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MariaDB 5.3.2-beta now available
by MariaDB Announce List 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

The MariaDB project would like to announce the availability of MariaDB 5.3.2-beta, the latest addition to our growing lineup of supported software. MariaDB 5.3.2-beta is a bug-fix update to the previous 5.3.1 and 5.3.0 betas. == About MariaDB 5.3 The MariaDB 5.3 series introduces many new features, includes MariaDB 5.2, and is based on 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 == About MariaDB 5.3.2-beta In the MariaDB 5.3.2-beta there are a couple of changes compared to previous 5.3 releases: === User Feedback plugin MariaDB 5.3.2-beta introduces the 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 installation of the MSI package. See http://kb.askmonty.org/en/user-feedback-plugin for more information. === Subquery Cache now on by default Starting in MariaDB 5.3.2-beta, the Subquery cache is on by default. In previous versions of MariaDB the cache was off by default. The goal of the subquery cache is to optimize the evaluation of correlated subqueries by storing results together with correlation parameters in a cache and avoiding re-execution of the subquery in cases where the result is already in the cache. See http://kb.askmonty.org/en/subquery-cache for more information. == MariaDB 5.3.2-beta Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads The release notes for MariaDB 5.3.2-beta are available from: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-532-release-notes A complete changelog for this beta is available from: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-532-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.3.2/ 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/ The project always strives for quality, and being a beta release, 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 5.3.2-beta & Happy Testing! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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MariaDB 5.2.9 released
by MariaDB Announce List 26 Sep '11

26 Sep '11

The MariaDB project would like to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.2.9, the latest iteration of the 5.2 series. The release notes are available from: * http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-529-release-notes A complete changelog is available from: * http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-529-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: * http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.2.9/ Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: * http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ MariaDB code hosting is on Launchpad: * https://launchpad.net/maria The project always strives for quality, but in reality nothing is perfect. Please take time to report any issues you encounter. * https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria We would also like to mention the release of the first MariaDB-specific 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/ Feel free to join the maria-discuss and/or maria-developers groups on Launchpad, or use #maria on Freenode IRC. And please, enjoy 5.2.9! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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MariaDB 5.3.1-beta now available!
by MariaDB Announce List 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

The MariaDB project would like to announce the availability of MariaDB 5.3.1-beta, the latest addition to our growing lineup of supported software. MariaDB 5.3.1-beta is a bug-fix update to the previous 5.3.0-beta. The MariaDB 5.3 series introduces many new features, includes MariaDB 5.2, and is based on 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 full list of changes, please read the What is MariaDB 5.3 page: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-53 A complete changelog for this beta is available from: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-531-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.3.1/ Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ The project always strives for quality, and being a beta release, we know that not everything can be perfect. Please take some time to report any issues you may encounter at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria Enjoy MariaDB 5.3.1-beta & Happy Testing! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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MariaDB 5.2.8 released
by MariaDB Announce List 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

The MariaDB project would like to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.2.8, the latest iteration of the existing 5.2 series release. The release notes are available from: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-528-release-notes A complete changelog is available from: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-528-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.2.8/ Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ MariaDB code hosting is on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/maria The project always strives for quality, but in reality nothing is perfect. Please take time to report any issues you encounter. https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria Feel free to join the maria-discuss and/or maria-developers groups on Launchpad, or use #maria on Freenode IRC. And please, enjoy 5.2.8! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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MariaDB 5.3.0 Beta available now!
by MariaDB Announce List 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

The MariaDB project would like to announce the availability of MariaDB 5.3.0 Beta, the latest addition to our growing lineup of supported software. MariaDB 5.3.0 beta includes all features in MariaDB 5.2 and is based on MySQL 5.1. Some highlights of new features 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 full list of changes, please read the What is MariaDB 5.3 page: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-53 A complete changelog is available from: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-530-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.3/ Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ The project always strives for quality, and being a beta release, we know that not everything can be perfect. Please take some time to report any issues you may encounter at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria Enjoy MariaDB 5.3.0 Beta & Happy Testing! -- 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 5.2.7 released
by MariaDB Announce List 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

