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At MariaDB Foundation, we are proud of MariaDB Server getting plenty of contributions. But we don’t want to get cocky, so here is an update about where we stand, and what we want to make happen.

First, we have shown our contribution pride in several places. On 15 February 2019, I tweeted

On code contributions, #MariaDB beats #MySQL 1009 to 247: We have over a thousand (1009) closed pull requests on github (and 179 open), MySQL has 247 closed (1 open). https://t.co/32NIuMMTvc pic.twitter.com/ZZcRBdk939

— Kaj Arnö (@kajarno) February 15, 2019

Repeating: On code contributions, #MariaDB beats #MySQL 1009 to 247: We have over a thousand (1009) closed pull requests on GitHub (and 179 open), MySQL has 247 closed (1 open).

In our Annual Report 2018, we spent several pages, talking about pull requests and patches, showing code contribution statistics. …

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MariaDB Server 10.4 came with a whole lot of Security related changes. Some of them are merely optimizations (like MDEV-15649), some improve existing features to be more robust (MDEV-15473, MDEV-7598) or convenient (MDEV-12835, MDEV-16266). Some are MySQL compatibility features, requested by our users (MDEV-7597, MDEV-13095).

But the first thing any MariaDB Server user, whether an experienced veteran or a newbie, does — before even issuing the first SQL statement — is logging in. Authenticating to the database server. …

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Security is one of the hottest topics in Computer Software today, everybody handles highly valuable data. From private personal data, medical records for clinics to customers credit card information for online bussinesses, malicious data breaches are always part of the worst case scenario.
Robert Bindar (robert@mariadb.org) is going to present a session at the 2019 MariaDB Unconference, New York about two new security features in the MariaDB Server: User Account Locking and Password Expiration.

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.59. This is a stable (GA) release. See the release notes and changelog for details.

Download MariaDB 5.5.59

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.2.12, the next stable release in the 10.2 series. See the release notes and changelogs for details.

Download MariaDB 10.2.12

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.2.11. See the release notes and changelogs for details.

Download MariaDB 10.2.11

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.58, as well as the recent release of MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.0.2.

These are both stable (GA) releases. See the release notes and changelog for details.

Download MariaDB 5.5.58

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Download MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.0.2

Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/ODBC

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

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