The MariaDB Foundation has added Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero and Ripple to the list of ways to contribute financially.
After experiencing problems with Paypal and disabling it as a means of contribution, our individual donations dropped off as not everyone found the alternatives, such as paying directly into the bank account, convenient.
We recently adding Liberapay as a payment method, and have now started accepting a number of cryptocurrencies. If you wish to donate in a cryptocurrency that is not yet supported, please let us know (you can do so in the comments on this post), and if there is enough demand we will consider adding it as an option. …
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2017 was an excellent year for MariaDB.
The Foundation was joined by several new sponsoring members; IBM, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud and Microsoft. This was the first year the Foundation did not run out of funds at the end of the year and we were able to fully compensate our staff. The members have also helped us reach wider ecosystems and helped the Foundation in its mission of supporting continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem.
In 2017, MariaDB Server was more active than ever, with 8 releases of the 10.2 series, including the first stable release in May, 10 releases of the 10.1 series, 5 releases of the 10.0 series and 4 releases of the 5.5 series. …
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.3.5, the first release candidate in the MariaDB 10.3 series, as well as MariaDB Connector/J 2.2.2, the latest stable release in the MariaDB Connector/J 2.2 series, and MariaDB Connector/J 1.7.2, the latest stable release in the MariaDB Connector/J 1.7 series. See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.3?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Download MariaDB Connector/J 2.2.2
Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/J
Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.7.2
Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/J
Contributors to MariaDB 10.3.5
Aleksey Midenkov (Tempesta)
Alexander Barkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexander Kuleshov
Alexey Botchkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexey Yurchenko (Galera)
Andrei Elkin (MariaDB Corporation)
Daniel Bartholomew (MariaDB Corporation)
Daniel Black (IBM)
Elena Stepanova (MariaDB Corporation)
Eugene Kosov (Tempesta)
Galina Shalygina (MariaDB Corporation)
Hartmut Holzgraefe (MariaDB Corporation)
Howard Su (Microsoft)
Ian Gilfillan (MariaDB Foundation)
Igor Babaev (MariaDB Corporation)
Jan Lindström (MariaDB Corporation)
Jerome Brauge
Karim Geiger
Marko Mäkelä (MariaDB Corporation)
Michael Widenius (MariaDB Foundation/MariaDB Corporation)
Michal Schorm (RedHat)
Oleksandr Byelkin (MariaDB Corporation)
Olivier Bertrand
Sachin Setiya (MariaDB Corporation)
Sergei Golubchik (MariaDB Corporation)
Sergei Petrunia (MariaDB Corporation)
Sergey Vojtovich (MariaDB Foundation)
Varun Gupta (MariaDB Corporation)
Vicențiu Ciorbaru (MariaDB Foundation)
Vladislav Vaintroub (MariaDB Corporation)
30 Contributors
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The 2018 MariaDB Developers UnConference is being held in New York City on February 24 and February 25.
Below are a list of the sessions with links to slides where available. This post will be updated as slides become available.
Day One
* Welcome (Otto Kekäläinen)
* New Developers Tutorial and Best Practices (Vicențiu Ciorbaru) – slides
* Discussion: Refactoring transaction metadata storage (Marko Mäkelä) – slides
* Docker and why we should use it (Vicențiu Ciorbaru) – slides
* New 10.3 Optimizer Features (Vicențiu Ciorbaru) – slides
* MyRocks Storage Engine Status Update (Sergei Petrunia) – slides
* Group Insert (Yuan Zhang) – slides
* Cross-Engine Hot Backup (Marko Mäkelä) – slides
Day Two
* Replication internals and Ongoing and Future Projects (Andrei) – slides
* What’s new in MariaDB 10.3 for developers (Max) – slides
* Arm64 port and optimization (Sandeep) – slides
* Deep-dive: InnoDB transactions and write paths (Marko) – slides
* MySQL features missing in MariaDB (Colin) – slides
* Status of Spider patches in MariaDB 10.4 (Kentoku) – slides
* MariaDB 10.4 brainstorming (Otto) – Knowledge Base page …
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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.2.13, the next stable release in the 10.2 series, as well as MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.0.3 and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 2.0.16.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Download MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.0.3
Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/ODBC
Download MariaDB Connector/ODBC 2.0.16
Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/ODBC
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …
Recently we had a report from a user who had seen a stunning 90% performance regression after upgrading his server to a Linux kernel with KPTI (kernel page-table isolation – a remedy for the Meltdown vulnerability). (more…) …
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MariaDB was voted database of the year for the fifth year in succession in the 2017 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice awards, winning 42.22% of the vote, up from 41.29% last year. Thanks to everyone from the community that voted for us. MariaDB has now won the award in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
2018 will see MariaDB 10.3 being released as stable. 10.3 is a major new release with the focus on compatibility, easing migration from other DBMSs, as well as adding new features that are sure to be well used, such as system-versioned tables, which allow one to query data as it existed at a previous point in time (useful in case of disaster!). …
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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.1.31 and MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.34. See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.34
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
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