Announcing MariaDB 10.0.0 Alpha

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.0! This is an alpha release. MariaDB 10.0 is the current development version of MariaDB. It is built on the MariaDB 5.5 series with backported features from MySQL 5.6 and entirely new features not found anywhere else. See “Explanation on MariaDB 10.0” and “What comes in between MariaDB now and MySQL 5.6?” for more information on why we’re calling this series “MariaDB 10.0”. This is the first 10.0-based release, and we are releasing it now to get it into the hands of any who might want to test it. Not all features planned for the MariaDB 10.0 series are included in this release. Additional features will be pushed in future releases. It should go without saying but:Do not use alpha releases on production systems! See the Release Notes and Changelog for information on this release in particular and What is MariaDB 10.0? for more information MariaDB 10.0 in general. Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!