MariaDB 10.2.7 Release Notes
The most recent release of MariaDB 10.2 is:
MariaDB 10.2.44 Stable (GA) Download Now
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Release date: 12 Jul 2017
MariaDB 10.2 is the current stable series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.1 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL 5.6 and 5.7.
MariaDB 10.2.7 is a Stable (GA) release.
For an overview of MariaDB 10.2 see the What is MariaDB 10.2? page.
Notable Changes
This is the second stable release in the MariaDB 10.2 series.
A file format compatibility bug that was introduced in MariaDB 10.2.2 was fixed in this version of MariaDB.
Creating tables with the attribute page_compressed=yes created InnoDB internal data dictionary records that are incompatible with MariaDB 10.1. MariaDB 10.2.7 and later will write the dictionary records in a format that is compatible with MariaDB 10.1 and will also support the malformed metadata from affected 10.2 versions.
This may prevent a downgrade to earlier MariaDB 10.2 versions.
- The JSON data type (an alias for LONGTEXT) was introduced.
- InnoDB updated to 5.7.18
- TokuDB updated to 5.6.36-82.0
- MariaDB Backup beta now included for Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora packages. See MDEV-13311 for an important note about restoring with this version.
- MDEV-13125: Core dumps can now be enabled dynamically
- MDEV-13132: Literals in the
COLUMN_DEFAULT
column in the Information Schema COLUMNS table are now quoted to distinguish them from expressions. - New variables:
- As per the MariaDB Deprecation Policy, this will be the last release of MariaDB 10.2 for Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety"
Notes
For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.2.7, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.
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