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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” is a management adage that gets a lot of negative publicity, deservedly so.
Metrics Not Considered Harmful
Yet, metrics can be helpful. MariaDB Foundation is far from overmeasuring pointy-haired-boss numbers, and in February, we made an attempt […]
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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. Now MariaDB Vector is bringing AI-ready vector search natively into the open-source database world. MySQL users ahoy:
Our hackathon is your chance to explore AI possibilities with MariaDB Vector and Python. Whether you’re a developer, data scientist, or AI enthusiast, […]
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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.
At last Wednesday’s Board Meeting, we made quite a few important decisions – let me draw your attention to them in this separate blog entry.
Ex officio: Michael Widenius and Sergei Golubchik
First, we properly documented the special role of our founding […]
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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.
Refiguring the process – from descriptive to prescriptive
Our goal setting started from mapping out our activities 2024. I asked myself: “How can we describe what we do on one page?”. There were 38 activities – think “Scrum Epics” – in 6 areas.
Guess what? That’s too many. No Board member is […]
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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.
See the release notes and changelogs for details, as well as the MariaDB 11.8.LTS announcement.
Download MariaDB 11.8.1
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.8?
Download MariaDB 11.7.2
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.7?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Contributors to MariaDB 11.7.2
Aleksey Midenkov […]
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MariaDB 11.8 is LTS
Confirming what you probably already expected: MariaDB Server 11.8 will be a long-term support release.
Now a Release Candidate – GA in May
With MariaDB Vector as the lead new feature, MariaDB 11.8 succeeds the previous LTS MariaDB 11.4 from a year ago.
As of now, MariaDB 11.8 is at the Release Candidate stage, with GA planned for May.
Lots of new features since MariaDB 11.4
MariaDB 11.8 has about 60 features, large and small, on top of the previous […]
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MariaDB Day Brussels Aftertaste 2025-02
Back from Brussels! With a bit of time to reflect, I’d like to share the aftertaste from our MariaDB Day, our very own FOSDEM Fringe Event. Prepare for an information-packed blog entry with links to the presentations, including live recordings and often the slide decks.
Billionaire controversy cancelled
Brussels during the first weekend of February is a hotbed of Open Source. The weather might not be hot, in contrast to the discussions in the corridors and rooms of the ULB […]
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MariaDB 11.4.5, 10.11.11, 10.6.21 and 10.5.28 now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.4.5, MariaDB 10.11.11, MariaDB 10.6.21 and MariaDB 10.5.28, the latest stable releases in their respective long-term series (maintained for five years from their first stable release dates).
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Download MariaDB 11.4.5
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.4?
Download MariaDB 10.11.11
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.11?
Download MariaDB 10.6.21
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.6?
Download MariaDB 10.5.28
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