The Ultimate Guide to High Availability with MariaDB
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MariaDB 11.8.0 Release Notes

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Release date: 18 Dec 2024

Do not use alpha releases in production!

MariaDB 11.8.0 is a single preview release. Features are to be considered preview, and none are guaranteed to make it into MariaDB 11.8.

For an overview of MariaDB 11.8 see the What is MariaDB 11.8? page.

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Notable Items

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

InnoDB

Importing

  • The mariadb-dump --no-autocommit option 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.

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

Information Schema

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