to try out any of the new features described here you will need to get and compile the code yourself.
MariaDB 10.3 is the current development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.2 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL.
Do not use non-GA releases on production systems!
For an overview of MariaDB 10.3 see the What is MariaDB 10.3? page.
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
Notable Changes
Notable changes of this release include:
- MyRocks Storage Engine is now Stable (GA)
- Spide Storage Engine is now Stable (GA)
- Two new ALTER TABLE ... ALGORITHM options, INSTANT and NOCOPY, which allow operations that would require any data files to be modified, or that would require rebuilding the clustered index respectively, to be refused rather than potentially perform slowly - MDEV-13134
- The embedded server library now supports SSL when connecting to remote servers.
- New status variables feature_json for monitoring JSON functionality usage and feature_system_versioning for system versioning.
- MDEV-16172 - Remove InnoDB 5.7 version number from MariaDB 10.3 onwards
- Fixes for instant ADD COLUMN: MDEV-14906, MDEV-15060, MDEV-15871, MDEV-16065
- ALTER TABLE improvements, including: MDEV-14168, MDEV-13134 (ALGORITHM=INSTANT, ALGORITHM=NOCOPY)
- Various performance fixes and code cleanup, including MDEV-12218 - Clean up InnoDB parameter validation
- Fixed hangs on shutdown (MDEV-13779) and EXPORT (MDEV-13987)
- As per the MariaDB Deprecation Policy, this will be the last release of MariaDB 10.3 for Debian 7 Wheezy and Fedora 26
For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.3.7, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.
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