Author: Vicențiu Ciorbaru
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MariaDB Catalogs preview containers available
Get an early look at MariaDB Catalogs—our multi-tenant database feature. No compiling needed! Just pull the image from quay.io and set MARIADB_CATALOGS to get started. Try it out and help shape the future of MariaDB!
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What we’ve developed in 2024
As Chief Development Officer of the MariaDB Foundation, I’ve worked to ensure that our development efforts focus where they matter most. On this final day of 2024, I want to reflect on the significant technical achievements we’ve accomplished and the collaborative processes that made them possible.
Our work this year has been driven by the goal of building a stronger, more engaged MariaDB community. By sharing our progress and learnings, I hope to provide insights that may inspire and support […]
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Attending SuseCon24
Last week MariaDB was present at SuseCon, both MariaDB Foundation as well as representatives from MariaDB Plc. The MariaDB Foundation has never attended SuseCon in the past, so this was an exciting new event for us. I’ll give you my view on the event and why I think it is a great event for the Open Source Software community.
The conference motto – #choice
SUSE’s focus is not on prescribing a particular technology, rather empowering its users to make the […]
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MariaDB Server will be the default database in cPanel

Good news! cPanel, one of the leading control panels in the hosting world has just announced that they are going to make MariaDB Server the default database when installing new cPanel instances. This change is slated to occur in version 122 of cPanel & WHM, coming in Q3 of 2024. We at MariaDB Foundation are very happy about this decision and are looking forward to continuous collaboration, to the benefit of our users and the MariaDB Server project.
We think […]
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Attending Percona University in Athens 2023
It’s been a while since we posted about community organised events. I’m happy to have the chance to talk about my experience attending Percona University in Athens.
For those in a hurry, the main topics are:1. Databases in the cloud, why vendor-lock is important to consider.2. How to build Open Source databases, FerretDB and TiDB, two completely different approaches.3. Upgrading from MySQL 5.7, monitoring and AI to speed up things.
Seeing familiar faces, discussing database experiences
When working within the […]
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MariaDB is part of Google Summer of Code 2023

We are excited to announce that this year MariaDB has once again been accepted as a Google Summer of Code organization. With this blog post I want to showcase the projects we’re taking on and wish good luck to our mentees for the summer!
At MariaDB we strongly believe in growing Open Source and we encourage new developers to contribute. Google Summer of Code allows us to have dedicated contributors focus on a project for a few months, knowing the […]
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MariaDB 11.0.1 RC (Short Term Support) now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB Server 11.0.1, the first RC release of the MariaDB Server 11.0 series, a Short Term Support release (with support lasting 1 year).
MariaDB Server 11 is a new major series. The release brings lots of query optimizer changes which we believe will be beneficial to our users. Nonetheless we advise testing before deploying in production as some query plans may change. You can read more about the changes from […]
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MariaDB 10.11.2 GA now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB Server 10.11.2, the first GA release of the MariaDB 10.11 series, a Long Term Support release.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Download MariaDB 10.11.2
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.11?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Contributors to MariaDB 10.11.2
Aleksey Midenkov (MariaDB Corporation) Alexander Barkov (MariaDB Corporation) Alexander Freiherr von Buddenbrock Alexander Kuleshov Andrei Elkin (MariaDB Corporation) Andrew Hutchings (MariaDB Foundation) Anel Husakovic […]