Hi MariaDB packagers! MariaDB 11.8.2 is finally here and thus a long-term supported version for next 5 years! If you have not already, check out https://mariadb.org/11-8-lts-released/ Looking at https://repology.org/project/mariadb/versions I see that a handful of distros already have the new MariaDB 11.8 LTS released for general availability last week. Congrats to Chrisian Hesse for being the fastest (non-automated) human importer and landing 11.8.2 in Arch Linux on June 4th! I uploaded MariaDB 11.8.2 to Debian yesterday. In Debian the amount of additional metadata is rather extensive and building MariaDB on 16 different CPU architectures is also a lot. If you only now started working on 11.8, and you run into any build or test issues, you might want to check out the Debian packaging and patches as all those generic issues have been fixed in Debian: https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server Debian may also have a bunch of other packaging files that may be useful for others too. For example https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/blob/debian/latest/de... lists every single system variable that has been added, removed, deprecated or had the default value changed. You can see this information also for every single minor release imported to Debian by looking at the git history of the directory https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/tree/debian/latest/de.... Additionally the file https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/blob/debian/latest/de... summarizes how users and permissions are best managed. - Otto