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Why I keep choosing MariaDB
Users of open source software don’t always share their stories, simply because they are satisfied. That’s why we were delighted to accept an offer from database expert Richard Bensley to share why he has repeatedly used MariaDB over the years.
I had a chat with Richard and learnt that he has seen MariaDB as a user, customer, and even an employee of MariaDB. Despite experimenting with other solutions, new and old, his passion for MariaDB and the people behind hasn’t […]
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MariaDB Server GitHub branches: Have your say
Many countries in the world right now are hosting elections, in fact, my own country’s election is tomorrow. MariaDB Foundation is also asking for you to make one more vote on our own kind of referendum.
We have recently had a request by a member of the community to change how we use GitHub, in a way that, in-theory, will make things easier for community contributors. I’ll explain the current situation, the proposal and then the poll.
Current situation
At […]
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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 11.6.0 preview release available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.6.0, a preview release in the MariaDB 11.6 series. MariaDB 11.6 is a rolling release.
See the release notes for details.
Download MariaDB 11.6.0
Release Notes What is MariaDB 11.6?
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
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Improving MariaDB support in open source projects
As part of MariaDB’s efforts in Adoption, we have been working on support of MariaDB in open source projects.
The open source projects we have been looking at range from well known, ready to use projects like WordPress or MediaWiki (that Wikipedia runs on), to under-the-hood solutions like ORMs that connect software with databases for countless other open source and private projects.
MariaDB is the de facto standard that many projects and users are running. As MariaDB diverges, matures and […]
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UBI based Docker Official Images
We launched Red Hat UBI based Docker Official Images for MariaDB! These are available on Docker Hub with tags containing ubi including lts-ubi.
The MariaDB plc folks suggested this would be good for enterprise users. After dusting of an old prototype, jointly developing the image, a couple of requests for packages into the UBI repository, and running through our test suite for compatibility testing, there is now an image available for everyone that will be maintained.
Attention to the Red […]
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Start of Life for MariaDB 11.6
We normally announce releases and the end of life of releases, but today we are going to try something a little different, an announcement of “start of life”.
What does this mean?
The way we use GitHub is a little different to most projects. Instead of having a mainline and branching versions from that, MariaDB Server creates a new branch from the previous version. This is intended to happen shortly after the preview release of the previous version, but for […]
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MariaDB 11.4.2 and MariaDB 11.5.1 now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.5.1, a Release Candidate (RC) in the rolling release, and MariaDB 11.4.2, the first Generally Available (GA) release in the MariaDB 11.4 series. MariaDB 11.4 is a long-term series, and will be maintained for five years.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Download MariaDB 11.5.1
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.5?
Download MariaDB 11.4.2
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.4?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository […]