If you are a Galera user, you are strongly recommended to upgrade ASAP!
MariaDB Community Server corrective releases are now available for the currently maintained long-term series. These releases address critical CVEs, and we strongly recommend that all users review the security advisories and upgrade as soon as possible.
These are Stable (GA) releases and are recommended for users running the corresponding MariaDB Server series.
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We have a new record average time to process a pull request: 21 days!
Part of my job is following (and trying to improve of course) some key metrics about MariaDB Server pull request processing. As a part of that I compile a nice pull request metric and a graph of it. This is what it looked like for the last month:
There’s a single number that caught my attention: 21.05 ! This is a new record low! That’s how much it takes on average from opening a pull request to closing it for all the requests closed last month!
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS, the latest Long Term Support release of MariaDB Server. The first GA of the 12.3 series is 12.3.2.
MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS includes the features and improvements introduced during the MariaDB 12.x development series and provides a stable release line for production environments requiring long-term maintenance.
Highlights
MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS includes improvements across several areas of the server, including binary logging, SQL compatibility, replication, optimizer behavior, security, GIS, JSON, and general server usability.
Important
In MariaDB 12.3, innodb_snapshot_isolation defaults to ON
As we wanted to be correct when using REPEATBLE READ isolation level, we changed the default of the InnoDB snapshot isolation.
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Last week, Oracle invited MariaDB Foundation to give a presentation at Oracle’s MySQL Contributor Summit 2026. I had the opportunity to participate remotely and speak about MariaDB’s role within the broader MySQL ecosystem.
First of all, I would like to thank Heather VanCura, VP Community Engagement at Oracle, and Jason Wilcox, SVP Data Services at Oracle, for the invitation and for creating a space where these discussions could happen openly and constructively.
The presentation itself is available here on YouTube. At just over 17 minutes, it is reasonably compact viewing for anyone interested in the current state — and possible future direction — of the MySQL ecosystem.
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We are delighted to announce that Virtuozzo has renewed its sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation.
Virtuozzo has been a long-standing supporter of open infrastructure, service providers, and cloud platforms, and we are very pleased to continue strengthening our collaboration.
At MariaDB Foundation, sponsorship is not only about financial support. It is also about building useful, practical ecosystem work around MariaDB Server together with organizations that care about open technology, reliable infrastructure, and long-term user choice.
With Virtuozzo, we see strong alignment around open cloud infrastructure, database performance, operational reliability, and practical deployment models for service providers, SaaS platforms, and enterprise environments.
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We are very pleased to welcome ProxySQL as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.
ProxySQL is the leading proxy for MySQL and has recently focused on supporting more and more of MariaDB, both with the Proxy and with other open-source projects ProxySQL is stewarding, like dbdeployer and orchestrator.
I had the chance to interview René Cannaò, CEO of ProxySQL.
Why is it important for ProxySQL to sponsor an organization like the MariaDB Foundation?
ProxySQL was born within the MySQL ecosystem, and MariaDB has always been an important part of it.
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MariaDB is now clearly listed as the recommended database in Drupal’s official documentation. Following community discussion on Drupal.org, the Database server requirements now lists MariaDB first, and identifies it as the recommended database for Drupal 10, 11, and 12. Drupal is a major open source content management system—a flexible platform used by a substantial share of websites globally.
We’re glad to see this. Recognition matters because MariaDB is often used but documented as MySQL, going unnoticed under the hood—and when it goes unnamed, the work behind it loses visibility, a point Anna Widenius made in “I Am Not Building Cadillacs Anymore“, on how Henry Ford was long mistaken for the company that took his designs and became Cadillac.
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Who says developing MariaDB plugins is hard? I was able to produce one in under 3 minutes!
I of course did it by asking Grok nicely:
The produced result is actually very decent:
/*
errorwatch.c – MariaDB Audit API plugin
Records statement execution errors into a dedicated log file.
This plugin subscribes to the GENERAL audit class and logs
events of type MYSQL_AUDIT_GENERAL_ERROR (and STATUS events
that carry a non-zero error code). It writes structured
entries to /var/log/mariadb/errorwatch.log (or /tmp/ fallback).
To build (inside MariaDB source tree):
1. Copy this file and CMakeLists.txt to plugin/errorwatch/
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