Tempesta Technologies Becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation

We are delighted to welcome Tempesta Technologies as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation!

Tempesta Technologies is the developer of Tempesta FW, an open-source hybrid of a web accelerator and a multi-layer firewall. Engineered for maximum efficiency, Tempesta FW is tightly integrated with the Linux TCP/IP stack and leverages cutting-edge technologies to deliver exceptional web application performance. It provides robust protection against DDoS and web attacks while ensuring smooth, high-speed operation under normal conditions.

This partnership underscores MariaDB Server’s continued commitment to performance and efficiency—not just in terms of database speed and scalability, but across the broader ecosystem that powers modern web infrastructure.

MariaDB Catalogs preview containers available

We’ve made significant progress on MariaDB Catalogs, and while there’s still work to be done, we’re excited to offer the community an easy way to try out our preview release. You no longer need to compile the source code yourself—just use our prebuilt containers, now available on our official quay.io development registry.

The code is available publicly on Github, in a separate repo compared to the official MariaDB Server (until the feature gets published as part of an official MariaDB Server release)

Documentation is available on the Knowledge Base.

Join our AI Hackathon with MariaDB Vector

We are excited to announce a hackathon with MariaDB Vector and Python. Since we are reaching outside our bubble, let’s start from the beginning: 

MariaDB, the open-source database powers the world’s most demanding applications, from Wikipedia to global financial institutions. Now MariaDB Vector is bringing AI-ready vector search natively into the open-source database world. MySQL users ahoy: 

Our hackathon is your chance to explore AI possibilities with MariaDB Vector and Python. Whether you’re a developer, data scientist, or AI enthusiast, MariaDB Foundation invites you to build innovative AI applications, compete for prizes, and showcase your work.

MariaDB 11.7.2 and MariaDB 11.8.1 now available

The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.8.1, the Release Candidate (RC) in the long-term MariaDB 11.8 release, and MariaDB 11.7.2, the latest Generally Available (GA) rolling release.

See the release notes and changelogs for details, as well as the MariaDB 11.8.LTS announcement.


Download MariaDB 11.8.1

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.8?


Download MariaDB 11.7.2

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.7?

MariaDB 11.8 is LTS

Confirming what you probably already expected: MariaDB Server 11.8 will be a long-term support release. 

Now a Release Candidate – GA in May

With MariaDB Vector as the lead new feature, MariaDB 11.8 succeeds the previous LTS MariaDB 11.4 from a year ago.

As of now, MariaDB 11.8 is at the Release Candidate stage, with GA planned for May.

Lots of new features since MariaDB 11.4

MariaDB 11.8 has about 60 features, large and small, on top of the previous LTS, MariaDB 11.4. At our recent MariaDB Day on 1 Feb 2025 in Brussels, MariaDB Corporation Chief Architect Sergei Golubchik gave an overview of 11.8.

MariaDB 11.4.5, 10.11.11, 10.6.21 and 10.5.28 now available

The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.4.5, MariaDB 10.11.11, MariaDB 10.6.21 and MariaDB 10.5.28, the latest stable releases in their respective long-term series (maintained for five years from their first stable release dates).

See the release notes and changelogs for details.


Download MariaDB 11.4.5

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.4?


Download MariaDB 10.11.11

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.11?

MariaDB 11.6.2 and MariaDB 11.7.1 now available

The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.7.1, the latest rolling release Release Candidate (RC), and MariaDB 11.6.2, the latest Generally Available (GA) rolling release.

A subset of the new features in MariaDB 11.7 include:

  • Vectors
  • Optimizer improvements (including the Charset Narrowing Optimization being on by default)
  • Functions for generating version 4 and version 7 UUIDs
  • The ROW data type as a return value in stored procedures

See the release notes and changelogs for details. …

MariaDB 11.4.4, 11.2.6, 10.11.10, 10.6.20 and 10.5.27 now available

The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.4.4, MariaDB 10.11.10, MariaDB 10.6.20 and MariaDB 10.5.27, the latest stable releases in their respective long-term series (maintained for five years from their first stable release dates), as well as MariaDB 11.2.6 the latest and final scheduled release in the 11.2 short-term series (maintained for one year)

See the release notes and changelogs for details.


Download MariaDB 11.4.4

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.4?