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MariaDB 10.1.3 Overview and Highlights

MariaDB 10.1.3 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.1.3/

This is the 1st beta, and 4th overall, release of MariaDB 10.1, so there are a lot of new changes, functionalities added, defaults changed, and many bugs fixed (I counted 420 – 117 in 10.1.2 & 637 in 10.1.1, fwiw).

Since it’s beta, I’ll only cover the major changes and additions, and omit covering general bug fixes (feel free to browse them all here).

To me, these are the highlights of the new features:

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MariaDB 10.1.2 Overview and Highlights

MariaDB 10.1.2 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.1.2/

This is the third alpha release of MariaDB 10.1, so there are still a lot of new changes, functionalities added, defaults changed, and many bugs fixed (I counted 117, which is *way* down from the 637 fixed in 10.1.1). Since it’s alpha, I’ll only cover the major changes and additions, and omit covering general bug fixes (feel free to browse them all here).

To me, these are the highlights of the new features:

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MySQL 5.7.5 Overview and Highlights

MySQL 5.7.5 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.7, and is the “m15″ or “Milestone 15″ release), and is available for download here and here.

As for the fixes/changes, there are quite a few (the official release was split into 3 separate emails), which is expected in such an early milestone release.

The main highlights for me were (though the enhancements, and potentially impactful changes, are definitely not limited to this list):

  • InnoDB: The innodb_buffer_pool_size parameter is now dynamic, allowing you to resize the buffer pool without restarting the server. The resizing operation, which involves moving pages to a new location in memory, is performed chunks. Chunk size is configurable using the new …
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