The MariaDB Foundation is proud to put its name behind the SaveDotOrg campaign. We urge the Internet Society (ISOC) to cancel the sale of the Public Interest Registry (PIR) to Ethos Capital. NGOs and non-profits rely on the .org domain, and the proposed sale to a private equity firm puts this pillar of internet freedom at significant risk.
Read more:
- SaveDotOrg campaign
- Nonprofit Community Stands Together to Protect .ORG
- Coalition Letter on Sale of Public Interest Registry
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The 2019 Shanghai MariaDB Developers Unconference is being hosted by Microsoft Shanghai, from 19 November. Slides will be added to this post as they become available.
Day One
- Welcome by MariaDB Foundation CEO (Kaj)
- MariaDB Foundation from the perspective of a Board Member (Eric)
- Sponsoring MariaDB Foundation (Prashant)
- History of MariaDB (Monty)
- New Contributor Tutorial – MariaDB Server & more (Vicentiu)
- ALTER TABLE Improvements in MariaDB (Marko)
- The Path of the Query (Sergei G)
- Main classes/structures of MariaDB and how they are connected (Oleksandr)
- How to add a new function and debug MariaDB Server (Monty)
- How MariaDB optimizer works in general (Oleksandr)
- Stress Reduction (Prashant)
Day Two
- The customization features of MariaDB Spider in Tencent Games (Will Han)
- Memory management Conventional query/PS/SP (Oleksandr)
- MariaDB Feature Plan: RecycleBin for DDL (Lixun Peng)
- TBA (Alexey)
- MariaDB Server 10.5 InnoDB Status &
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.4.10, MariaDB 10.3.20, MariaDB 10.2.29 and MariaDB 10.1.43 the latest stable releases in their respective series.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.4?
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.3?
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2?
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Note that 10.4.9, 10.3.19, 10.2.28 and 10.1.42 contain a critical bug, MDEV-20987, and should not be used. Releases fixing the issue will be available shortly.
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.4.9, MariaDB 10.3.19, MariaDB 10.2.28, MariaDB 10.1.42 and MariaDB 5.5.66, the latest stable releases in their respective series.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.4?
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Chromebooks are a breed of very portable and easy-to-use laptops with a Linux-based operating system from Google and hardware available from many manufactures. Chromebooks are very popular in the educational sector due to their low price and the effortlessness to use as they require next to no administration and “just works” all the time.
Despite being based on Linux (just like Android is), the Chromebook OS is a very closed down platform. Google ensures the devices are always safe and security updates are automatically installed, while the user just logs in with their Google account and does not have real root access to the devices (again, similar to Android systems). …
The demand for DBAs, developers and software engineers knowledgeable in MariaDB Server is high. The supply isn’t.
This is something we plan to fix, with the MariaDB Server University Program, for which we are now inviting universities to participate in, and users of MariaDB Server to sponsor.
Mind the Gap
Closing the gap between supply and demand is in the interest of several stakeholders:
Universities. …
Indonesia to Lead World Wide University Database Education Initiative
Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 6 Sep 2019: MariaDB Foundation and APTISI (the Association of Private Higher Education Institutions Indonesia) collaborate to launch the MariaDB Server University Programme, providing free education material for universities across Indonesia and worldwide.
The need for database education in Indonesia
With millions of university level students in the IT sector alone, Indonesia needs a comprehensive education programme for databases, for database administrators, for developers of applications, and for developers of database technology. Open Source databases are ideal from an education perspective, providing professors and students with the technology and licenses needed, out of the box, without having to enter bureaucratic agreements. …
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In his blog post “On Contributions, Pride and Cockiness ” in May, MariaDB Foundation CEO Kaj Arnö spoke of a renewed focus on MariaDB Server pull requests. Processing community pull requests in good time is a key part of our mission, but we’d been falling behind, and receiving justifiable criticism. At the time of that article, there were 167 open pull requests, with many open for far too long, and contributors were frustrated.
We set out two end goals:
- Reduce backlog of open pull requests
- Motivate contributors to make more contributions
There’s been no noticeable uptick in contributions since then, but we’ve made good progress in reducing the number of open pull requests. …