MariaDB in Google Summer of Code 2016

And for the fourth year in a row, MariaDB Foundation participates in the Google Summer of Code! The MariaDB Organization in GSoC is an umbrella organization for all projects that belongs to the MariaDB ecosystem, be it MariaDB Server, MariaDB Connectors, or MariaDB MaxScale. The complete list of our suggested project ideas is in MariaDB Jira. This year we were granted 10 student slots (as compared to 8 last year, 5 in 2014, and 3 in 2013). And it was good, as applicants this year were exceptionally strong. Our students have chosen these projects:

For the server:

  • MDEV-7773 Aggregate Stored Functions
  • student: Varun Raiko, mentors: Sanja Byelkin and Vicențiu Ciorbaru

  • MDEV-8947 Cassandra connector support for 2.x
  • student: Charles Muurmu, mentor: Sergey Petrunia
    blog: https://cassandrastorageenginev2.wordpress.com/

  • MDEV-4989 Support for GTID in mysqlbinlog
  • student: Becca Tucker, mentors: Lixun Peng and Colin Charles

  • MDEV-9711 NO PAD collations
  • student: Daniil Medvedev, mentor: Alexander Barkov

  • MDEV-9197 Pushdown conditions into non-mergeable views/derived tables
  • student: Galina Shalygina, mentors: Igor Babaev and Sergey Petrunia
    blog: http://gsocmariadbshagalla.blogspot.ru/

  • MDEV-371 Unique indexes for blobs (server-side implementation) and adaptive hashing for generated hash
  • student: Sachin Setiya, mentor: Sergei Golubchik

  • MDEV-371 Unique indexes for blobs (in MyISAM, Aria, InnoDB, and XtraDB)
  • student: Shubham Barai, mentors: Jan Lindström and Sergei Golubchik

For the MariaDB Connector/C:

For the MariaDB MaxScale:

For the Master High Availability Manager for MySQL:

Many projects have two mentors to ensure that the student always gets a quick answer to his questions and someone is always available to help even if one of the mentors is, for example, on vacations. …

MariaDB 10.0.25 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.25. See the release notes and changelog for details on this release.

Download MariaDB 10.0.25

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.0?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.49 and updated connectors now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.49, MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.3, and MariaDB Connector/C 2.2.3. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases.

Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.49

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator


Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.3

Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/J


Download MariaDB Connector/C 2.2.3

Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/C

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

MariaDB 5.5.49 and updated connectors now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.49, MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.2, and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 2.0.10. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases.

Download MariaDB 5.5.49

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator


Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.2

Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/J


Download MariaDB Connector/ODBC 2.0.10

Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/ODBC

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

MariaDB 10.2.0 Alpha now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.2.0. This is an alpha release. See the release notes and changelog for details on this release.

Download MariaDB 10.2.0

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

MariaDB 10.1.13 and Connector/J 1.3.7 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.13, and MariaDB Connector/J 1.3.7. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases.

Download MariaDB 10.1.13

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator


Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.3.7

Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/J

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

MariaDB meetup in Helsinki on March 17th

If you are in Helsinki on Thursday next week March 17th, join us for the MariaDB meetup at Solinor. MariaDB team members will present the latest on MariaDB 10.1, MaxScale and MariaDB’s future roadmap.

On stage Rasmus Johansson VP Engineering, MariaDB Corporation and Johan Wikman & Markus Mäkelä, developers of MaxScale.

See the meetup page for the agenda and registration:
http://www.meetup.com/Helsinki-MySQL-User-Group/events/229338790/

Eating our own dog food – Running JIRA on MariaDB

A couple of weeks ago we announced that we were moving from a hosted instance of JIRA to our self hosted instance. The main reason was that we hit 2000 active users in the hosted instance of JIRA and that is the upper limit that it  supports. We obviously wanted to allow more people to be active in reporting and commenting on bugs and features for MariaDB. That’s why we set up our own instance, which now is up and running at jira.mariadb.org.

Thank you Atlassian, the company behind JIRA, for providing the hosted instance of JIRA for the MariaDB project over the last three years! …