Announcements Archives

MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Continuent as a new Silver Sponsor.

Continuent develops solutions for organizations running business-critical applications on MariaDB and other MySQL-compatible databases. Its flagship product, Tungsten Cluster, helps organizations manage database availability, disaster recovery and distributed deployments across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.

The company has worked with open-source database technologies for more than two decades and brings extensive experience from demanding production environments across SaaS, financial services, telecommunications, e-commerce and other industries.

“Continuent has a long history in the MariaDB and wider open-source database ecosystem.

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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Nextcloud has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year.

Nextcloud and MariaDB are widely used together by organisations that want greater control over their data and infrastructure. Both projects form part of a broader open-source ecosystem that enables businesses, public-sector organisations and individuals to build digital services without unnecessary dependence on proprietary platforms.

Over the past year, our collaboration has also developed through the Privacy-First Solution Stack, which brings together Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server in a practical open-source architecture for secure collaboration, password management and data storage.

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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Passbolt has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year, continuing its long-term support for the MariaDB open-source ecosystem.

Passbolt is an open-source password manager designed for teams, with a strong focus on security, privacy, and user control. Its continued support reflects a shared commitment to building practical, trustworthy open-source infrastructure that organizations can deploy and operate with confidence.

Building on the Privacy-First Stack

During the first year of collaboration, Passbolt became part of the Privacy-First Solution Stack alongside Nextcloud and MariaDB Server.

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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Aqtra Platform as a new Gold Sponsor.

Aqtra is a Development Infrastructure Layer (DIL) platform for building ERP solutions, business applications, internal and external portals, and workflows that connect multiple systems. The platform provides the underlying architecture, governance, integration, and runtime capabilities required to develop and operate business applications at scale, helping organisations automate complex processes without building and maintaining every application from scratch.

As part of the next stage of its platform evolution, Aqtra has selected MariaDB Server as the strategic database foundation for its next-generation architecture.

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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.