We’re excited to announce that both Percona Server for MySQL and Percona XtraBackup now support the ARM64 architecture on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8/9 and Oracle Linux (OL) 8/9. The packages with the aarch64.rpm extension can be found on Percona Software Downloads. The aarch64.rpm file extension indicates that the RPM package is specifically built for the ARM64 architecture and intended […]

As you are probably aware, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6 or EL 6 in short) officially reached “End of Life” (EOL) on 2020-11-30 and is now in the so-called Extended Life Phase, which basically means that Red Hat will no longer provide bug fixes or security fixes.

Even though EL 6 and its compatible derivatives like CentOS 6 had reached EOL some time ago already, we continued providing binary builds for selected MySQL-related products for this platform.

However, this became increasingly difficult, as the MySQL code base continued to evolve and now depends on tools and functionality that are no longer provided by the operating system out of the box. This meant we already had to perform several modifications in order to prepare binary builds for this platform, e.g. installing custom compiler versions or newer versions of various system …

Yesterday (17/Jul/2020) I’ve added a separate feed for MySQL topics. It can be accessed at the address https://saveriomiroddi.github.io/feed/mysql.xml (also represented by the dolphin icon in the navigation bar of the blog).

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.47, MariaDB Connector/C 2.2.2, and MariaDB Connector/J 1.3.3. See the release notes and changelogs for details on each release. Download MariaDB 5.5.47 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Download MariaDB Connector/C 2.2.2 Release Notes Changelog […]

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.9 and MariaDB Connector/J 1.3.2. See the release notes and changelogs for details on each release. Download MariaDB 10.1.9 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.3.2 Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/J […]

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.22 and updates to MariaDB Connector/J, MariaDB Connector/C, and MariaDB Connector/ODBC. See the release notes and changelogs for details on each release. Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.22 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration […]

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Download MariaDB 10.0.22 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.0? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.22. This is a Stable (GA) release. See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB 10.0? page […]

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With the release of 10.1.8, MariaDB takes a next step. MariaDB 10.1 is now considered a stable release.

MariaDB 10.1 has a couple of main themes:

• Security
• High Availability
• Scalability

During the last few years there have been many request for more security features in MariaDB. Actually it’s a trend in general. Since open source software is getting more attractive all the time, more functionality is wanted in areas where proprietary software typically has been leading. This is especially true for databases. In addition data privacy is a very hot topic.

The big new thing in security for MariaDB 10.1 is a complete data at rest encryption solution. The encryption that now is in use originates from Google’s encryption patch. It has now been migrated into MariaDB 10.1. The …

Download MariaDB 5.5.46

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.46. This is a Stable (GA) release.

See the Release …

Download MariaDB 10.1.7

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.7. This is a Release Candidate (RC) release.

See the …