Category: News
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MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – September 2026
August belonged to transparency: MariaDB published its governance framework, and the first contribution statistics report in over a year put numbers on who actually builds the server. Meanwhile the Q3 maintenance releases arrived for all four supported LTS series, the first round without 10.6, and two new sponsors joined along the way. Here’s what happened.
Lead story
MariaDB Server publishes its governance framework
Open source begins with access to the code, but infrastructure that is expected to last for decades […]
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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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Seravo becomes a Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation is delighted to welcome Seravo as a Silver Sponsor, turning a long-standing relationship in the open-source ecosystem into formal support for the future of MariaDB.
Seravo is a Finland-based specialist in premium hosting and upkeep for WordPress and WooCommerce. Open source sits at the heart of its technology stack and its company culture, and MariaDB has been part of that story for many years.
MariaDB behind the WordPress ecosystem
For hosting providers, databases are not an abstract technology […]
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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Auree as a Silver Sponsor.
Auree is building a cloud-independent platform for deploying and operating highly available open source databases, including MariaDB, inside customers’ own cloud accounts. Its Bring Your Own Cloud model allows organisations to choose their cloud provider, region, infrastructure size, and security environment while Auree automates database provisioning, monitoring, backups, clustering, and failover.
This approach addresses a growing concern among organisations adopting managed database services: how to gain the operational benefits of the cloud without surrendering control of their data, infrastructure, or […]
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye: A Guide to MariaDB’s Governance Model
Be it known: MariaDB Server now has a clearer, publicly documented governance framework covering technical roles, subsystem ownership, decision-making, response expectations and continuity.
Open source begins with access to the code. Yet for infrastructure expected to remain dependable for many years, openness must also extend to how responsibility is assigned, how decisions are made, and what happens when people disagree or move on.
The framework formalises much of how the project has long worked, while making its responsibilities, decision paths […]
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Wirekite becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation
We are pleased to welcome Wirekite as a new Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation.
Wirekite is an enterprise data movement platform focused on high-performance extract, load, migration, and replication workflows. Its technology helps organisations move data across database systems and keep data fresh between operational systems, analytics platforms, and application environments.
For MariaDB users, this matters because data movement is often part of real-world database adoption. Organisations do not choose databases in isolation. They need practical ways to migrate, replicate, […]
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ScalaHosting Becomes a Gold Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation
Global cloud hosting provider supports the continued development and adoption of open-source MariaDB
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome ScalaHosting as a Gold Sponsor, strengthening the relationship between the MariaDB community and one of the hosting industry’s established cloud infrastructure providers.
ScalaHosting provides managed cloud VPS, web hosting and high-availability hosting services to customers around the world. Its platforms support MariaDB as a database option for websites, applications and online businesses, giving developers and organisations access to open-source database technology […]
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IBM continues as a Platinum Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation
We are delighted to announce that IBM is continuing its support of MariaDB Foundation as a Platinum Sponsor.
IBM’s sponsorship brings together two major enterprise computing platforms, IBM® Power® and IBM Z®, reflecting a shared interest in ensuring that MariaDB Server remains available, well tested and relevant across a broad range of architectures and demanding production environments.
Open source across enterprise platforms
MariaDB Server is used in environments ranging from individual developer machines and cloud infrastructure to business-critical enterprise systems. […]