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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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We are delighted to welcome Tempesta Technologies as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation!
Tempesta Technologies is the developer of Tempesta FW, an open-source hybrid of a web accelerator and a multi-layer firewall. Engineered for maximum efficiency, Tempesta FW is tightly integrated with the Linux TCP/IP stack and leverages cutting-edge technologies to deliver exceptional web application performance. It provides robust protection against DDoS and web attacks while ensuring smooth, high-speed operation under normal conditions.
This partnership underscores MariaDB Server’s continued commitment to performance and efficiency—not just in terms of database speed and scalability, but across the broader ecosystem that powers modern web infrastructure.
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We are excited to announce that Vettabase has joined the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor!
Vettabase is a trusted provider of database consulting services, with a strong focus on open-source technologies. Their team brings deep expertise in MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Cassandra, helping organizations around the world optimize database performance, reliability, and scalability.
Vettabase has long been an active contributor to the MariaDB ecosystem. They maintain the widely appreciated Awesome MariaDB list on GitHub—a curated collection of tools, articles, and learning resources for the MariaDB community.
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We’ve made significant progress on MariaDB Catalogs, and while there’s still work to be done, we’re excited to offer the community an easy way to try out our preview release. You no longer need to compile the source code yourself—just use our prebuilt containers, now available on our official quay.io development registry.
The code is available publicly on Github, in a separate repo compared to the official MariaDB Server (until the feature gets published as part of an official MariaDB Server release)
Documentation is available on the Knowledge Base.
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We are excited to announce a hackathon with MariaDB Vector and Python. Since we are reaching outside our bubble, let’s start from the beginning:
MariaDB, the open-source database powers the world’s most demanding applications, from Wikipedia to global financial institutions. Now MariaDB Vector is bringing AI-ready vector search natively into the open-source database world. MySQL users ahoy:
Our hackathon is your chance to explore AI possibilities with MariaDB Vector and Python. Whether you’re a developer, data scientist, or AI enthusiast, MariaDB Foundation invites you to build innovative AI applications, compete for prizes, and showcase your work.
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.8.1, the Release Candidate (RC) in the long-term MariaDB 11.8 release, and MariaDB 11.7.2, the latest Generally Available (GA) rolling release.
See the release notes and changelogs for details, as well as the MariaDB 11.8.LTS announcement.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.8?
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.7?
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Confirming what you probably already expected: MariaDB Server 11.8 will be a long-term support release.
Now a Release Candidate – GA in May
With MariaDB Vector as the lead new feature, MariaDB 11.8 succeeds the previous LTS MariaDB 11.4 from a year ago.
As of now, MariaDB 11.8 is at the Release Candidate stage, with GA planned for May.
Lots of new features since MariaDB 11.4
MariaDB 11.8 has about 60 features, large and small, on top of the previous LTS, MariaDB 11.4. At our recent MariaDB Day on 1 Feb 2025 in Brussels, MariaDB Corporation Chief Architect Sergei Golubchik gave an overview of 11.8.
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