And for the fourth year in a row, MariaDB Foundation participates in the Google Summer of Code! The MariaDB Organization in GSoC is an umbrella organization for all projects that belongs to the MariaDB ecosystem, be it MariaDB Server, MariaDB Connectors, or MariaDB MaxScale. The complete list of our suggested project ideas is in MariaDB Jira. This year we were granted 10 student slots (as compared to 8 last year, 5 in 2014, and 3 in 2013). And it was good, as applicants this year were exceptionally strong. Our students have chosen these projects:
For the server:
- MDEV-7773 Aggregate Stored Functions
- MDEV-8947 Cassandra connector support for 2.x
- MDEV-4989 Support for GTID in mysqlbinlog
- MDEV-9711 NO PAD collations
- MDEV-9197 Pushdown conditions into non-mergeable views/derived tables
- MDEV-371 Unique indexes for blobs (server-side implementation) and adaptive hashing for generated hash
- MDEV-371 Unique indexes for blobs (in MyISAM, Aria, InnoDB, and XtraDB)
student: Varun Raiko, mentors: Sanja Byelkin and Vicențiu Ciorbaru
student: Charles Muurmu, mentor: Sergey Petrunia
blog: https://cassandrastorageenginev2.wordpress.com/
student: Becca Tucker, mentors: Lixun Peng and Colin Charles
student: Daniil Medvedev, mentor: Alexander Barkov
student: Galina Shalygina, mentors: Igor Babaev and Sergey Petrunia
blog: http://gsocmariadbshagalla.blogspot.ru/
student: Sachin Setiya, mentor: Sergei Golubchik
student: Shubham Barai, mentors: Jan Lindström and Sergei Golubchik
For the MariaDB Connector/C:
- CONC-125 Import and export popular data formats from and to dynamic columns
student: Kris Massey, mentors: Georg Richter and Sanja Byelkin
blog: https://connectorcgsoc2016.wordpress.com/
For the MariaDB MaxScale:
- MXS-1 MaxScale filter to real Microsoft SQL Server syntax
student: Lisa Reilly Brinson, mentor: Markus Mäkelä
blog: https://maxscalefiltergsocproject.wordpress.com
For the Master High Availability Manager for MySQL:
- Provide GTID support for MariaDB MHA
student: Charles Dirk, mentor: Colin Charles
blog: https://mariadbmhagtidgsoc2016.wordpress.com/
Many projects have two mentors to ensure that the student always gets a quick answer to his questions and someone is always available to help even if one of the mentors is, for example, on vacations. …
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.25. See the release notes and changelog for details on this release.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.0?
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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.49, MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.3, and MariaDB Connector/C 2.2.3. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases.
Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.49
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Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.3
Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/J
Download MariaDB Connector/C 2.2.3
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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.49, MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.2, and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 2.0.10. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?
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Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.2
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Download MariaDB Connector/ODBC 2.0.10
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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.2.0. This is an alpha release. See the release notes and changelog for details on this release.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2?
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The 2015 accounting for the MariaDB Foundation has been completed and the key figures are:
- Total income: 272 827,95 USD
- Total expenses: 276 684,73 USD
- Net income after adjustments: 1 337,34 USD
Staff costs were about 240 000 USD. Travel costs were only about 3 000 USD. The remaining 35 000 USD is administration (accounting, finances, legal) and other expenses. As some of our staff cost is also administration (mostly the CEO) we can estimate that about 83 % (230k out of 276k) goes to software development related activities (including documentation and packaging), so we are quite efficient on how the funds are used. …
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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.13, and MariaDB Connector/J 1.3.7. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1?
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Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.3.7
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If you are in Helsinki on Thursday next week March 17th, join us for the MariaDB meetup at Solinor. MariaDB team members will present the latest on MariaDB 10.1, MaxScale and MariaDB’s future roadmap.
On stage Rasmus Johansson VP Engineering, MariaDB Corporation and Johan Wikman & Markus Mäkelä, developers of MaxScale.
See the meetup page for the agenda and registration:
http://www.meetup.com/Helsinki-MySQL-User-Group/events/229338790/ …