The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 12.1.2, the latest stable rolling release.
MariaDB 12.1.2 features performance enhancements, deeper MySQL and Oracle compatibility, and other general improvements.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog Overview of MariaDB 12.1
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Contributors to MariaDB 12.1.2
Aleksey Midenkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexander Barkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexey Botchkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexey Yurchenko (Codership)
Andrei Elkin (MariaDB Corporation)
Arcadiy Ivanov
Brandon Nesterenko (MariaDB Corporation)
Christian Hesse
Daniel Bartholomew (MariaDB Corporation)
Daniel Black (MariaDB Foundation)
Dave Gosselin (MariaDB Corporation)
Debarun Banerjee (MariaDB Corporation)
Denis Protivensky (Codership)
Dmitry Shulga (MariaDB Corporation)
Elena Stepanova (MariaDB Corporation)
Fariha Shaikh (Amazon)
Florian Smeets (FreeBSD)
Hemant Dangi (Codership)
i18n.site
Jan Lindström (MariaDB Corporation)
Jean Weisbuch
Jimmy Hú (MariaDB Corporation)
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Last Saturday marked an exciting milestone: the announcement of the winners in our first large-scale MariaDB Python Hackathon, organised in collaboration with BangPypers, HackerEarth, and MariaDB plc. Over the past months, developers from across India have explored new ways to make MariaDB easier to use, more connected, and better integrated into today’s most important open-source ecosystems.
This post celebrates the outstanding contributions in both the Integration Track — projects that help MariaDB work seamlessly with other tools and frameworks – and the Innovation Track – projects that showcase existing MariaDB features and make it easy to learn, copy, and adapt.
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The MariaDB Foundation announces the availability of MariaDB 11.8.5.
Users of MariaDB 11.8.4 are strongly recommended to upgrade to the new release.
MariaDB 11.8.4 is affected by an issue resulting in only partial deletion of data on MyISAM or Aria tables under specific conditions. InnoDB tables are not affected by this issue. Specifically, not all matching rows may be deleted when a DELETE statement includes a WHERE clause with a non-unique indexed column compared for equality with a literal (col=const), and the execution plan shows a “range” operation on that index.
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.8.4, MariaDB 11.4.9, MariaDB 10.11.5 and MariaDB 10.6.24, the latest stable releases in their respective long-term series (receiving regular maintenance and support for three years from their first stable release dates, and critical security fixes as source code releases for two additional years beyond).
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog Overview of MariaDB 11.8
Release Notes Changelog Overview of MariaDB 11.4
Release Notes Changelog Overview of MariaDB 11.8
Release Notes Changelog Overview of MariaDB 11.8
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Contributors to MariaDB 11.8.4
Aleksey Midenkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexander Barkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexey Botchkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexey Yurchenko (Codership)
Andrei Elkin (MariaDB Corporation)
Arcadiy Ivanov
Brandon Nesterenko (MariaDB Corporation)
Christian Hesse
Daniel Bartholomew (MariaDB Corporation)
Daniel Black (MariaDB Foundation)
Dave Gosselin (MariaDB Corporation)
Debarun Banerjee (MariaDB Corporation)
Denis Protivensky (Codership)
Dmitry Shulga (MariaDB Corporation)
Elena Stepanova (MariaDB Corporation)
Fariha Shaikh (Amazon)
Florian Smeets (FreeBSD)
Hemant Dangi (Codership)
i18n.site
Jan Lindström (MariaDB Corporation)
Jean Weisbuch
J. …
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This blog post is based on the YouTube presentation “MariaDB vs PostgreSQL: Technical Deep Dive | Architecture, Performance & Design Trade-offs” by Manoj Vakeel, part of MariaDB Foundation’s ongoing series exploring core database design choices and how they impact modern workloads.
The goal here is not to pick a “winner,” but to provide clear architectural insight for CTOs, database engineers, and system architects making decisions in 2025 and beyond.
“Both are powerful engines — both are proven in production — but they take very different routes to get there.” — Manoj Vakeel, MariaDB plc
Why this matters
PostgreSQL and MariaDB are two of the most widely adopted open-source relational databases.
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There are a couple days left until the survey closes – take this as a gentle nudge to participate if you’ve been meaning to 🙂
👉 https://mariadb.typeform.com/survey-2025
Response so far
I’ve been sharing invitations to participate in various communities and have been getting good responses. The more the better for the final report – so if you know somebody who should participate, I would appreciate it very much if you asked them to!
We’ve been amazed by the response so – thank you all that have taken the time to participate!
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Last year I filed a bug report MDEV-33603 on what a looked like a benign problem with an optimizer taking a different code path in a particular trivial looking test. Its benign looking nature lead to me not looking at it until last week. The “benign” bug as it turned out is a bug in an OpenSSL optimization on IBM POWER, which maybe not the lowest level of “How deep”, but its certainly a long way from the high level (above storage engines) optimizer decisions in MariaDB.
I feel I need to start this story justifying why it was left so long.
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MariaDB plc recently acquired SkySQL and rebranded it MariaDB Cloud that offers serverless MariaDB as a service. Kaj Arnö interviewed the technical father, and now it is time for a practical, technical kick-the-tires look at MariaDB Cloud.
In this tutorial, I’ll show developers how to set up a MariaDB Cloud database and load sample data in under 10 minutes. Perfect for showcasing simple SQL commands and MariaDB features with our public data set openflights – which incidentally is what one of the tracks in our ongoing hackathon is about.
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