MariaDB Enterprise Server Q3 2024 Maintenance Releases with Backported Features

Posted on September 9, 2024 by
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New maintenance releases for MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.6.19-15 and 10.5.26-20 are now available. These releases include new backported features.

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Backported Features

New JSON Features have been backported from MariaDB Community Server to MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5 and 10.6 after reaching maturity in MariaDB Community Server.

Conversions up to base 62 for the function CONV() and a new feature to reclaim InnoDB system tablespace have been backported from MariaDB Community Server to MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.6 after reaching maturity in MariaDB Community Server.

For more information check the backport section of the release notes.

Other Notable Release Updates

MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.6.19-15
  • MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.6.19-15 Release Notes
  • Notable Changes:
    • It is now possible to unblock an account which reached the ‘–max-password-errors’ limit by ‘ALTER USER <user> ACCOUNT UNLOCK’ instead of executing a ‘FLUSH PRIVILEGES’ command. See the release notes for more details
    • A new global variable server_uid can be used to identify a server instance. This Server ID is also logged in the error log file on startup
    • A new optimizer_join_limit_pref_ratio optimization had been added which allows to efficiently handle queries using JOIN and ORDER BY ... LIMIT construct. The new system variable optimizer_join_limit_pref_ratio is set to 0 by default for disabling the optimization. Set the value of optimizer_join_limit_pref_ratio to a non-zero value to enable this option (higher values are more conservative, recommended value is 100)
    • This release incorporates Galera library version 26.4.19
    • This release incorporates MariaDB ColumnStore storage engine version 23.10.2
MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5.26-20
  • MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5.26-20 Release Notes
  • Notable Changes:
    • A new global variable server_uid can be used to identify a server instance. This Server ID is also logged in the error log file on startup
    • This release incorporates Galera library version 26.4.19

Why MariaDB Enterprise Server

MariaDB Enterprise Server is an enhanced, hardened and secured version of MariaDB Community Server that delivers enterprise reliability, stability and long-term support as well as greater operational efficiency when it comes to managing large database deployments for business and mission critical applications. MariaDB Enterprise Server offers additional features needed for production workloads that are not available in the community edition, such as enterprise audit and enterprise backup, and also backports certain enterprise features to older versions so customers can take advantage of critical fixes and features immediately instead of having to upgrade to the newest version.

Being able to backport features from newer release series to older versions is a key advantage of MariaDB Enterprise Server. Quality assurance and internal processes do not always allow customers to upgrade production environments to the newest and greatest release series, although some of the new features would be of value. MariaDB Enterprise Server can help in this case, as we can backport highly requested features to existing versions in cases where we can assure that a backported feature does not decrease the stability of that release series of MariaDB Enterprise Server.

Download MariaDB Enterprise Server

MariaDB customers can download MariaDB Enterprise Server versions at mariadb.com/downloads/enterprise.