New MariaDB Foundation staff member sponsored by Alibaba: Lixun Peng

The MariaDB Foundation is happy to announce that today a new staff member, Lixun Peng, has started working as a Senior Developer of MariaDB. Lixun’s work is sponsored by Alibaba, and he also holds the title of Staff Database Engineer at Alibaba Cloud.

Alibaba is a China-based e-commerce company founded in 1999. It has grown to be one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world with a market value of over 200 billion euros. There are more than one hundred thousand mysqld instances in Alibaba Cloud RDS (Alibaba’s database cloud service). Through its history, Alibaba has used MySQL/MariaDB and has now also sponsored the MariaDB Foundation. …

MariaDB 5.5.53 and Connector/J 1.5.4 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.53 and MariaDB Connector/J 1.5.4. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases.

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Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.5.4 Stable (GA)

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MariaDB 10.1.18 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.18. This is a Stable (GA) release. See the release notes and changelog for details.

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MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

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MariaDB 10.2.2 Beta now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.2.2 Beta. This is the first beta release in the MariaDB 10.2 series. See the release notes and changelog for details.

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MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.52 and Connector/ODBC 2.0.12 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.52 and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 2.0.12. Both are Stable (GA) releases. See the release notes and changelog for details on theses releases.

IMPORTANT: There was a security fix included in the 5.5.51 release of MariaDB and MariaDB Galera Cluster. If you are running 5.5.50 or lower, please upgrade to at least 5.5.51 right away. See the MariaDB 5.5.51 release notes and this blog post for more details.

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MariaDB 5.5.52 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.52. See the release notes and changelog for details on this release.

IMPORTANT: There was a security fix included in the 5.5.51 release of MariaDB. If you are running MariaDB 5.5.50 or lower, please upgrade to at least MariaDB 5.5.51 right away. See the MariaDB 5.5.51 release notes and this blog post for more details.

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Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

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MariaDB Server versions and the Remote Root Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2016-6662

During the recent days there has been quite a lot of questions and discussion around a vulnerability referred to as MySQL Remote Root Code Execution / Privilege Escalation 0day with CVE code CVE-2016-6662. It’s a serious vulnerability and we encourage every MariaDB Server user to read the below update on the vulnerability from a MariaDB point of view.

The vulnerability can be exploited by both local and remote users. Both an authenticated connection to or SQL injection in an affected version of MariaDB Server can be used to exploit the vulnerability. If successful, a library file could be loaded and executed with root privileges. …

MariaDB Connector/J 1.5.2 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Connector/J 1.5.2 Stable (GA).

This is the first stable release in the MariaDB Connector/J 1.5 series and includes several new features including a native SSPI Windows implementation, support for TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2, Aurora host auto-discovery, “LOAD DATA INFILE” interceptors, performance improvements, bug fixes, and more. See the release notes and changelog for all the details on this release.

Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.5.2 Stable (GA)

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