MariaDB 10.0.18 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.18/

This is the ninth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 19th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

There were no major functionality changes, but there were some general improvements, several security fixes, plus a 10.0.18 mysql_upgrade caution, and quite a few bug fixes, so let me cover what I feel are the main items of note:

• Security Fixes: Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2014-8964 / CVE-2015-2325 …

MariaDB 5.5.43 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.43/

This is a maintenance release, and so there were not too many major changes, but definitely a few worth mentioning, as well as one *important* caution:

• Security Fixes: Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2015-0501
  • CVE-2015-2571
  • …

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:

• Table and Tablespace Encryption.
• …

MariaDB 5.5.42 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.42/

This is a maintenance release, and so there were not too many changes at all and only 3 changes (enhancements) I felt noteworthy:

• The new version of the Audit Plugin is 1.2 is included with the following new features:
  • In the audit log passwords are now masked, i.e. the password characters are replaced with asterisks.
  • It’s now possible to filter logging to include only DDL (CREATE, ALTER, etc.) or DML (INSERT, UPDATE, etc.) statements.
  • For more information please refer to the About the MariaDB Audit Plugin page. The plugin is …

MariaDB 10.0.17 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.17/

This is the eighth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 18th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

For the most part, there are not a whole lot of new changes to report for this release, but there is a new version of the Audit Plugin and many other engines have been updated as well.

Here are the main items of note:

1. The new version of the Audit Plugin is 1.2 is included with the following new features:
   • In the audit log passwords are now masked, i.e. the password characters are replaced with asterisks.
   • It’s now possible to filter logging to include only DDL (CREATE, ALTER, etc.) or DML (INSERT, UPDATE, etc.) statements.
   • For more information …

MariaDB 10.0.16 was recently released (~1.5 months ago on 1/27/2015 – sorry for the delay on my end – I was just extra busy in my spare time recently), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.16/

This is the seventh GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 17th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

For the most part, there are not a whole lot of changes to report for this release, but there are 2 enhancements of note – one being the JSON table type (still *experimental*) and the other a new variable to aid with index statistics calculations on large tables, as well as some security fixes.

Here are the main items of note:

1. Updates to the CONNECT handler (supporting the …

Introduction

For the moment, the only engines that fully support encryption are XtraDB and InnoDB. The Aria storage engine also supports encryption, but only for temporary tables.

MariaDB supports 2 different way to encrypt data in InnoDB/XtraDB:

1. Specified table encryption: Only tables which you create with PAGE_ENCRYPTION=1 are encrypted. This feature was created by eperi.
2. Tablespace encryption: Everything is encrypted (including log files). This feature was created by Google and is based on their MySQL branch.

InnoDB Specified Table Encryption

Specified Table encryption means that you choose which tables to encrypt. This allows you to balance security with speed. To use table encryption, you have …

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:

• –mysql56-temporal-format option to use the MySQL-5.6 low level formats to store …

MariaDB 10.0.15 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.15/

This is the sixth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 16th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This release has an important InnoDB/XtraDB fix, a new addition, security enhancements (and improvement) – all related to yaSSL, so be sure to check out these fixes if you’re running MariaDB 10.0, and not up to 10.0.15 yet. (MariaDB 10.0 is the current stable series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of the MariaDB 5.5 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL 5.6.)

Here are the main items of note:

1. This release fixes a serious bug in InnoDB and XtraDB that sometimes could cause a hard lock up of the server ( …

MariaDB 5.5.41 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.41/

This is a maintenance release, and so there were not too many changes, *but* please take notice as there are 2 very important bug fixes:

• Bug Fixed: A fix to a serious bug in InnoDB and XtraDB that sometimes could cause a hard lock up of the server (Bug #MDEV-7026)
• Bug Fixed: A fix to unnecessary waits in InnoDB and XtraDB (Bug #MDEV-7100)
• Includes all bugfixes and updates from MySQL 5.5.41 ( …