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We just announced the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series. MariaDB 13.1 is a rolling release preview, and, as usual, this is the right moment to test what is coming, give feedback, and help us polish the next MariaDB Server release. … Continue reading "MariaDB 13.1 Preview: This One Is Full of Community Goodies!" The post MariaDB 13.1 Preview: This One Is Full of Community Goodies! appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

We are pleased to announce the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series. MariaDB 13.1 will be a rolling release. … Continue reading "MariaDB 13.1 preview available" The post MariaDB 13.1 preview available appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

Tracking down changes in database performance is one of the hardest parts of engineering, especially when the change is buried somewhere in a long commit history. … Continue reading "Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis" The post Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

laravel-mariadb-vector is an open-source project by Erik Ros, bringing MariaDB’s native vector search to Laravel’s Eloquent ORM. In his guest post, Erik shares how it works, and his insights about picking an embedding model. … Continue reading "MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosing an embedding model" The post MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosing an embedding model appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

TL;DR: This advisory covers the two most important high-severity memory-safety vulnerabilities affecting MongoDB Community and our downstream Percona Server for MongoDB – CVE-2026-11933 and CVE-2026-9740. Both will be addressed in a single coordinated patch release, bundled with other recently revealed lower-scored CVE fixes: CVE-2026-9753, CVE-2026-9752, CVE-2026-9751, CVE-2026-9750, CVE-2026-9749, CVE-2026-9748, CVE-2026-9747, CVE-2026-9746, CVE-2026-9743, and CVE-2026-9741. Fixes land … Continued The post Security advisory: CVE-2026-9740 and CVE-2026-11933 in Percona Server for MongoDB appeared first on Percona…. Read more

We are excited to announce the technical preview of MariaDB Exa on MariaDB Cloud. This release brings high-performance Hybrid Transactional […]… Read more

MariaDB Server 10.6 has been with us for a long time. It was the first MariaDB LTS release under the current release model, and it has served many users, distributions, applications, and production environments very well. … Continue reading "MariaDB Server 10.6 Reaches End of Life on July 6th" The post MariaDB Server 10.6 Reaches End of Life on July 6th appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

Managing data retention policies is one of the most common operational tasks in MySQL. Applications continuously generate transactional, audit, logging, telemetry, and event data. Over time, these tables can grow to billions of rows, causing: Larger backups Longer recovery times Reduced buffer pool efficiency Slower index maintenance Increased storage costs Degraded query performance To address … Continued The post Extending pt-archiver with a Partition-Aware Plug-in for Fast Retention Policy Enforcement appeared first on Percona…. Read more

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/J 3.5.9, 3.4.3, 3.3.5, and 2.7.14 releases. Download Now […]… Read more

Overview When building high-availability MySQL environments, the choice between MySQL Group Replication (GR) and Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) often comes down to how they handle the eternal database dilemma: data consistency versus performance.        While both provide “synchronous-like” replication, they approach the problem of stale reads—reading data that has been committed on one node but not … Continued The post Group Replication VS Percona XtraDB Cluster: The True Cost of Consistency appeared first on Percona…. Read more

It is time to talk again about Flow control and group replication. This time with a special eye on the use of Group Replication in the Kubernetes context. In this article we will dig a bit on how it works and what are the various side effects.    The problem Recently I was refining the … Continued The post The Failover Brownout: Rethinking High Availability in MySQL Group Replication appeared first on Percona…. Read more

Interview with Sylvain Arbaudie, nominated in the Technical Excellence category. The MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program celebrates the people and organizations who help make the MariaDB ecosystem stronger, more open, and more useful for everyone. … Continue reading "MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Sylvain Arbaudie" The post MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Sylvain Arbaudie appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

MariaDB just announced it has learned to quack: the new DuckDB storage engine has joined the large family of storage engines in MariaDB Server. … Continue reading "MariaDB + DuckDB: A New Playground for Analytics – A First Look at the New Storage Engine" The post MariaDB + DuckDB: A New Playground for Analytics – A First Look at the New Storage Engine appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

Multi-Cluster MongoDB on GKE with MCS Guide Deploying the Percona Operator for MongoDB across two GKE clusters using Multi-Cluster Services (MCS)… Read more

Somehow this news slipped past me: MariaDB has shortened the support period for the long-term releases of the MariaDB Community Server from 5 to 3 years. OK, I guess that’s not really surprising — I’ve been offline for a good month… MariaDB Server LTS Release Support Periods Release GA date EoL date Duration 12.3 28 May 2026 Jun 2029 3 years 11.8 4 Jun 2025 4 Jun 2028 3 years 11.4 29 May 2024 29 May 2029 5 years 10.11 16 Feb 2023 16 Feb 2028 5 years 10.6 6 Jul 2021 6 Jul 2026 5 years 10.5 24 Jun… Read more