Changes and Improvements in MariaDB 11.8
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MariaDB 11.8 is currently in development.
New Features
Vectors
- New function VEC_DISTANCE for calculating either a Euclidean or Cosine distance between two vectors, depending on the underlying index type (MDEV-35450)
Optimizer
- Expanded Optimizer hints (MDEV-35504)
- Optimizer can now take advantage of queries of the format SUBSTR(col, 1, n) = const_str (MDEV-34911)
- Add basic optimizer support for virtual columns (MDEV-35616)
InnoDB
- Fix innodb-adaptive-hash-index scalability with multiple threads (MDEV-35049)
Importing
- The mariadb-dump
--no-autocommitoption is now set by default to allow faster data loading by InnoDB, writing only one undo log for the whole operation (MDEV-32250)
GIS
New GIS functions. These functions improve compatibility with MySQL 8.
- ST_Validate (MDEV-34137)
- MBRCoveredBy (MDEV-34138)
- ST_Simplify (MDEV-34141)
- ST_GeoHash (MDEV-34158)
- ST_LatFromGeoHash (MDEV-34159)
- ST_LongFromGeoHash (MDEV-34160)
- ST_PointFromGeoHash (MDEV-34277)
- ST_IsValid (MDEV-34276)
- ST_Collect (MDEV-34278)
Functions
- New FORMAT_BYTES function. Given a byte count, returns a string consisting of a value and the units in a human-readable format (MDEV-31736)
Referential Integrity
- CHECK TABLE ... EXTENDED now also checks for referential integrity (MDEV-34309)
Information Schema
- When querying the information Schema, stored functions that have the same name as a native function no longer generate a warning (MDEV-35437)
List of All MariaDB 11.8 Releases
| Date | Release | Status | Release Notes | Changelog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Dec 2024 | MariaDB 11.8.0 | Alpha | Release Notes |
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