Category Archives: Announcements
MariaDB Server 10.6 has been with us for a long time. It was the last MariaDB LTS released under the previous release model, and it has served many users, distributions, applications, and production environments very well.
But every maintained series eventually reaches the end of its maintenance lifetime.
MariaDB Community Server 10.6 will reach End of Life on 6 July 2026.
After that date, the MariaDB Foundation will no longer provide maintenance releases for MariaDB Community Server 10.6. That means no more bug fixes, no more security fixes, and no more corrective releases for that branch.
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An early look at the DuckDB storage engine for MariaDB — columnar, vectorized analytics that live right next to your transactional tables.
The problem
MariaDB’s InnoDB is excellent at what it was built for: transactions. Row-by-row inserts, updates, point lookups, strong consistency. But the moment you ask it to scan tens of millions of rows for a multi-way join with a few aggregations, a row store has to work hard.
The usual answer is to stand up a separate analytical system, then build ETL pipelines to copy data into it.
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If you are a Galera user, you are strongly recommended to upgrade ASAP!
MariaDB Community Server corrective releases are now available for the currently maintained long-term series. These releases address critical CVEs, and we strongly recommend that all users review the security advisories and upgrade as soon as possible.
These are Stable (GA) releases and are recommended for users running the corresponding MariaDB Server series.
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS, the latest Long Term Support release of MariaDB Server. The first GA of the 12.3 series is 12.3.2.
MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS includes the features and improvements introduced during the MariaDB 12.x development series and provides a stable release line for production environments requiring long-term maintenance.
Highlights
MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS includes improvements across several areas of the server, including binary logging, SQL compatibility, replication, optimizer behavior, security, GIS, JSON, and general server usability.
Important
In MariaDB 12.3, innodb_snapshot_isolation defaults to ON
As we wanted to be correct when using REPEATBLE READ isolation level, we changed the default of the InnoDB snapshot isolation.
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We are very pleased to welcome ProxySQL as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.
ProxySQL is the leading proxy for MySQL and has recently focused on supporting more and more of MariaDB, both with the Proxy and with other open-source projects ProxySQL is stewarding, like dbdeployer and orchestrator.
I had the chance to interview René Cannaò, CEO of ProxySQL.
Why is it important for ProxySQL to sponsor an organization like the MariaDB Foundation?
ProxySQL was born within the MySQL ecosystem, and MariaDB has always been an important part of it.
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As you know, MySQL-Sandbox and then dbdeployer have always been part of the Swiss Army knife for DBAs trying to evaluate, test, or reproduce issues with a certain version of their database.
The author, Giuseppe Maxia, aka the datacharmer, produced incredible work on these two projects. Unfortunately, Giuseppe decided to archive the project in 2023. Read the announcement.
But finally, someone has decided to take up the torch. ProxySQL announced this big decision last month.
We at the MariaDB Foundation are very happy that dbdeployer has risen from the ashes thanks to the ProxySQL team, and we are committed to further developing and contributing to this great tool for all its users, especially those who use it to deploy MariaDB Server.
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Over the past month, one question has been coming up with increasing frequency:
What is the MySQL / MariaDB ecosystem?
In most discussions, the answer tends to focus on contributors to the source code: engineers, committers, and core developers shaping the database itself. That perspective is both valid and essential.
But it is only part of the picture.
Over the past few months, we have been looking at the ecosystem from a different angle:
What is being built around MariaDB?
Where is it being used?
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Kurt Daniel, five-time CEO and current CEO of Virtuozzo, to its Board—bringing in a perspective shaped at the very heart of the database industry.
Kurt’s career spans leadership roles at MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server, where he helped drive both strategy and market expansion at scale. At MongoDB, he was part of the journey that turned an emerging open source project into a category-defining company. At Microsoft, he built and led a product management team for a database portfolio generating over $1.5 billion in revenue.
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