MariaDB 5.5.44 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.44/

This is a maintenance release, and no major changes, so there are only several noteworthy items (but one of those being a security fix and five potential crashing bug):

• 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 Bug: mysql_upgrade crashes the server with REPAIR VIEW ( …

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 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 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 ( …

MariaDB 5.5.40 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.40/

This is a maintenance release, and so there are not too many big changes of note, just a number of normal bug fixes. However, there are a few items worth mentioning:

• Includes all bugfixes and updates from MySQL 5.5.40 (MySQL 5.5.40 Overview and Highlights)
• XtraDB updated to the version from …

MariaDB 5.5.39 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.39/

This is a maintenance release, and so there are not too many big changes of note, just a number of normal bug fixes. However, there are a few items worth mentioning:

• Includes all bugfixes and updates from MySQL 5.5.39 (MySQL 5.5.39 Overview and Highlights)
• XtraDB updated to the version from …

MariaDB 5.5.38 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.38/

This is a maintenance release, and so there are not too many big changes of note, just a number of normal bug fixes. However, there are a few items worth mentioning:

• Includes all bugfixes and updates from 5.5.38

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MariaDB 5.5.38 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.38/

This is a maintenance release, and so there are not too many big changes of note, just a number of normal bug fixes. However, there are a few items worth mentioning:

• Includes all bugfixes and updates from MySQL 5.5.38
• XtraDB updated to the version from Percona Server 5.5.37-35.0
• TokuDB updated to version …

MariaDB 5.5.37 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.37/

This is a maintenance release, and so there are not too many big changes of note, just a number of normal bug fixes. However, there are a few items worth mentioning:

• Includes all bugfixes and updates from MySQL 5.5.37

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MariaDB 5.5.36 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.36/

This is a maintenance release, and so there are not too many big changes of note, just a number of normal bug fixes. However, there are a couple items worth mentioning:

1. Includes all bugfixes and updates from: MySQL 5.5.36
2. TokuDB is now included in RPM packages for CentOS 6 on x86-64

Note this release did not contain the bugfixes from XtraDB 5.5.36 yet. There is one bug fix in XtraDB 5.5.36 that is fairly serious, so if you are a *heavy* XtraDB+ user, I might wait for MariaDB 5.5.37 to be released, so you get this fix. I should note the bug was partially fixed in 5.5.35, and I did …