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MariaDB 5.5.22 release candidate now available
by MariaDB Announce List 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.22 release candidate (RC). MariaDB 5.5.22 is the first RC release in the 5.5 series. We hope to follow it up soon with a stable (GA) 5.5 release. Please test this release thoroughly! This is the third 5.5-based release. The MariaDB 5.5 series is the combination of MariaDB 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 with a few extra features and bug fixes. Please read the "What is MariaDB 5.5" page for an overview: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-55 - - MariaDB 5.5.22 RC Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads - - - - - - - The release notes for MariaDB 5.5.22 RC are available at: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5522-release-notes A changelog for this release is available at: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5522-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.5.22/ Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from our mirrored apt repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ - - About MariaDB 5.5 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The MariaDB 5.5 series is the combination of MariaDB 5.3 and MySQL 5.5. Please read the "What is MariaDB 5.5" page for details: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-55 - - SkySQL and MariaDB: Solutions Day - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - We'll be co-hosting the the "SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL® Database" one day event on 13 April, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. During this event, attendees will receive free, hands-on training and consulting on MariaDB and MySQL® database solutions from the experts at SkySQL, MariaDB, Continuent, ScaleDB, Severalnines, Sphinx, and Webyog, among others. SkySQL and MariaDB will bring together industry visionaries, including Michael (Monty) Widenius and David Axmark, the original authors of the MySQL database, to share their insights on current and future trends pertaining to the world's most popular open source database. To learn more about this free event, visit http://www.skysql.com/events/mysql-solutions-day The schedule for the event is here: http://www.skysql.com/events/mysql-solutions-day/schedule Attendees are also invited to participate in Drizzle Day – a parallel event co-hosted by SkySQL, Percona, and the Drizzle Development Team, featuring tutorials on the Drizzle database. - - User Feedback plugin - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MariaDB includes a User Feedback plugin. This plugin is disabled by default. If enabled, it submits basic, completely anonymous MariaDB usage information. This information is used by the developers to track trends in MariaDB usage to better guide development efforts. If you would like to help make MariaDB better, please add --plugin-load=feedback.so to your my.cnf file! On Windows, add "feedback=ON" to your my.ini file, or click the checkbox during the installation of the MSI package. See http://kb.askmonty.org/en/user-feedback-plugin for more information. - - Quality - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The project always strives for quality, but in reality, nothing is perfect. Please take time to report any issues you encounter at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria - - Where else to find us - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - We're on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MariaDB.dbms We're on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/mariadb We're on Google Plus: http://gplus.to/mariadb We hope you enjoy MariaDB! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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Speaker update! SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database
by MariaDB Announce List 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

We're excited to announce new additions to the list of expert speakers at the upcoming SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database (http://www.skysql.com/mysql-solutions-day) on April 13. Building on the already announced keynote from Michael (Monty) Widenius and David Axmark (http://www.skysql.com/events/mysql-solutions-day/schedule) and speakers from SkySQL, Monty Program, Webyog, Continuent, ScaleDB, Severalnines, Calpont InfiniDB and Sphinx Search, attendees will also gain valuable insight from Constant Contact, Sheeri C. Cabral, and MySQL expert Yoshinori Matsunobu. For the latest details on speakers and their presentations, check our event schedule and featured speakers pages. We’re still finalizing details on the closing afternoon keynote, so stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks. As a reminder, the SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database was created specifically for MySQL Database Administrators, Application Developers building solutions on MySQL, Development/Engineering Management and IT Architects. All keynotes, intensive tutorials, and lunch – are absolutely free to attendees. Register Now!: http://www.skysql.com/mysql-solutions-day -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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MariaDB 5.5.21 beta now available
by MariaDB Announce List 17 Mar '12

