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MariaDB Server has long supported a flexible plugin architecture. Plugins allow developers to extend server functionality in areas such as data types, auditing, storage engines, information schema tables, and more.
Today, MariaDB Server plugins are typically developed in C or C++, like the server’s codebase. At least for a while
Even with the current plugin-writing approach, familiarity with MariaDB internals is beneficial because it enables you to do things you otherwise cannot. But it is not required.
A new development idea, MDEV-40189: Support plugins written in various languages, explores whether MariaDB Server could make plugin development accessible from additional programming languages.
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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.
Today, we’re thrilled to introduce Fariha, a recent nominee for the MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champion program in the Technical Excellence category. Fariha’s journey into the world of databases and open-source contributions is both inspiring and a testament to the vibrant MariaDB community. We sat down with Fariha to discuss her path, her work, and what this nomination means to her.
The Interview
lefred: Fariha, congratulations on your nomination for the MariaDB Foundation Seal Lion Champion program in the Technical Excellence category!
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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:
| 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:
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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