My latest post is online on the Booking.com blog: Evaluating MySQL Parallel Replication Part 3: Benchmarks in Production.  In this post, I present benchmark results on MariaDB 10.0 parallel replication on four Booking.com production workloads.

This post is also the opportunity to promote my two talks at Percona Live Europe, taking place in Amsterdam from September 21 to 23:

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MariaDB 10.0.20 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.20/

This is the eleventh GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 21st overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

There were no major functionality changes, but there was one security fix, 6 crashing bugs fixed, some general upstream fixes, and quite a few bug fixes, so let me cover the highlights:

• Security Fix: Client command line option –ssl-verify-server-cert (and MYSQL_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT option of the client API) when used together with –ssl will ensure that the established connection is SSL-encrypted and the MariaDB server has a valid certificate. This fixes CVE-2015-3152.
• Crashing …

MariaDB 10.0.19 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.19/

This is the tenth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 20th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This was a quick release in order to get a fix for a mysql_upgrade bug (MDEV-8115) introduced in 10.0.18, so there is that, and only 9 other bug fixes.

Here are the main items of note:

• Fixed the server crash caused by mysql_upgrade (MDEV-8115)
• Connect upgraded to 1.03.0007

Due to the mysql_upgrade bug fix as well as all of the fixes in MariaDB …

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 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 …

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 10.0.14 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.14/

This is the fifth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 15th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This is primarily a bug-fix release. (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. TokuDB upgraded to 7.5.0
2. XtraDB upgraded to 5.6.20-68.0
3. InnoDB upgraded to 5.6.20
4. …

MariaDB 10.0.13 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.13/

This is the fourth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 14th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This is primarily a bug-fix release.

Here are the main items of note:

1. InnoDB upgraded to 5.6.19.
2. XtraDB upgraded to 5.6.19-67.0.
…

MariaDB 10.0.12 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.12/

This is the third GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 13th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This is primarily a bug-fix release.

Here are the main items of note:

1. Updated Spider storage engine to version 3.2.4.
2. Updated Connect engine.
3. Updated pcre to version 8.35.
4. Exists-to-In optimization is now enabled by default.
5. …