17 Mar '12

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.21 beta. MariaDB 5.5.21 is the first beta release in the 5.5 series. We hope to follow it up soon with a 5.5 release candidate. Please test this release thoroughly! MariaDB 5.5.21 beta is a merge of MariaDB 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 with some limited additional bug fixes. This is the second 5.5-based release, and we have some extra notable features including an improved thread pool, an updated SphinxSE storage engine for fulltext search, and the ability to selectively skip replication of binlog events. Extra features planned for MariaDB 5.5 will be pushed into subsequent releases. **Do not use beta releases on production systems.** == MariaDB 5.5.21 beta Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads =========== The release notes for MariaDB 5.5.21 beta are available at: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5521-release-notes A changelog for this release is available at: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5521-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.5.21/ Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from our mirrored apt repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ == About MariaDB 5.5 ================================================== The MariaDB 5.5 series is the combination of MariaDB 5.3 and MySQL 5.5. Please read the "What is MariaDB 5.5" page for details: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-55 == SkySQL and MariaDB: Solutions Day ================================== We'll be co-hosting the the "SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL® Database" one day event on 13 April, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. During this event, attendees will receive free, hands-on training and consulting on MariaDB and MySQL® database solutions from the experts at SkySQL, MariaDB, Continuent, ScaleDB, Severalnines, Sphinx, and Webyog, among others. SkySQL and MariaDB will bring together industry visionaries, including Michael (Monty) Widenius and David Axmark, the original authors of the MySQL database, to share their insights on current and future trends pertaining to the world's most popular open source database. To learn more about this free event, visit http://www.skysql.com/events/mysql-solutions-day The schedule for the event is here: http://www.skysql.com/events/mysql-solutions-day/schedule Attendees are also invited to participate in Drizzle Day – a parallel event co-hosted by SkySQL, Percona, and the Drizzle Development Team, featuring tutorials on the Drizzle database. == User Feedback plugin =============================================== MariaDB includes a User Feedback plugin. This plugin is disabled by default. If enabled, it submits basic, completely anonymous MariaDB usage information. This information is used by the developers to track trends in MariaDB usage to better guide development efforts. If you would like to help make MariaDB better, please add --plugin-load=feedback.so to your my.cnf file! On Windows, add "feedback=ON" to your my.ini file, or click the checkbox during the installation of the MSI package. See http://kb.askmonty.org/en/user-feedback-plugin for more information. == Quality ============================================================ The project always strives for quality, but in reality, nothing is perfect. Please take time to report any issues you encounter at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria == Where else to find us ============================================== We're on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MariaDB.dbms We're on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/mariadb We're on Google Plus: http://gplus.to/mariadb We hope you enjoy MariaDB! -- Colin Charles, http://bytebot.net/blog/ | twitter: @bytebot | skype: colincharles MariaDB: Community developed. Feature enhanced. Backward compatible. Download it at: http://www.mariadb.org/ Open MariaDB/MySQL documentation at the Knowledgebase: http://kb.askmonty.org/

