MariaDB 5.2.4 Release Notes
The most recent release in the MariaDB 5.2 series is: MariaDB 5.2.14
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Release date: 6 Dec 2010
This is a stable release. In general this means there are no known serious bugs and we believe the code is ready for general usage. For a high-level description of MariaDB 5.2 see the MariaDB 5.2 overview.
See the Changelog for a list of all changes included in this release.
Includes MariaDB 5.1.53
MariaDB 5.2.4 has all changes from MariaDB 5.1.53, including MySQL 5.1.53.
In most respects MariaDB will work exactly as MySQL: all commands, interfaces, libraries and APIs that exist in MySQL also exist in MariaDB.
Includes XtraDB 5.1.52-11.6
We have included XtraDB from Percona-server-5.1.52-11.6 in this version of MariaDB.
New Packages
For this version of MariaDB we have started building Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" and Debian 6 "Squeeze" packages.
Bug Fixes
Like previous releases, MariaDB 5.2.4 includes several bug fixes and other improvements. Specific bugs fixed in MariaDB 5.2.4 include:
- Bug #643463 slow shutdown of XtraDB
- A fix from MySQL 5.1.52 for a serious regression: Bug #678047 and MySQL Bug #56821 Windows service cannot start
- Various fixes for .deb packaging:
- Bug #675185 mysqld_safe hangs spinning at 100% CPU
- Bug #509535 .debs should link with system libraries, not bundled
- Bug #674812 PHP compile failure
- Bug #616307 Upgrade failure on Debian 6 "Squeeze"
- and others...