Blog
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Pick your feature!
With many of us spending lots of time at home in front of our webcams, MariaDB Foundation’s YouTube channel is getting some love. After lurking quietly after registration, we’ve kickstarted it recently by uploading all presentations from the recent MariaDB Day, held in Brussels in February.
MariaDB Foundation’s CEO, Kaj Arnö, put together Hi from Kaj (the rhyming should help clarify confusion on how to pronounce his name) where he asks for feedback on which video topics you’d like to […]
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Congratulations on SkySQL, the DBaaS offering!
We congratulate MariaDB Corporation on their release of SkySQL, a DBaaS offering for MariaDB Server. A big step!
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Enable post-compromise data protection with MariaDB and Virgil Security’s PureKit
MariaDB deployments hold vast amounts of sensitive data such as intellectual property, state secrets, healthcare and financial records. HIPAA, GDPR and other government regulations require even more stringent protections and disclosures. Achieving post-compromise protection is seen as a necessary new tool available to DevOps teams.
At the first MariaDB Day in Brussels on February 2nd, Virgil Security’s CTO and co-founder Dmitry Dain presented a MariaDB demo based on the Virgil PureKit security framework that can protect stored passwords, PII and […]
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Heads up: Renewing MariaDB Downloads
Time to renew downloads.mariadb.org! We are embarking on a long project. A large part of our user base mainly interacts with us through downloading new versions. Renewing MariaDB Downloads is the biggest-impact project of all of 2020, for that part of our user base.
Projects like this often get launched when external and internal impulses coincide. Our users have asked for a more consistent, simpler user experience. Advanced users would like a programmatic interface (a.k.a. REST API) for part of […]
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MariaDB 10.5.2 now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.5.2, the second beta release in the MariaDB 10.5 development series.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Download MariaDB 10.5.2
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.5?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Contributors to MariaDB 10.5.2
Aleksey Midenkov (MariaDB Corporation) Alexander Barkov (MariaDB Corporation) Alexander E. Patrakov Alexey Botchkov (MariaDB Corporation) Alexey Bychko Andrei Elkin (MariaDB Corporation) Andy Fiddaman (OmniOS CE) Anel Husakovic (MariaDB Foundation) […]
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Life after this
On Monday, I sent out an email to the staff of MariaDB Foundation. In the hope that my thinking is also applicable for someone else, here’s a slightly edited excerpt:
My email to our staff
For an unknown amount of time, we will live under exceptional circumstances. Yet, there will be life both during and after the Corona pandemic. With this email, I want to share my view on how Corona affects our organisation, on how we sustain life during […]
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Business As Unusual
MariaDB Foundation faces an unusual world, just like anyone else in these Corona times. Or perhaps, not quite. Here are some ideas for how to cope with a world inhibiting travel and social contact as we know it, from someone who has worked from home for 20 years, with colleagues also working from home.
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Looking for a C/C++ developer
The MariaDB Foundation is looking for a mid to senior-level C/C++ developer to work on MariaDB Server.
Our small team works remotely to build and support MariaDB, and requires strong skills in written English for daily communication.
A fulltime position is preferred.
We are looking in particular for people with an understanding of how open source works, how collaboration is fostered, how licenses and copyright work, and how tools such as git and test suites are best used. The person(s) […]