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MariaDB 10.2.5 RC now available
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.2.5 Release Candidate (RC). See the release notes and changelog for details.
Download MariaDB 10.2.5
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
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Making life prettier with gdb PrettyPrinting API
Anyone who has peeked inside a gdb manual knows that gdb has some kind of Python API. And anyone who has skimmed through has seen something called “Pretty Printing” that supposedly tells gdb how to print complex data structures in a nice and readable way. Well, at least I have seen that, but I’ve never given it much thought. Still, one day, when I was typing:
for the umpteenth time I asked myself, “why the heck not?”, and so it […]
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Extended maintenance period for MariaDB 5.5
As the maintenance policy of the MariaDB Foundation states, we are committed to maintaining each release for 5 years. As MariaDB 5.5 was announced for General Availability in 2012, the five year mark will soon be passed. However, since MariaDB 5.5 is widely used in many major Linux distributions in production use at the moment, the Foundation has decided to extend the maintenance period for MariaDB 5.5 to the year 2020.
All Linux distributions currently including MariaDB 5.5 will thus […]
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MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.30 and Connector/J 1.5.9 now available
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.30 and MariaDB Connector/J 1.5.9. Both of these are stable (GA) releases. See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.30
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.5.9
Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/J
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
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Who are you? The history of MySQL and MariaDB authentication protocols from 1997 to 2017
MySQL 3.20 to 4.0
In the good old days, when 32MB of RAM justified the name my-huge.cnf, when nobody knew Google and Facebook didn’t even exist, security was… how do I put it… kind of cute. Computer viruses didn’t steal millions and didn’t disrupt elections — they played Yankee Doodle or told you not to play with the PC. People used telnet and ftp, although some security conscious admins already knew ssh.
Somewhere around this time, give or take a […]
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MariaDB 10.1.22 now available
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.22. This is a Stable (GA) release. See the release notes and changelog for details.
Download MariaDB 10.1.22
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
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MariaDB 10.0.30 now available
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.30. This is a Stable (GA) release. See the release notes and changelog for details.
Download MariaDB 10.0.30
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.0?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
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Alibaba Cloud becomes a Platinum Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation today announced that Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, has become its platinum sponsor. The sponsorship will help the Foundation in its goals to ensure continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem, and to drive adoption, serving an ever growing community of users and developers. “Alibaba Cloud is committed to contributing to the open source community and empowering developers around the world. Today, more than one hundred thousand MySQL instances are running on […]