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We are pleased to announce the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 12.1 series. MariaDB 12.1 will be a rolling release.
MariaDB 12.1 introduces numerous new features, in particular
Performance improvements
- Segmented key cache for Aria (MDEV-24)
- MDL scalability improvements (MDEV-19749)
- Parallel replication for galera replicas (MDEV-20065)
- Buffered logging for audit plugin (MDEV-34680)
- Faster vector distance calculations via extrapolation (MDEV-36205)
Compatibility features
- caching_sha2_password plugin (MDEV-9804)
- ( + ) for outer join syntax (MDEV-13817)
- rpl_semi_sync_master_wait_for_slave_count (MDEV-18983)
- Associative arrays: DECLARE TYPE ..
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Accelerating Digital Transformation Through Open Source Innovation
The MariaDB Foundation is proud to welcome Crest Infosolutions LLC as a Silver Sponsor, marking a significant step forward in fostering enterprise-grade open-source adoption. This partnership underscores Crest’s mission to deliver robust, secure, and scalable technologies that empower global organizations to thrive in the era of digital transformation.
Driving Open Source Adoption Across Enterprises
Crest Infosolutions brings over a decade of experience in delivering open-source excellence to its clients. Crest is already a long-standing partner of MariaDB plc and, by joining the MariaDB Foundation’s ecosystem of supporters, Crest reinforces its long-standing commitment to open technologies, developer collaboration, and sustainable innovation.
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We’re delighted to welcome Releem as the newest Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation!
Releem is a database performance management platform that helps teams ensure consistent and reliable database performance through continuous profiling, configuration tuning, and SQL query optimization. It brings together everything needed to streamline monitoring and performance improvements — all in one place.
With support for MariaDB, MySQL, Percona, and AWS Aurora, Releem works seamlessly across on-premise deployments (Linux, Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-managed environments such as AWS RDS.
“We built Releem to simplify database performance management and eliminate the guesswork from tuning and optimization.
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We are thrilled to welcome Scarf as a Gold Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation!
Scarf’s commitment to improving open source distribution and visibility aligns closely with our mission to ensure the continued openness, innovation, and sustainability of MariaDB Server. As a platform that helps open-source projects understand and grow their user base, Scarf brings unique value to the ecosystem—not just through sponsorship, but through actionable insights that benefit the broader community.
For the MariaDB Foundation, understanding who uses MariaDB—and how, where, and why—is key to making better decisions. Scarf’s privacy conscious analytics help us move beyond assumptions and anecdotes, giving us real-world data to guide our outreach, improve our documentation, tailor our events, and strengthen our developer ecosystem.
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Now is a good time to upgrade to the freshest MariaDB Server. MariaDB 11.8 is the yearly long term support release for 2025. It’s the first LTS with support for MariaDB Vector, and it includes a number of other updates based on user requests. You can seamlessly upgrade to MariaDB 11.8 from MariaDB 11.4 (the previous LTS) or any older release, back to MariaDB Server 10.0 or earlier, including most versions of MySQL Server.
MariaDB 11.8 LTS includes everything added since 11.4, incorporating changes from 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, as well as new features not released before.
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We welcome Senticore Technologies as a Silver Sponsor. Senticore, a leader in engineering and manufacturing applications, focuses on cutting-edge AI solutions, particularly for the aerospace and defense sectors, and powers critical systems worldwide. Senticore addresses these sectors’ concerns with locally deployed LLMs. Their platform integrates PDFs related to manufacturing, maintenance, and inspections processes into the digital thread. MariaDB supports their data-intensive workloads, crucial for high performance, reliability, and security, and its Vector capabilities are particularly important to Senticore’s AI development, enabling efficient storage and retrieval of LLM vector embeddings.
Senticore Technologies is renowned for pushing innovation in complex technical domains.
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We’re excited to welcome RAVATAR as our Silver Sponsor! A bold innovator in artificial intelligence, RAVATAR is defining the emerging Face of AI through high-quality interactive digital humans and real-time AI avatars.
By crafting AI that communicates with emotion, insight, and purpose, RAVATAR advances its mission to humanize technology, making tech feel like a conversation rather than a command.
Their support for open-source communities like ours speaks to a clear commitment to shared innovation, radical transparency, and AI that puts people first. This partnership resonates deeply with our own AI ambitions, especially the development of MariaDB Vector, which brings scalable vector search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities into the hands of developers worldwide.
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We’re pleased to welcome Kinsta as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation. Kinsta, one of the leading managed WordPress hosting providers, powers thousands of websites globally with a platform built for speed, scalability, and security — and MariaDB plays a central role in that architecture.
Kinsta also holds the highest G2 score of any managed hosting provider or web hosting provider. In 2022, the company was listed under the “Top 100 Fastest Growing Products.” Kinsta offers 24/7 support 365 days a year – in five languages – from its team of expert engineers. With its new Application Hosting and Database Hosting services, plus hosting for WordPress that offers support for complex installations such as Bedrock, reverse-proxy configurations, and tools such as SSH and WP-CLI, its entire platform is built with developers in mind.
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