Category Archives: Announcements
If you’ve been around the MariaDB community for a while, you can probably feel it already: things are moving in the right direction.
And no, I’m not talking about one vanity metric, one lucky spike, or one noisy social post.
I’m talking about a broader trend.
The latest Adoption Index data shows something I really like to see: not one lucky spike, but multiple signals moving in the right direction at the same time.
Sometimes people want one number.
One chart. One KPI. One neat little story.
But open source projects do not work like that.
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We are pleased to announce the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.0 series. MariaDB 13.0 is a preview rolling release, published on 23 March 2026, and it continues the work started in 12.3 while adding a solid set of entirely new features.
And this one is interesting.
This preview release brings a nice mix of new SQL capabilities, better optimizer insight, richer metadata, and practical engine improvements. Not every feature is flashy, but many of them are exactly the kind of changes that make daily work with MariaDB smoother, clearer, and just a bit more powerful.
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We are pleased to welcome DBaasNow as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.
As the MariaDB ecosystem continues to expand across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments, the need for consistent, reliable, and scalable database operations has never been more important. DBaasNow brings a strong focus to this space with its database operations control plane, designed to standardize and automate database lifecycle management across diverse infrastructures.
Simplifying Operations Across Mixed Database Environments
Many organizations today operate MariaDB alongside other database technologies. Managing these environments efficiently is often challenging, particularly in governance, automation, and operational consistency.
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In the royal court of Naboo, Queen Amidala received delegations from many worlds.
Some arrived as long-standing allies. Others were travelers whose routes simply crossed the planet’s orbit. Engineers, merchants, explorers, and diplomats all brought something different to the court. Each had their own craft, their own technology, their own perspective. Together they formed a network of relationships that allowed the system to flourish.
Healthy ecosystems often grow this way. Not by decree, but by connection.
Modern data platforms are much the same.
MariaDB sits at the center of a wide and diverse landscape of tools, services, and platforms used by developers and organizations around the world.
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We’re excited to welcome TidesDB as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.
TidesDB’s sponsorship directly supports our mission to strengthen the MariaDB ecosystem and accelerate innovation through open, community-driven collaboration. Their commitment reflects a shared belief that open source databases thrive when strong technology and strong communities grow together.
Beyond sponsorship, TidesDB is contributing meaningful technology to the ecosystem through a new pluggable storage engine for MariaDB, designed for modern hardware. This integration expands the range of workloads MariaDB can serve while giving users and developers more choice, performance options, and flexibility.
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 12.3.1, the release candidate (RC) in the new long-term support (LTS) release, and MariaDB 12.2.2, the latest stable rolling release.
MariaDB 12.3.1 features extensive improvements to the binary log, SQL standard and compatibility features including an XML data type, as well as replication and other general improvements.
MariaDB 12.2.2 features deeper Oracle compatibility, optimizer improvements and more optimizer hints, a removal of the depth limit of 32 from JSON functions, and other general improvements.
See the overview, release notes and changelogs for details. …
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.8.6, MariaDB 11.4.10, MariaDB 10.11.16 and MariaDB 10.6.25, the latest stable releases in their respective long-term series (receiving regular maintenance and support for three years from their first stable release dates, and critical security fixes as source code releases for two additional years beyond).
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog Overview of MariaDB 11.8
Release Notes Changelog Overview of MariaDB 11.4
Release Notes Changelog Overview of MariaDB 11.8
Release Notes Changelog Overview of MariaDB 11.8
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Contributors to MariaDB 11.8.6
Akshat Nehra (Amazon)
Aleksey Midenkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alessandro Vetere
Alexander Barkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexey Botchkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexey Yurchenko (MariaDB Corporation)
Andrei Elkin (MariaDB Corporation)
Aquila Macedo
Brandon Nesterenko (MariaDB Corporation)
Christian Hesse
Daniel Bartholomew (MariaDB Corporation)
Daniel Black (MariaDB Foundation)
Dave Gosselin (MariaDB Corporation)
Dearsh Oberoi
Denis Protivensky (MariaDB Corporation)
ethanxhzhao (Tencent)
Georgi ‘Joro’ Kodinov (MariaDB Foundation)
Hemant Dangi (MariaDB Corporation)
Jan Lindström (MariaDB Corporation)
Jan Smutný (Excello)
KhaledR57
Kristian Nielsen (MariaDB Foundation)
Marko Mäkelä (MariaDB Corporation)
Michael Widenius (MariaDB Corporation and MariaDB Foundation)
Mohammad El-Shennawy
Mohammad Tafzeel Shams (MariaDB Corporation)
