Things are definitely a little quieter here in MariaDB land as many people embark on summer vacations to rest and recharge. However we will be at OSCON 2012. We have a booth in the non-profit/projects pavilion, amazing amounts of schwag, and the famous black vodka that Monty always brings with him. We plan to have a BoF on Thursday evening (come to D135 at 8pm), and we will be at the MySQL BoF on Wednesday evening as well, just for good measure.

Come say hi. Come tell us how you’re using MariaDB. Come tell us what you want from MariaDB. Come tell us why you switched. Or what we can do to make you switch. It should be all round fun.

See you next week!

If you’re not on the announce mailing list (low traffic) or following us on Facebook, you’ve missed the announcement of MariaDB 5.5.24 (release notes, changelog). Highlights include:

  • Includes all changes up to MariaDB 5.3.7 and MySQL 5.5.24
  • We’re providing RPM packages for RHEL/CentOS 5 & 6, as well as a YUM repository
  • Ubuntu 12.04 has been released, so we have “Precise” packages
  • There are now BSD 9 and Mac OS X 10.5 binaries as well

Many new ways to get and use MariaDB, download MariaDB 5.5.24 and let us know how you’re liking it.