MariaDB 10.6.1 Release Notes

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Release date: 21 May 2021

MariaDB 10.6 is the current development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.5 with several entirely new features.

MariaDB 10.6.1 is a Beta release.

Do not use beta releases in production!

For an overview of MariaDB 10.6 see the What is MariaDB 10.6? page.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable Changes

Notable changes of this release include:

Atomic DDL

Replication, Galera and Binlog

  • The delay between binary log purges can now be specified with much greater precision. The system variable binlog_expire_logs_seconds is introduced as a form of alias for expire_logs_days, which now accepts a precision of 1/1000000 days (MDEV-19371)
  • Allow transition from unencrypted to TLS Galera cluster communication without cluster downtime (MDEV-22131)
  • DDL information logged on all Galera cluster nodes if wsrep_debug is set to SERVER and wsrep_OSU_method is 'TOI' (MDEV-9609)

Oracle Compatibility

General

  • Character set utf8 has been renamed to utf8mb3. For compatibility reasons, utf8 remains as an alias for utf8mb3 when old_mode=UTF8_IS_UTF8MB3 (default) (MDEV-8334)

Changelog

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.6.1, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.

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