Category: Community
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MariaDB Connector/C Compatibility: An Update on CONC-821
As a DBA, there are some surprises I enjoy. Discovering a useful feature is one of them. Discovering that an application behaves differently after a maintenance update is considerably further down the list.
Maintenance updates should provide security and bug fixes while also helping people keep their applications running smoothly. Updates should not change behavior, especially not during maintenance releases. Should that happen for some reason, users and maintainers need a clear explanation and a practical way forward.
That’s not […]
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MariaDB at Percona Live Amsterdam 2026: Ecosystem, Plugins, Security, and Community
MariaDB is heading to Percona Live Amsterdam 2026! Join us for sessions on server plugins, protocol security and ecosystem building, hear independent MariaDB experiences, meet Percona’s new General Manager for MariaDB, and visit the MariaDB booth for demos and discussions with our engineers.
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MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4 and 10.11 – Q3 2026 Maintenance Releases, and Goodbye 10.6
MariaDB Server maintenance releases are here!
On August 24, we released updates for our four currently maintained Long Term Support series:
As usual, these maintenance releases include bug fixes, stability improvements, and ongoing work across MariaDB Server.
You can find the complete release notes and changelogs for each version:
MariaDB 12.3.3
MariaDB 11.8.9
MariaDB 11.4.13
MariaDB 10.11.19
If you are running one of these MariaDB Server versions, we recommend reviewing the changelog and planning your upgrade.
Wait… where is MariaDB […]
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From a Production Problem to MariaDB: Headout’s Open-Source Contribution Journey
A production bottleneck at Headout led to a new MariaDB Server improvement. This is the story of how engineers, maintainers and AI-assisted development turned a real-world problem into an upstream open-source contribution.
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Adobe Commerce Chooses MariaDB as Its Default Database Platform
Adobe Commerce is making MariaDB its default and recommended database platform.
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MariaDB Hidden Gem: Online Schema Change without pt-osc
When people hear “online schema change” in the MySQL and MariaDB world, many immediately think about pt-online-schema-change. And for good reasons: for years, changing a large table in production was one of those tasks that could ruin your day.
Recently, I discovered that MariaDB includes a very useful hidden gem I completely missed: the ability to update a table schema without blocking concurrent DML statements for the duration of the schema change. [1]
As you probably already know, MariaDB Server […]
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MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: BLOB, TEXT, JSON and GEOMETRY Support in the HEAP Engine
Some contributions improve MariaDB Server by adding new capabilities.
Some go further: they start from a concrete production problem with an existing feature, not a bug, but a design limitation, solve it upstream, and leave the whole ecosystem better off.
This is one of those contributions.
The platform team at Headout, a global platform that helps travelers discover and book curated real-life experiences, encountered a few inefficiencies in MariaDB Server around temporary tables and the HEAP engine. Instead of treating […]
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MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Federico Razzoli
Interview with Federico Razzoli, nominated in the Community Leadership 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.
Behind every open-source project, there are contributors whose work takes many forms. Some write code. Some review, test, document, teach, organize, advocate, support users, build tools, or bring MariaDB into production environments where it proves its value every day. Together, they help MariaDB remain […]