Category: News
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MariaDB 5.2 is released as stable
I am happy to announce that MariaDB 5.2.3 is now released as a stable release.
During the gamma period we did not receive any serious reports for issues in 5.2, so we are relatively confident that the new code is of decent quality.
You can read about the features of MariaDB 5.2 in my previous blog entry or in the fast growing MariaDB knowledgebase..
What is most interesting about MariaDB 5.2 is that most of the features came from the […]
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MariaDB 5.2 has been released
Dear MariaDB users, MariaDB 5.2, a branch of the MySQL database which includes all major open source storage engines, myriad bug fixes and many community patches, has been released. It has all changes up to MySQL 5.1.51.
For an overview of what’s new in MariaDB 5.2.3, please see the release notes (5.2.2, 5.2.1, and 5.2.0 also).
MariaDB 5.2 includes a number of user enhancements including:
- Improved user statistics which help understand server activity better and identify the source of the load
- VIRTUAL and PERSISTENT virtual columns
- Group commit in the Aria storage engine (the engine formerly known as the Maria engine)
- Pluggable authentication
- Segmented key cache for MyISAM to improve performance
- Two new storage engines: OQGRAPH and an interface to the full-text search engine Sphinx by way of SphinxSE. These are in addition to the new storage engines PBXT, FederatedX, XtraDB and Aria that were added in 5.1. Here is a list of all storage engines in MariaDB.
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Email services are down at the moment
If you’re trying to email anyone at @askmonty.org or @montyprogram.com, you’ll notice that you’re getting a bounce. No, we’ve not disappeared from the face of the earth – we’re just having issues with our ISP. We’re still writing code to make MariaDB better, we even managed to sneak in a release of MariaDB (yes, 5.2 is now released – download 5.2.3 now!)
We’ll keep you updated on the situation as our ISP fixes the problem.
Update: 12/11/2010, 8.15am UTC – […]
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5.2.2 is around the corner
I’ve just pushed the last batch of changes into 5.2 tree. The most important change was renaming Maria engine to Aria (with old maria* compatibility variables). Other — smaller — changes included adding all plugins to the windows .zip distribution (sphinx and oqgraph too), building mysqld.exe with federatedx, not old federated engine, refactoring of mysql-test-run suite to support pluggable per-suite extensions, print the plugin configuration in the ./configure script, and other even smaller changes. Together with all bug fixes that 5.2 has […]
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The “MySQL 5.1 Plugins Development” book is finally published
If you want to know more about MySQL and MariaDB plugins read below. Our (Andrew Hutchings and mine) book MySQL 5.1 Plugins Development was just published by Packt. As far as I know it’s the first and the only book completely dedicated to MySQL Plugin API. It covers all existing in 5.1 plugin types, from Daemon to Storage Engines, and does not shun from explaining less known or poorly understood features of the plugin API. It describes newer plugin API […]
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Mirroring MariaDB
We rely on a network of mirrors to efficiently distribute MariaDB to the world. It would be impossible for us to distribute MariaDB without the assistance of our mirrors. Thank you!
Today we’d like to announce that thanks to the generosity of the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, mirroring MariaDB is faster and easier than ever.
If you have some extra hard drive space and spare bandwidth, please consider becoming a mirror. Instructions on how you can become an […]
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MariaDB 5.1.50 Released
Dear MariaDB users,
MariaDB 5.1.50, a branch of the MySQL database which includes all major open source storage engines, myriad bug fixes, and many community patches, has been released. MariaDB: Community developed, feature enhanced, backward compatible.
For an overview of what’s new in MariaDB 5.1.50, please see the release notes.
Highlights include MariaDB 5.1.50 based on MySQL 5.1.50, includes XtraDB 5.1.49-12, and have some bug fixes in the Aria storage engine. For finer grained details, please view the changelog.
MariaDB […]
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Rename Maria Contest Winner
After two months of submissions, Monty Program employee review, community voting and Monty’s final decision, we are happy to announce that the Maria storage engine will henceforth be known as …
Aria!
Congratulations to Chris Tooley who suggested the name. Chris said about Aria in his submission, “Maria without the ‘M’, plus aria is a pleasant musical term.” Chris is now the proud new owner of a System 76 Meerkat net-top computer. Thanks to our good friends at System76 for […]