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During the last MariaDB Foundation Board Meeting (24 June 2026), Barry shared how it can be difficult to deploy an upgrade immediately and that they sometimes have to wait for one that fixes security bugs. Wait for the validation, wait for the fix, and the release. Even if the MariaDB engineers are doing incredible work, it might still not be fast enough for the security team.

That’s where Barry requested MariaDB implement a query-rewriter plugin, like the one in MySQL, to address the fact that, in a multi-tenant environment, certain queries that would trigger known vulnerabilities are never legitimately used by applications.

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