MariaDB 12.1 preview available
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 .. TABLE OF .. INDEX BY (MDEV-34319)
- DROP USER fails if the user has active session (MDEV-35617)
- Optimizer hints: [NO_]JOIN_INDEX, [NO_]GROUP_INDEX, [NO_]ORDER_INDEX, [NO_]INDEX (MDEV-35856)
- Optimizer hints: [NO_]SPLIT_MATERIALIZED (MDEV-36092)
- Optimizer hints: [NO_]DERIVED_CONDITION_PUSHDOWN, [NO_]MERGE (MDEV-36106)
Miscellaneous
- Retry applying of write sets on galera nodes (MDEV-36077)
- Wildcard support in mariadb-dump (MDEV-21376)
- Per-table unique FOREIGN KEY constraint names (MDEV-28933)
- Remove depth limit from JSON functions (MDEV-32854)
- Support for functional indexes in GROUP/ORDER BY (MDEV-36132)
- Include definitions of tables and views in the optimizer trace (MDEV-36483)
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
