Category Archives: Announcements
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.8.4, MariaDB 11.4.9, MariaDB 10.11.5 and MariaDB 10.6.24, the latest stable releases in their respective long-term series (receiving regular maintenance and support for three years from their first stable release dates, and critical security fixes as source code releases for two additional years beyond).
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog Overview of MariaDB 11.8
Release Notes Changelog Overview of MariaDB 11.4
Release Notes Changelog Overview of MariaDB 11.8
Release Notes Changelog Overview of MariaDB 11.8
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator
Contributors to MariaDB 11.8.4
Aleksey Midenkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexander Barkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexey Botchkov (MariaDB Corporation)
Alexey Yurchenko (Codership)
Andrei Elkin (MariaDB Corporation)
Arcadiy Ivanov
Brandon Nesterenko (MariaDB Corporation)
Christian Hesse
Daniel Bartholomew (MariaDB Corporation)
Daniel Black (MariaDB Foundation)
Dave Gosselin (MariaDB Corporation)
Debarun Banerjee (MariaDB Corporation)
Denis Protivensky (Codership)
Dmitry Shulga (MariaDB Corporation)
Elena Stepanova (MariaDB Corporation)
Fariha Shaikh (Amazon)
Florian Smeets (FreeBSD)
Hemant Dangi (Codership)
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Jan Lindström (MariaDB Corporation)
Jean Weisbuch
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We are excited to announce that Wolf Software Systems Ltd has joined the MariaDB Foundation as a new Silver sponsor! Their support helps strengthen our shared mission of advancing open-source database technology, and we warmly welcome them into our community.
Who are Wolf Software Systems Ltd?
Our active intelligence platform (AIP) “IntelligentWolf” is designed for businesses that have outgrown rigid systems. While passive analytics tools like Power BI are read-only, Intelligentwolf connects your entire tech stack into a single layer that can both read and write data and analyse with AI and vector embedding.
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We want to know how you’re really using MariaDB. Not the marketing version. Not the idealized case study. The real story—what you’re building, what tools you’re using, what’s working, and what’s frustrating.
So we built a survey. Take the survey now, or read on.
Why This Matters
Your responses will help shape:
- MariaDB roadmap priorities
- Documentation and tutorials
- Tooling development
- A public report on how MariaDB is actually being used in 2025
After running pilots, we’re genuinely excited about the insights we are uncovering.
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MariaDB Foundation is delighted to announce that Passbolt has joined as a Silver Sponsor, further strengthening the European open source ecosystem.Passbolt is the European open source platform for secure credential collaboration. It can be used for managing passwords, secrets, and privileged accesses. Passbolt is built for security-conscious tech teams while remaining usable by everyone. It adapts to a large variety of use cases, from IT and DevOps workflows to organization-wide credential management. It supports secure collaboration with granular access controls, and can be self-hosted to meet data sovereignty and compliance needs. Today, more than 50,000 organizations, including governments, startups and regulated companies, use Passbolt everyday to protect their most critical credentials while retaining transparency, control, and auditability.
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We are pleased to announce the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 12.2 series. MariaDB 12.2 will be a rolling release.
MariaDB 12.2 introduces numerous new features, in particular
Compatibility features
- TO_NUMBER() function (MDEV-20022)
- TRUNC() function (MDEV-20023)
- Global Temporary Tables (MDEV-35915)
- Optimizer hints: [NO_]ROWID_FILTER (MDEV-36089)
- Optimizer hints: [NO_]INDEX_MERGE (MDEV-36125)
- INFORMATION_SCHEMA table TRIGGERED_UPDATE_COLUMNS (MDEV-36996)
- Optimizer hints support for named query blocks and views (MDEV-37511)
Miscellaneous
- INFORMATION_SCHEMA table PARAMETERS has a new column PARAMETER_DEFAULT (MDEV-37054)
- Improved support of replication between tables of different structure (MDEV-36290)
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
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In the ancient tale of Scheherazade, it was not strength of arms or riches of gold that saved her life, but the power of storytelling. Each night, she told the king a tale so compelling that he postponed her execution — and by dawn after dawn, her stories not only spared her life but softened his heart and ultimately saved both her life and the kingdom itself.
So it is with us. Technology can be measured in benchmarks and features, yet what truly gives it meaning is its use — in businesses, in communities, in projects large and small.
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We are delighted to announce that Mydbops has joined the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor!
Mydbops is a trusted leader in open-source database consulting, empowering organizations worldwide to design, optimize, and scale their MySQL and MariaDB environments. Our dedication to operational excellence and community-driven innovation aligns seamlessly with the MariaDB Foundation’s mission to promote openness, adoption, and continuous advancement of MariaDB.
This partnership reinforces the importance of service providers and consultants in the MariaDB ecosystem and marks another step forward in our commitment to open collaboration.
Thank you, Mydbops, for your support and trust.
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Diegesis, the London-based business and technology consultancy, is pleased to announce that it has joined the non-profit MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor to ensure one of the world’s most popular database servers – that also powers Wikipedia – remains free of charge and accessible to all. The MariaDB Server is a general-purpose open-source Relational Database Management System (DBMS) that relies solely on funding from benefactors like Diegesis. Today’s announcement also strengthens Diegesis’ commitment to enabling organisations in the public and private sector to modernise and migrate their legacy systems to the latest technology frameworks without vendor lock-in, limits or licensing traps.
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