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MariaDB 5.3.5 now available!
by MariaDB Announce List 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.3.5! MariaDB 5.3.5 is the first stable (GA) release in the 5.3 series. --- MariaDB 5.3.5 Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads ----------------- The release notes are available at: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-535-release-notes A changelog is available at: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-535-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.3.5/ Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from our mirrored apt repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ --- About MariaDB 5.3 ------------------------------------------------- The MariaDB 5.3 series introduces many new features, includes MariaDB 5.2, and is based on MariaDB 5.1 & MySQL 5.1. Some highlights of new features in MariaDB 5.3 include: - subquery optimizations that finally make subqueries usable - many optimizer changes, including Classic Hash Join, Batched Key Access, a new implementation of Multi-Range-Read optimizations as well as Index Condition Pushdown - NoSQL-style interfaces via the HandlerSocket plugin as well as dynamic columns - group commit in XtraDB when the binary log is enabled - Microsoft Windows performance improvements These are just some of the highlights, and for a more complete list of changes, please read the What is MariaDB 5.3 page: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-53 --- SkySQL and MariaDB: Solutions Day --------------------------------- We'll be co-hosting the the "SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL® Database" one day event on 13 April, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. During this event, attendees will receive free, hands-on training and consulting on MariaDB and MySQL® database solutions from the experts at SkySQL, MariaDB, Continuent, ScaleDB, Severalnines, Sphinx, and Webyog, among others. SkySQL and MariaDB will bring together industry visionaries, including Michael (Monty) Widenius and David Axmark, the original authors of the MySQL database, to share their insights on current and future trends pertaining to the world's most popular open source database. To learn more about this free event, visit http://www.skysql.com/events/mysql-solutions-day The schedule for the event is here: http://www.skysql.com/events/mysql-solutions-day/schedule Attendees are also invited to participate in Drizzle Day– a parallel event co-hosted by SkySQL, Percona, and the Drizzle Development Team, featuring tutorials on the Drizzle database. --- User Feedback plugin ---------------------------------------------- MariaDB includes a User Feedback plugin. This plugin is disabled by default. If enabled, it submits basic, completely anonymous MariaDB usage information. This information is used by the developers to track trends in MariaDB usage to better guide development efforts. If you would like to help make MariaDB better, please add --plugin-load=feedback.so to your my.cnf file! On Windows, add "feedback=ON" to your my.ini file, or click the checkbox during the installation of the MSI package. See http://kb.askmonty.org/en/user-feedback-plugin for more information. --- MariaDB Crash Course book ----------------------------------------- We would also like to mention the book "MariaDB Crash Course", by Ben Forta. This book - for beginner to intermediate level users - will get you up and running with MariaDB, even if you've never used a database before. More information is available at: http://forta.com/books/0321799941/ --- Quality ----------------------------------------------------------- The project always strives for quality, but in reality, nothing is perfect. Please take time to report any issues you encounter at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria We hope you enjoy MariaDB! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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MariaDB 5.5.20-alpha now available
by MariaDB Announce List 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.20-alpha. MariaDB 5.5.20 is the first Alpha release in the 5.5 series. We hope to follow it up soon with a beta 5.5 release. MariaDB 5.5.20-alpha is a merge of MariaDB 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 with some limited additional bug fixes. This is the first 5.5-based release, and we are releasing it now, intentionally without any extra features, and with it missing some planned features, to get it into the hands of any who might want to test it. Extra features planned for MariaDB 5.5 will be pushed into subsequent releases. **Do not use alpha releases on production systems.** == MariaDB 5.5.20-alpha Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads =========== The release notes for MariaDB 5.5.20-alpha are available at: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5520-release-notes A changelog for this release is available at: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5520-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.5.20/ Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from our mirrored apt repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ == About MariaDB 5.5 ================================================== The MariaDB 5.5 series is the combination of MariaDB 5.3 and MySQL 5.5. Please read the "What is MariaDB 5.5" page for details: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-55 == SkySQL and MariaDB: Solutions Day ================================== We'll be co-hosting the the "SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL® Database" one day event on 13 April, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. During this event, attendees will receive free, hands-on training and consulting on MariaDB and MySQL® database solutions from the experts at SkySQL, MariaDB, Continuent, ScaleDB, Severalnines, Sphinx, and Webyog, among others. SkySQL and MariaDB will bring together industry visionaries, including Michael (Monty) Widenius and David Axmark, the original authors of the MySQL database, to share their insights on current and future trends pertaining to the world's most popular open source database. To learn more about this free event, visit http://www.skysql.com/events/mysql-solutions-day The schedule for the event is here: http://www.skysql.com/events/mysql-solutions-day/schedule Attendees are also invited to participate in Drizzle Day– a parallel event co-hosted by SkySQL, Percona, and the Drizzle Development Team, featuring tutorials on the Drizzle database. == User Feedback plugin =============================================== MariaDB includes a User Feedback plugin. This plugin is disabled by default. If enabled, it submits basic, completely anonymous MariaDB usage information. This information is used by the developers to track trends in MariaDB usage to better guide development efforts. If you would like to help make MariaDB better, please add --plugin-load=feedback.so to your my.cnf file! On Windows, add "feedback=ON" to your my.ini file, or click the checkbox during the installation of the MSI package. See http://kb.askmonty.org/en/user-feedback-plugin for more information. == MariaDB Crash Course book ========================================== We would also like to mention the book "MariaDB Crash Course", by Ben Forta. This book - for beginner to intermediate level users - will get you up and running with MariaDB, even if you've never used a database before. More information is available at: http://forta.com/books/0321799941/ == Quality ============================================================ The project always strives for quality, but in reality, nothing is perfect. Please take time to report any issues you encounter at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria We hope you enjoy MariaDB! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL® Database
by MariaDB Announce List 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

We'll be co-hosting the the "SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL® Database" one day event on 13 April, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. During this event, attendees will receive free, hands-on training and consulting on MariaDB and MySQL® database solutions from the experts at SkySQL, MariaDB, Continuent, ScaleDB, Severalnines, Sphinx, and Webyog, among others. SkySQL and MariaDB will bring together industry visionaries, including Michael (Monty) Widenius and David Axmark, the original authors of the MySQL database, to share their insights on current and future trends pertaining to the world's most popular open source database. To learn more about this free event, visit http://www.skysql.com/events/mysql-solutions-day The schedule for the event is here: http://www.skysql.com/events/mysql-solutions-day/schedule Attendees are also invited to participate in Drizzle Day– a parallel event co-hosted by SkySQL, Percona, and the Drizzle Development Team, featuring tutorials on the Drizzle database.