The MariaDB project would like to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.2.7, the latest iteration of the existing 5.2 series release. Significant new features include: - RHEL5 .rpm for x86 (with continued CentOS packaging) - HeidiSQL GUI client for Windows (with thanks to Ansgar Becker) - Faster internal temporary tables A complete changelog is available from: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-527-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.2/ Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ MariaDB code hosting is on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/maria The project always strives for quality, but in reality nothing is perfect. Please take time to report any issues you encounter. https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria Feel free to join the maria-discuss and/or maria-developers groups on Launchpad, or use #maria on Freenode IRC. And please, enjoy 5.2.7! -- ./k Kurt von Finck Chief Community And Communications Officer Monty Program http://montyprogram.com

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MariaDB 5.2.6 released
by MariaDB Announce List 12 May '11

12 May '11

The MariaDB project has released version 5.2.6 of MariaDB, the latest release in the 5.2 series. Source, binaries, Linux packages and Windows installers are available at: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.2.6/ Debian packages are available in our repositories: http://kb.askmonty.org/v/installing-mariadb-deb-files MariaDB 5.2.6 brings many new features, among them: - Windows x86-64 packages - New MSI installer for Windows - Windows Upgrade Wizard for conversion of existing MySQL installations to MariaDB - Debian packages updated for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) The Release Notes and Changelog for MariaDB 5.2.6 have far more detail, and are available at: http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-526-release-notes http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-526-changelog As the 5.2 series is released as stable, updates to it are expected to be GA quality. But, as always, be sure to report any issues you encounter to the bugtracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria/+filebug Thanks to the community of MariaDB developers and users for making another release possible! Enjoy MariaDB 5.2.6! -- ./k Kurt von Finck Chief Community And Communications Officer Monty Program http://montyprogram.com

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MariaDB 5.1.55 released and a short newsletter
by MariaDB Announce List 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Highlights: * Release of MariaDB 5.1.55 * Meeting in Lisbon * Call for volunteers for booth duty Events: * DrupalCon Chicago * Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MariaDB 5.1.55 Released Dear MariaDB users, The development team have been busy and are ready to release MariaDB 5.1.55. MariaDB is a branch of the MySQL database which includes all major open source storage engines, myriad bug fixes and many community patches. This release of MariaDB 5.1.55 includes MySQL up to version 5.1.55. It also includes XtraDB up to version 5.1.54-12.5. As a highlight, we now have installable Debian and Ubuntu repositories available, so MariaDB is now just an apt-get away. For more information, do not hesitate to read the release notes (http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-5155-release-notes) and for more detailed changes, do hop on over to the changelog (http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-5155-changelog) MariaDB is available in source and binary form in a variety of platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, CentOS 5, and Solaris x86. These are all available from the downloads page (http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/) which has also been redesigned - check it out! Enjoy! Meeting in Lisbon Monty Program is organising a MariaDB Developer Meeting from Friday 11 March - Monday 14 March 2011 in Lisbon, Portugal. It will be held at the Holiday Inn Lisbon, and all developers and interested parties are encouraged to attend the meeting. If you would like to attend, please send an email to community(a)montyprogram.com and to find out more information about the meeting, please see: http://montyprogram.com/developer-meetings/ Call for volunteers for booth duty Volunteers are needed for booth duty at the O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011. The conference happens April 11-14 2011 in Santa Clara, California, and the Expo Hall is open April 12-13 2011. We need volunteers in the local area to help man the MariaDB booth. Please send email to community(a)montyprogram.com and find out more information about the conference at: http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2011 A future event where volunteers are needed to man the MariaDB booth is OSCON 2011, happening July 25-29, 2011 in Portland, Oregon. More information is available at: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Events DrupalCon Chicago Meet Kurt von Finck for a chat about MariaDB at DrupalCon Chicago (http://chicago2011.drupal.org/) happening March 7-10 2011. He will be equipped with many stickers and much interesting conversation. Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco Meet Colin Charles for a chat about MariaDB at the Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco (http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2011) happening March 28-31 2011. Stump him with your questions about MariaDB! He will also be present with stickers as giveaways. -- 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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Upcoming conferences and what's happening in development
by MariaDB Announce List 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

