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This month in MariaDB Foundation: Feb 2025

“The act of measuring disturbs the system and changes its state.” is a quote attributed to Werner Heisenberg. While I am uncertain about whether Heisenberg ever uttered those exact words, I am certain that the quote “What doesn’t get measured, doesn’t get managed” …

Join our AI Hackathon with MariaDB Vector

We are excited to announce a hackathon with MariaDB Vector and Python. Since we are reaching outside our bubble, let’s start from the beginning: 
MariaDB, the open-source database powers the world’s most demanding applications, from Wikipedia to global financial institutions. …

Report from the Board

Openness, Adoption, Continuity: You’ve heard me repeating our mantra like a broken record. Today is the next episode – and the theme du jour is about our Board Meetings, which we have minuted publicly on https://mariadb.org/bodminutes/ since October 2020. …

This month in MariaDB Foundation: Jan 2025

Focus, focus, focus! That’s the mantra of any successful organisation. With great input from our Board, we’ve managed to condense our strategic planning for 2025 into six goals. …

MariaDB 11.7.2 and MariaDB 11.8.1 now available

The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.8.1, the Release Candidate (RC) in the long-term MariaDB 11.8 release, and MariaDB 11.7.2, the latest Generally Available (GA) rolling release. …