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MariaDB 5.3.4-rc now available
by MariaDB Announce List 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

The MariaDB project would like to announce the availability of MariaDB 5.3.4-rc, the latest addition to our growing lineup of supported software. MariaDB 5.3.4-rc is the second Release Candidate release in the 5.3 series. We hope to follow it up soon with a stable (GA) 5.3 release. == MariaDB 5.3.4-rc Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads =============== The release notes for MariaDB 5.3.4-rc are available from: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-534-release-notes A complete changelog for this beta is available from: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-534-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.3.4/ Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from our mirrored apt repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ == About MariaDB 5.3 ================================================== The MariaDB 5.3 series introduces many new features, includes MariaDB 5.2, and is based on MariaDB 5.1 & MySQL 5.1. Some highlights of new features in MariaDB 5.3 include: - subquery optimizations that finally make subqueries usable - many optimizer changes, including Classic Hash Join, Batched Key Access, a new implementation of Multi-Range-Read optimizations as well as Index Condition Pushdown - NoSQL-style interfaces via the HandlerSocket plugin as well as dynamic columns - group commit in XtraDB when the binary log is enabled - Microsoft Windows performance improvements These are just some of the highlights, and for a more complete list of changes, please read the What is MariaDB 5.3 page: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-53 == User Feedback plugin =============================================== MariaDB 5.3 includes a User Feedback plugin. This plugin is disabled by default. If enabled, it submits basic, completely anonymous MariaDB usage information. This information is used by the developers to track trends in MariaDB usage to better guide development efforts. If you would like to help make MariaDB better, please add --plugin-load=feedback.so to your my.cnf file! On Windows, add "feedback=ON" to your my.ini file, or click the checkbox during the installation of the MSI package. See http://kb.askmonty.org/en/user-feedback-plugin for more information. == MariaDB Crash Course book ========================================== We would also like to mention the book "MariaDB Crash Course", by Ben Forta. This book -- for beginner to intermediate level users -- will get you up and running with MariaDB, even if you've never used a database before. More information is available at: http://forta.com/books/0321799941/ == Quality ============================================================ The project always strives for quality, but in reality, nothing is perfect. Please take time to report any issues you encounter at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria We hope you enjoy MariaDB 5.3.4-rc! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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MariaDB 5.3.3-rc now available
by MariaDB Announce List 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

The MariaDB project would like to announce the availability of MariaDB 5.3.3-rc, the latest addition to our growing lineup of supported software. MariaDB 5.3.3-rc is the first Release Candidate release in the 5.3 series. We hope to follow it up soon with a stable (GA) 5.3 release. == MariaDB 5.3.3-rc Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads =============== The release notes for MariaDB 5.3.3-rc are available from: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-533-release-notes A complete changelog for this beta is available from: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-533-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.3.3/ Debian and Ubuntu packages (now including Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric") are available from our mirrored apt repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ == About MariaDB 5.3.3-rc ============================================= In the MariaDB 5.3.3-rc there are a couple of changes compared to previous 5.3 releases: === Performance: Several optimizer features introduced in MariaDB 5.3 have been thoroughly tested, and switched on by default in 5.3.3. These include: * Subquery materialization (materialization=on) http://kb.askmonty.org/en/non-semi-join-subquery-optimizations * Semi-join optimizations (semijoin=on,firstmatch=on,loosescan=on) http://kb.askmonty.org/en/semi-join-subquery-optimizations * Derived table optimization (derived_merge=on,derived_with_keys=on) (Documentation is being worked on) * Index Condition Pushdown (index_condition_pushdown=on) http://kb.askmonty.org/en/index-condition-pushdown * Nested loop join will use its Block-based variant more aggressively http://kb.askmonty.org/en/block-based-join-algorithms * Block-based join for OUTER JOINs (outer_join_with_cache=on) * Block-based join for semi-joins (semijoin_with_cache=on) * Linked join buffers (more aggressive buffering of multi-way joins) (@@join_cache_level==2) Also, DISTINCT and GROUP BY clauses are now removed from subqueries when possible. This allows for more efficient query plans. (backported from MySQL 5.6) === Usability: EXPLAIN output has been improved in MariaDB 5.3.3 to be easier to understand: * The select_type column now shows MATERIALIZED for subqueries that are executed with Materialization (it used to show SUBQUERY, which made it hard to distinguish materialized subqueries from other kinds subqueries). * For a Duplicate Elimination strategy, Start temporary is now shown at the first table from the subquery. See also: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/explain === GIS Operations: GIS precise operations were added in MariaDB 5.3.3 (Documentation for this is still being worked on). == About MariaDB 5.3 ================================================== The MariaDB 5.3 series introduces many new features, includes MariaDB 5.2, and is based on MariaDB 5.1 & MySQL 5.1. Some highlights of new features in MariaDB 5.3 include: - subquery optimizations that finally make subqueries usable - many optimizer changes, including Classic Hash Join, Batched Key Access, a new implementation of Multi-Range-Read optimizations as well as Index Condition Pushdown - NoSQL-style interfaces via the HandlerSocket plugin as well as dynamic columns - group commit in XtraDB when the binary log is enabled - Microsoft Windows performance improvements These are just some of the highlights, and for a more complete list of changes, please read the What is MariaDB 5.3 page: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-53 == User Feedback plugin =============================================== MariaDB 5.3 includes a User Feedback plugin. This plugin is disabled by default. If enabled, it submits anonymous basic MariaDB usage information. This information will be used by the developers to track trends in MariaDB usage to better guide development efforts. If you would like to help make MariaDB better, please add --plugin-load=feedback.so to your my.cnf file! On Windows, add "feedback=ON" to your my.ini file, or click the checkbox during the installation of the MSI package. See http://kb.askmonty.org/en/user-feedback-plugin for more information. == MariaDB Crash Course book ========================================== We would also like to mention the book "MariaDB Crash Course", by Ben Forta. This book -- for beginner to intermediate level users -- will get you up and running with MariaDB, even if you've never used a database before. More information is available at: http://forta.com/books/0321799941/ == Quality ============================================================ The project always strives for quality, but in reality, nothing is perfect. Please take some time to report any issues you encounter at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria We hope you enjoy MariaDB 5.3.3-rc! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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MariaDB 5.2.10 and 5.1.60 Released
by MariaDB Announce List 06 Dec '11

