The Ultimate Guide to High Availability with MariaDB
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MariaDB 10.6.8 Release Notes

The most recent release of MariaDB 10.6 is:
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Release date: 20 May 2022

MariaDB 10.6 is the current long-term maintenance stable series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.5 with several entirely new features.

MariaDB 10.6.8 is a Stable (GA) release.

For an overview of MariaDB 10.6 see the What is MariaDB 10.6? page.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Note that MariaDB 10.6.8 is not yet available for Ubuntu 22.04 due to MDEV-28133. MariaDB 10.6.9 will be available.

Notable Items

InnoDB

Replication

Backup

  • Incorrect binlogs after Galera SST using rsync and mariabackup (MDEV-27524)
  • mariabackup does not detect multi-source replication slave (MDEV-21037)
  • Useless warning "InnoDB: Allocated tablespace ID <id> for <tablename>, old maximum was 0" during backup stage (MDEV-27343)
  • mariabackup prepare fails for incrementals if a new schema is created after full backup is taken (MDEV-28446) )

Optimizer

  • Query performance degradation in newer MariaDB versions when using many tables (MDEV-28073)
  • A SEGV in Item_field::used_tables/update_depend_map_for_order... (MDEV-26402)
  • ANALYZE FORMAT=JSON fields are incorrect for UNION ALL queries (MDEV-27699)
  • Subquery in an UPDATE query uses full scan instead of range (MDEV-22377)
  • Assertion `item1->type() == Item::FIELD_ITEM ... (MDEV-19398)
  • Server crashes in Expression_cache_tracker::fetch_current_stats (MDEV-28268)
  • MariaDB server crash at Item_subselect::init_expr_cache_tracker (MDEV-26164, MDEV-26047)
  • Crash with union of my_decimal type in ORDER BY clause (MDEV-25994)
  • SIGSEGV in st_join_table::cleanup (MDEV-24560)
  • Assertion `!eliminated' failed in Item_subselect::exec (MDEV-28437)

General

  • Server error messages are now available in Chinese (MDEV-28227)
  • For RHEL/CentOS 7, non x86_64 architectures are no longer supported upstream and so our support will also be dropped with this release
  • Packages for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy" and Fedora 36 are not yet available pending the resolution of MDEV-28133: Backport OpenSSL-3.0 compatibility to 10.6 branch
  • As per the MariaDB Deprecation Policy, this will be the last release of MariaDB 10.6 for Debian 9 "Stretch", Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish", and Fedora 34

Security

Changelog

For a complete list of changes and bugfixes made in MariaDB 10.6.8, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.

Contributors

For a full list of contributors to MariaDB 10.6.8, see the MariaDB Foundation release announcement.

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