nada
Oleg Smirnov (MariaDB Corporation)
Oleksandr Byelkin (MariaDB Corporation)
Otto Kekäläinen (Amazon)
Pekka Lampio (MariaDB Corporation)
Raghunandan Bhat (MariaDB Corporation)
Rex Johnston (MariaDB Corporation)
Rophy Tsai
Rucha Deodhar (MariaDB Corporation)
Seppo Jaakola (MariaDB Corporation)
Sergei Golubchik (MariaDB Corporation)
Sergei Petrunia (MariaDB Corporation)
Sergey Vojtovich (MariaDB Foundation)
Srikanth Bondalapati (MariaDB Corporation)
Thirunarayanan Balathandayuthapani (MariaDB Corporation)
Timofey Turenko (Timofey Turenko)
Tony Chen (Amazon)
Vladislav Vaintroub (MariaDB Corporation)
Vlad Lesin (MariaDB Corporation)
Yuchen Pei (MariaDB Corporation)
46 Contributors
Contributors to MariaDB 11.4.10
Akshat Nehra (Amazon)
Aleksey Midenkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexander Barkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexey Botchkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Andrei Elkin (MariaDB Corporation)
Aquila Macedo
Brandon Nesterenko (MariaDB Corporation)
Christian Hesse
Daniel Bartholomew (MariaDB Corporation)
Daniel Black (MariaDB Foundation)
Dave Gosselin (MariaDB Corporation)
Denis Protivensky (MariaDB Corporation)
ethanxhzhao (Tencent)
Georgi ‘Joro’ Kodinov (MariaDB Foundation)
Hemant Dangi (MariaDB Corporation)
Jan Lindström (MariaDB Corporation)
Jan Smutný (Excello)
KhaledR57
Kristian Nielsen (MariaDB Foundation)
Marko Mäkelä (MariaDB Corporation)
Michael Widenius (MariaDB Corporation and MariaDB Foundation)
Mohammad El-Shennawy
Mohammad Tafzeel Shams (MariaDB Corporation)
nada
Oleg Smirnov (MariaDB Corporation)
Oleksandr Byelkin (MariaDB Corporation)
Otto Kekäläinen (Amazon)
Pekka Lampio (MariaDB Corporation)
Raghunandan Bhat (MariaDB Corporation)
Rex Johnston (MariaDB Corporation)
Rophy Tsai
Rucha Deodhar (MariaDB Corporation)
Seppo Jaakola (MariaDB Corporation)
Sergei Golubchik (MariaDB Corporation)
Sergei Petrunia (MariaDB Corporation)
Sergey Vojtovich (MariaDB Foundation)
Srikanth Bondalapati (MariaDB Corporation)
Thirunarayanan Balathandayuthapani (MariaDB Corporation)
Tony Chen (Amazon)
Vladislav Vaintroub (MariaDB Corporation)
Vlad Lesin (MariaDB Corporation)
Yuchen Pei (MariaDB Corporation)
42 Contributors
Contributors to MariaDB 10.11.16
Akshat Nehra (Amazon)
Aleksey Midenkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexander Barkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexey Botchkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Andrei Elkin (MariaDB Corporation)
Aquila Macedo
Brandon Nesterenko (MariaDB Corporation)
Christian Hesse
Daniel Bartholomew (MariaDB Corporation)
Daniel Black (MariaDB Foundation)
Dave Gosselin (MariaDB Corporation)
Denis Protivensky (MariaDB Corporation)
ethanxhzhao (Tencent)
Georgi ‘Joro’ Kodinov (MariaDB Foundation)
Hemant Dangi (MariaDB Corporation)
Jan Lindström (MariaDB Corporation)
KhaledR57
Kristian Nielsen (MariaDB Foundation)
Marko Mäkelä (MariaDB Corporation)
Michael Widenius (MariaDB Corporation and MariaDB Foundation)
Mohammad El-Shennawy
Mohammad Tafzeel Shams (MariaDB Corporation)
nada
Oleg Smirnov (MariaDB Corporation)
Oleksandr Byelkin (MariaDB Corporation)
Otto Kekäläinen (Amazon)
Pekka Lampio (MariaDB Corporation)
Raghunandan Bhat (MariaDB Corporation)
Rex Johnston (MariaDB Corporation)
Rophy Tsai
Rucha Deodhar (MariaDB Corporation)
Seppo Jaakola (MariaDB Corporation)
Sergei Golubchik (MariaDB Corporation)
Sergey Vojtovich (MariaDB Foundation)
Srikanth Bondalapati (MariaDB Corporation)
Thirunarayanan Balathandayuthapani (MariaDB Corporation)
Tony Chen (Amazon)
Vladislav Vaintroub (MariaDB Corporation)
Vlad Lesin (MariaDB Corporation)
Yuchen Pei (MariaDB Corporation)
40 Contributors
Contributors to MariaDB 10.6.25
Akshat Nehra (Amazon)
Aleksey Midenkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexey Botchkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Andrei Elkin (MariaDB Corporation)
Aquila Macedo
Christian Hesse
Daniel Bartholomew (MariaDB Corporation)
Daniel Black (MariaDB Foundation)
Georgi ‘Joro’ Kodinov (MariaDB Foundation)
KhaledR57
Kristian Nielsen (MariaDB Foundation)
Marko Mäkelä (MariaDB Corporation)
Michael Widenius (MariaDB Corporation and MariaDB Foundation)
Mohammad Tafzeel Shams (MariaDB Corporation)
Oleg Smirnov (MariaDB Corporation)
Oleksandr Byelkin (MariaDB Corporation)
Raghunandan Bhat (MariaDB Corporation)
Rophy Tsai
Rucha Deodhar (MariaDB Corporation)
Sergei Golubchik (MariaDB Corporation)
Sergey Vojtovich (MariaDB Foundation)
Thirunarayanan Balathandayuthapani (MariaDB Corporation)
Tony Chen (Amazon)
Vladislav Vaintroub (MariaDB Corporation)
Vlad Lesin (MariaDB Corporation)
Yuchen Pei (MariaDB Corporation)
26 Contributors
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …
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We are pleased to welcome Sylvain Arbaudie as a sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.
Sylvain Arbaudie is an independent consultant with extensive experience helping organisations design reliable, scalable data infrastructures. Having worked primarily with commercial systems early in his career, Sylvain has witnessed how open source has matured into a powerful foundation for innovation, technological sovereignty, and long-term freedom—often surpassing proprietary alternatives in robustness and adaptability.
Among relational databases he has followed—MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB—Sylvain sees MariaDB as standing apart through its clarity of design, integrated ecosystem, and enterprise-grade reliability. These qualities make it a strong choice for organisations of all sizes, from individual founders to global enterprises.
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