Hi! I have not been using this email list lately, but it's time to change that (but still keeping things at a very low volume). I will now start post the most important things that is happening in MariaDB community here so that people can easily follow what is going on. Upcoming conferences we are attending: Next Wednesday, February 16'th, I will give a talk at Garum day in Bilbao, Spain about MariaDB and open source entrepreneurship. I will arrive to Bilbao on mid day of February 15'th. If you want to meet with me during this time, feel free to drop me a line! See http://garumfundatio.org/dia-garum-europa-2011 for details. Other uppcoming conferences: SCaLE - February 25-27, 2011 - Los Angeles, CA http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/ DrupalCon - March 7-10, 2011 - Chicago, IL http://chicago2011.drupal.org/ MySQL Conference April 11-14, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA, USA. Monty Program has submitted talks. http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2011 LinuxCon Japan - June 1-3, 2011 - Yokohama, Japan Monty Program has submitted talks. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-japan We are also searching for volunteers for MariaDB boot duty / holding MariaDB talks at conferences. If you are interested, please contact us at community(a)askmonty.org. What's happening in development: - We are just now merging MySQL 5.1.55 with MariaDB 5.1 and plan to release MariaDB 5.1.55 and MariaDB 5.2.5 during the next few days. - We just merged in the newest FederatedX code, that has initial support for partition tables. This is merged into 5.1 as it also includes a critical bug fix that is needed into 5.1. (lp:585688) - We will soon release a new Windows installer for MariaDB; Most of the code is written, we just have do so dome final testing and code reviews on it before releasing it. - In MariaDB 5.3 Sergei is adding support for sub seconds (6 decimals). As soon as this work is ready we will do a new alpha release of 5.3. - 5.3 is close to a beta; We have a couple of optimization patches that needs to get in, support for dynamic columns, handler sockets and the new faster HANDLER support before we can call it beta. See http://kb.askmonty.org/v/what-is-mariadb-53 - Merge of MariaDB 5.3 + MySQL 5.5 -> MariaDB 5.5 is on the way. We should have a tree available within a couple of weeks. - It's still not clear which will be our next stable release ; MariaDB 5.3 or MariaDB 5.5. This will be decided after Sergei is done with the 5.5 merge and can give us a report of what he thinks about the stability of the 5.5 code. If you want to discuss any of the above, please do it on maria-discuss(a)list.launchpad.org. Regards, Monty

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MariaDB 5.1.53 and 5.2.4 released
by MariaDB Announce List 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

The MariaDB community is happy to announce two new releases hot off the compiler! MariaDB is a branch of the MySQL database which includes all major open source storage engines, myriad bug fixes, and many community patches. The MariaDB 5.1 release continues with MariaDB 5.1.53, while the 5.2 series moves to 5.2.4. As always, detailed release notes are available and are highly recommended, especially for those considering an upgrade. http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-5153-release-notes http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-524-release-notes These releases both address a couple of issues in both series that may affect a large number of users. First, a regression in MySQL relating to starting as a service on Windows has been patched. You will no longer need the --console option. https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria/+bug/678047 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=56821 Second, a rather nasty little bug prevented compiling PHP against MariaDB. This has been fixed in these new releases, as well. https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria/+bug/674812 Binary builds for many popular platforms, Linux packages, and source code can be found mirrored worldwide. http://askmonty.org/wiki/MariaDB:Download MariaDB: Community developed, feature enhanced, backward compatible. -- ./k Kurt von Finck Chief Community And Communications Officer Monty Program http://montyprogram.com

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