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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB 5.5.31. This is a Stable (GA) release. See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB 5.5? page in the AskMonty Knowledgebase for general information about the MariaDB 5.5 series.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?
This release is primarily a bug-fix release.
Includes MariaDB 5.3.12 and MySQL 5.5.31
This release includes MariaDB 5.3.12 and MySQL 5.5.31. …
Back when the first version of the MariaDB Java Client was released, someone asked in the comments about the performance characteristics of the driver compared to ConnectorJ. I answered with hand-waving, saying that nobody does anything stupid, the performance of the drivers would be roughly the same, but I promised to measure it and tell the world one day. And now that day has come. The day where three MySQL JDBC drivers (ConnectorJ, MariaDB JDBC, and Drizzle JDBC) are compared against each other. Unlike the server, which gets benchmarking attention all the time, there is no standard benchmark for connectors, so I needed to improvise, while trying to keep the overhead of the server minimal. …
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Java Client 1.1.2. This is a Stable (GA) release. See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the About the MariaDB Java Client page in the AskMonty Knowledgebase for general information about the client.
Download MariaDB Java Client 1.1.2
Release Notes Changelog About the MariaDB Java Client
Bugs fixed in this release
MariaDB Java Client 1.1.2 is a bug fix release. …
Many developers use master-slave replication to solve a number of different problems, including problems with performance, supporting the backup of different databases, and as a part of a larger solution to alleviate system failures. Traditionally, master-slave replication is done with real servers, but it can also be done with cloud database servers. This guest post from Jelastic (originally published here) describes how to set up MariaDB master-slave replication using their Jelastic PaaS (Platform as a Service).
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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.2. This is an alpha release. See the release notes and changelog for details.
Release Notes Changelog Overview of 10.0
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About this Release
MariaDB 10.0 is the development version of MariaDB. It is built on the MariaDB 5.5 series with backported features from MySQL 5.6 and entirely new features not found anywhere else.
This is the third 10.0-based release, and we are releasing it now to get it into the hands of any who might want to test it. …
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.30. This is a bug fix release. See the release notes and changelog for details.
Release Notes Changelog Overview of 5.5
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User Feedback plugin
MariaDB includes a User Feedback plugin. This plugin is disabled by default. If enabled, it submits basic, completely anonymous MariaDB usage information. This information is used by the developers to track trends in MariaDB usage to better guide development efforts. …
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the following new stable (GA) MariaDB versions:
- MariaDB 5.5.29 — Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads
- MariaDB 5.3.12 — Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads
- MariaDB 5.2.14 — Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads
- MariaDB 5.1.67 — Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads
Security Updates
These releases are “bug fix” releases and they include, among other things, fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
- A buffer overflow that can cause a server crash or arbitrary code execution (a variant of CVE-2012-5611)
- CVE-2012-5627/MDEV-3915 fast password brute-forcing using the “change user” command
- CVE-2012-5615/MDEV-3909 information leakage about existing user accounts via the protocol handshake
- fixes for DoS attacks – crashes and server lockups
- These releases of MariaDB also include all applicable upstream security fixes from MySQL, such as fix for a CVE-2012-5612/MDEV-3908 and other crashes.
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The MariaDB Java Client 1.1.0 has been released. You can download it here.
This version focused on fixing all known database metadata bugs and ConnnectorJ incompatibilities. Specific fixes include:
- Consistent, compatible with ConnectorJ handling of JDBC catalogs vs schemas vs databases
- Implementation of several missing methods in DatabaseMetaData
- Better handling of statement timeouts
- OSGi-specific entries have been added to MANIFEST.MF so it can be used in OSGi environments
- Added support for dumpQueriesOnException=true in the JDBC URL
- Added support for IPv6 addresses in the connector
- Added SSL support
- and more…
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