Tag: security
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MariaDB at Percona Live Amsterdam 2026: Ecosystem, Plugins, Security, and Community
MariaDB is heading to Percona Live Amsterdam 2026! Join us for sessions on server plugins, protocol security and ecosystem building, hear independent MariaDB experiences, meet Percona’s new General Manager for MariaDB, and visit the MariaDB booth for demos and discussions with our engineers.
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Protect your data with MariaDB Server and Intel® TDX
In 2023, Intel launched Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX), their latest Confidential Computing technology that ensures data in use protection for hardware-isolated virtual machines and verified hardware and software integrity through attestation.
In this blog post, we will show that MariaDB Server can run correctly on an Intel® TDX enabled VM and that the in-memory data is protected from outside actors, even from the host OS running the VM. By coupling Intel’s Confidential Computing technology with MariaDB Server build […]
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MariaDB Dump File Compatibility Change
Both MariaDB and MySQL have been around a long time now, and there is always a difficult balance between maintaining compatibility whilst also solving security issues that arise. With the latest bugfix releases of MariaDB, we had to break compatibility a little to improve security, but there are workarounds. We figured we should explain the reasons behind it and how to make things as painless as possible for you.
The Problem
The problem we were solving, and for various reasons […]
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Mission Impossible: Zero-Configuration SSL
SSL (let’s call it that, even though SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0 were long replaced by TLS 1.0–1.3 protocols) support was implemented in MySQL in 2001, so MariaDB (born in 2009) always had it. But over more than twenty years of SSL support there was one huge problem with it. It required tedious manual configuration, so most users never bothered and accepted the fact that their queries and data were sent unprotected. Which might have been slightly risky in 2001, […]
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Quick peek: MariaDB Galera Cluster Security talk
Seppo Jaakola is going to present the topic “MariaDB Galera Cluster Security” at the Security MariaDB Server Fest (Wed 6 April 2022).
I’m currently watching his talk. Let me share with you some details. Seppo is not talking about native MariaDB security features that are by default supported by Galera, but due to the distributed cluster topology additional security related measures are needed. He talks about cluster topology, cluster communication security, Galera enhancement Data at REST encryption and the new […]
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10.7 preview feature: Password Reuse Check plugin
By default, MariaDB does not check if a user reuses a password. Some security policies require users to choose a new password each time, and the Password Reuse Check plugin, available in a MariaDB 10.7.0 preview, enables this functionality.
Old passwords are stored in the mysql.password_reuse_check_history table, and the period they are retained for is determined by the password-reuse-check-interval system variable, which specifies a number of days. By default this is zero, meaning unlimited retention.
The password can be used […]
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MariaDB 10.4.13, 10.3.23, 10.2.32, 10.1.45 and 5.5.68 now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.4.13, MariaDB 10.3.23, MariaDB 10.2.32, MariaDB 10.1.45 and MariaDB 5.5.68, the latest stable releases in their respective series.
This is the final release of MariaDB 5.5, and MariaDB 5.5 will no longer receive any updates or bugfixes.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Download MariaDB 10.4.13
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.4?
Download MariaDB 10.3.23
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.3?
Download MariaDB 10.2.32
Release […]
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MariaDB 10.4.5 Now Available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.4.5, the second MariaDB 10.4 release candidate.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Download MariaDB 10.4.5
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.4?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Contributors to MariaDB 10.4.5
Aleksey Midenkov (Tempesta) Alexander Barkov (MariaDB Corporation) Alexey Botchkov (MariaDB Corporation) Andrea Kao Andrei Elkin (MariaDB Corporation) Anel Husakovic (MariaDB Foundation) Daniel Bartholomew (MariaDB Corporation) Daniel Black (IBM) Elena Stepanova (MariaDB Corporation) Eugene […]