06 Dec '11

This email is longer than usual, but that is because we are announcing today the availability of both MariaDB 5.2.10 and 5.1.60, the latest additions to our growing lineup of supported software. MariaDB 5.2.10 and 5.1.60 are primarily bug-fix updates to the previous 5.2.9 and 5.1.55 releases, respectively. == About MariaDB 5.2 MariaDB 5.2 contains features that didn't have time to go into MariaDB 5.1. For all practical purposes it's a drop in replacement for MariaDB 5.1 (and thus MySQL 5.1). The new features in 5.2 are quite isolated and as most have been in use by members in the MySQL community for a long time. Current versions of MariaDB 5.2 are stable. This is equivalent to a MySQL GA release. For a list of the various changes in the MariaDB 5.2 series, please see: * http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-52 === PAM authentication plugin in MariaDB 5.2.10 One change in MariaDB 5.2.10 which we want to make you aware of is the inclusion of a new open source PAM authentication plugin. See http://kb.askmonty.org/en/pam-authentication-plugin for more information. === Windows Binaries delayed Due to some issues with our Windows build server, the Windows binaries for 5.2.10 have been delayed. They should be released soon. === MariaDB 5.2.10 Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads See the following pages for more information on MariaDB 5.2.10 and to download it: * http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5210-release-notes * http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5210-changelog * http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.2.10/ == About MariaDB 5.1 MariaDB 5.1 is a binary drop in replacement of MySQL 5.1, but with performance like MySQL 5.5 (thanks to XtraDB), fewer bugs, and more features. Thanks to the extended and improved mysql_upgrade program it's also easier to upgrade from MySQL 5.0 to MariaDB 5.1 than to MySQL 5.1. MariaDB 5.1 is based on MySQL 5.1. In particular, MariaDB 5.1.60 is based on MySQL 5.1.60, with many improvements. For a list of the various improvements in the MariaDB 5.1 series, please see: * http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-51 === MariaDB 5.1.60 Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads See the following pages for more information on MariaDB 5.1.60 and to download it: * http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5160-release-notes * http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5160-changelog * http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.1.60/ == Debian & Ubuntu Software Repositories Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from our mirrored apt repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ == MariaDB Crash Course book We would also like to mention the book "MariaDB Crash Course", by Ben Forta. This book -- for beginner to intermediate level users -- will get you up and running with MariaDB, even if you've never used a database before. More information is available at: http://forta.com/books/0321799941/ == Reporting issues The project always strives for quality, and we know that not everything may be perfect. Please take some time to report any issues you may encounter at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria Enjoy MariaDB 5.2.10 and 5.1.60! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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MariaDB in Athens, Greece -- 11-13 Nov 2011
by MariaDB Announce List 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Many of the key MariaDB developers will be meeting in Athens, Greece next week to discuss future MariaDB development plans. The meeting is being sponsored by Monty Program. Most of the sessions are open to the public, so if you live in the area, please consider joining us for one or more days! More details on the exact location (among other things) can be found on the Monty Program website here: http://montyprogram.com/developer-meetings/ Even if you can't attend, if there is something you would like to see discussed at the meeting, send an email to athens-2011(a)mariadb.org and we'll see if we can add it to the agenda. Also, notes and plans created during the various sessions will be posted to the AskMonty Knowledgebase. The Knowledgebase category created for the Athens developer meeting is: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-developer-meeting-athens (The category is empty now, but will start filling up once the various sessions get under way.) Thanks! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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