MariaDB 11.6.2 and MariaDB 11.7.1 now available

The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.7.1, the latest rolling release Release Candidate (RC), and MariaDB 11.6.2, the latest Generally Available (GA) rolling release.

A subset of the new features in MariaDB 11.7 include:

  • Vectors
  • Optimizer improvements (including the Charset Narrowing Optimization being on by default)
  • Functions for generating version 4 and version 7 UUIDs
  • The ROW data type as a return value in stored procedures

See the release notes and changelogs for details. …

MariaDB 11.7.0 preview release available

The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.7.0, a preview of the MariaDB 11.7 series. MariaDB 11.7 will be a rolling release.

MariaDB 11.7.0 introduces numerous new features, in particular

* Functions to generate UUID version 4 and version 7. A contribution by Stefano Petrilli.
* Near-instant binlogging of large transactions (avoid copying into the binary log). A contribution by Song Libing.
* Faster crash recovery where prepared transactions are rolled back asynchronously. A contribution by Song Libing.
* Cost-based choice between subquery optimization strategies in UPDATE and DELETE
* New GIS functions: ST_Validate(), MBRCoveredBy(), ST_Simplify(), ST_GeoHash(), ST_LatFromGeoHash(), ST_LongFromGeoHash(), ST_IsValid(), ST_Collect(). …