Hello Carsten!

You are right that MariaDB is not in the main archive, but in universe in Ubuntu. It is community maintained, and mostly by me. The current planned maintenance cycle for MariaDB 10.1 is not as long as what Ubuntu 18.04 has. Unfortunately we did not manage to release 10.3 as originally planned, and it missed the Ubuntu 18.04 window.

As Sergei wrote, on the page https://mariadb.org/about/maintenance-policy/ at the moment it says "17 Oct 2020" for 10.1.

That can be subject to change, but the MariaDB Foundation cannot promise anything, it all depends on community success and the usage of 10.1 in general.

If you are running MariaDB in a mission critical environment, please consider installing it from a source that provides you some commercial guarantees about support that matches your production requirements. See options at https://mariadb.org/about/service-providers/

2018-05-23 15:32 GMT+03:00 Mpingu metalpinguin@gmail.com:

Hello Everyone,

i found an unclear information in the MariaDB Documentation. I hope this is the right way to help getting it improved.

On the Download Site for Ubuntu 18.04 and MariaDB 10.1. Link https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/#version=10.1&distro=...

The Website says: Ubuntu includes MariaDB 10.1 in its main repositories, so for general use of MariaDB 10.1 we recommend using the Ubuntu provided MariaDB 10.1 packages for general use.

But in the Packages List of Ubuntu it is stated as universe, not Main. That means no official support from Ubuntu/Canonical.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/mariadb-server-10.1

For me the Question is what is the guaranteed support life time of MariaDB 10.1 in Ubuntu 18.04?

-- Carsten Bohuslav Metalpinguin@gmail.com

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