Tag Archives: September 2026

August belonged to transparency: MariaDB published its governance framework, and the first contribution statistics report in over a year put numbers on who actually builds the server. Meanwhile the Q3 maintenance releases arrived for all four supported LTS series, the first round without 10.6, and two new sponsors joined along the way. Here’s what happened.

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MariaDB Server publishes its governance framework

Open source begins with access to the code, but infrastructure that is expected to last for decades needs more: clarity on how responsibility is assigned, how decisions are made, and what happens when people disagree or move on.

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