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I hear this sentence a lot: “We care about privacy.”

Good.

But then you look a bit closer.

Files are on some cloud platform. Nobody is completely sure which settings were changed two years ago. Passwords are in browsers, in chat messages, sometimes in a document with a name like credentials-final-v3. Backups? “The provider handles that.” Maybe. Where is the data exactly? “In Europe, normally.” Who has access? That’s when the room becomes quiet.

I don’t call that a privacy strategy.

I call that hoping nothing goes wrong.

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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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We just announced the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series.

MariaDB 13.1 is a rolling release preview, and, as usual, this is the right moment to test what is coming, give feedback, and help us polish the next MariaDB Server release.

But this time, there is something really interesting.

And by “interesting”, I mean: wow!

MariaDB 13.1 Preview includes 32 MDEVs with new features and improvements. To put that in perspective:

ReleaseMDEVs

MariaDB Server 12.2	11
MariaDB Server 12.3	15
MariaDB Server 13.0	17
MariaDB Server 13.1	32

How to make Joro happy

That is almost twice MariaDB 13.0, more than twice MariaDB 12.3, and almost three times MariaDB 12.2.

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Tracking down changes in database performance is one of the hardest parts of engineering, especially when the change is buried somewhere in a long commit history.

To make this work easier and more repeatable, I put together a small but important tool:

MariaDBCommitBuilder.sh

This script does one thing well:

Given a commit hash, it checks out that commit, builds it cleanly, and packages it in a deterministic way so the Test Automation Framework (TAF) can run consistent performance tests.

Why this matters

When you are bisecting or doing a manual binary search across hundreds of commits, you need reproducible builds.

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Interview with Sylvain Arbaudie, nominated in the Technical Excellence category.

The MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program celebrates the people and organizations who help make the MariaDB ecosystem stronger, more open, and more useful for everyone.

Let’s continue the series of interviews with nominees for the MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Sylvain Arbaudie, a nominee for our “Sea Lions Champions” program in the Technical Excellence category. With over a decade of experience in the MariaDB ecosystem, Sylvain offers valuable insights into the platform’s evolution, its role in the AI landscape, and the crucial function of the MariaDB Foundation.

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On May… we have released an update of our 5 current LTS releases:

These new releases contain a large amount of external contributions. The number of contributors is constantly growing, which is great!

On behalf of the MariaDB Foundation and the entire MariaDB Team, let me thank you all!

If we refer to MariaDB Server 11.8, we have about 62 contributions from 35 external contributors.

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Continue reading “MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4, 10.11, 10.6 – May 2026’s releases: thank you for your contributions”

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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Continue reading “DuckDB Storage Engine for MariaDB. When the Sea Lion Learns to Quack.”

Interview with Mark Callaghan, nominated in the Technical Excellence category.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Callaghan, recently nominated for the MariaDB Sea Lion Champions program in the “Technical Excellence” category. Mark is a respected figure in the database community, known for his in-depth performance analysis and contributions to the open-source dialogue.