Who are you? The history of MySQL and MariaDB authentication protocols from 1997 to 2017

MySQL 3.20 to 4.0

In the good old days, when 32MB of RAM justified the name my-huge.cnf, when nobody knew Google and Facebook didn’t even exist, security was… how do I put it… kind of cute. Computer viruses didn’t steal millions and didn’t disrupt elections — they played Yankee Doodle or told you not to play with the PC. People used telnet and ftp, although some security conscious admins already knew ssh.

Somewhere around this time, give or take a few years, MySQL was born. And it had users, who had to be kept away from seeing others’ data, but allowed to use their own. …

MariaDB 10.1.22 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.22. This is a Stable (GA) release. See the release notes and changelog for details.

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Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

MariaDB 10.0.30 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.30. This is a Stable (GA) release. See the release notes and changelog for details.

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Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.0?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

MariaDB 10.2.4 RC now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.2.4 Release Candidate (RC). See the release notes and changelog for details.

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Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator


Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

MariaDB 10.2.3 and 5.5.54 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.2.3 beta and MariaDB 5.5.54 stable (GA). See the release notes and changelogs for details.

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Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator


Download MariaDB 5.5.54

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

MariaDB 10.1.20 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.20. This is a Stable (GA) release. See the release notes and changelog for details.

Download MariaDB 10.1.20

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

MariaDB 10.1.19 and other releases now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.19, MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.28, and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 2.0.13. These are all Stable (GA) releases. See the release notes and changelogs for details.

Download MariaDB 10.1.19

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator


Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.28

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster?

2016 MariaDB Developers Meetup Presentations

I’ve collected slides and videos from several of the presentations given at the MariaDB Developers Meetup in Amsterdam, 6-8 October 2016. This meetup was kindly hosted by Booking.com. The presentations are listed here in roughly the order they were given. If I have both the slides and video for a given talk I link to both, otherwise I just link to what I have. The video is of poor quality as it was livestreamed to Periscope from a handheld mobile phone. Network issues also mean the streams sometimes dropped and had to be restarted. I will update this post as a receive slide decks from other speakers. …