MariaDB 10.8.1 Release Notes
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Release date: 9 Feb 2022
This release is no longer available for download after a problem was noticed when manually running mariadb-upgrade. See MDEV-27789 for more details.
Please use a later release.
Do not use non-stable (non-GA) releases in production!
MariaDB 10.8 is the current development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.7 with several entirely new features.
MariaDB 10.8.1 is a Release Candidate (RC) release.
For an overview of MariaDB 10.8 see the What is MariaDB 10.8? page.
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
Notable Items
InnoDB
- --skip-symbolic-links does not disallow
.isl
file creation (MDEV-26870) - Indexed CHAR columns are broken with NO_PAD collations (MDEV-25440)
- insert-intention lock conflicts with waiting ORDINARY lock (MDEV-27025)
- Crash recovery improvements (MDEV-26784, MDEV-27022, MDEV-27183, MDEV-27610)
- mariabackup skips valid .ibd file (MDEV-26326)
- Allow seamless upgrade despite ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED (MDEV-27736)
- Change the InnoDB redo log format to reduce write amplification (MDEV-14425)
- Remove FIL_PAGE_FILE_FLUSH_LSN from the InnoDB redo log (MDEV-27199).
- Support descending indexes internally in InnoDB (MDEV-26938)
Optimizer
- Support descending indexes in the range optimizer (MDEV-26996)
Galera
- Galera updated to 26.4.11
- Galera SST scripts should use ssl_capath (not ssl_ca) for CA directory (MDEV-27181)
- Alter Sequence do not replicate to another nodes with in Galera Cluster (MDEV-19353)
- Galera crash - Assertion. Possible parallel writeset problem (MDEV-26803)
- CREATE TABLE with FOREIGN KEY constraint fails to apply in parallel (MDEV-27276)
- Galera cluster node consider old server_id value even after modification of server_id
[wsrep_gtid_mode=ON]
(MDEV-26223)
Replication
- Seconds behind master corrected from artificial spikes at relay-log rotation (MDEV-16091)
- Statement rollback in binlog when transaction creates or drop temporary table is set right (MDEV-26833)
- CREATE-or-REPLACE SEQUENCE is made to binlog with the DDL flag to stabilize its parallel execution on slave (MDEV-27365)
- ALTER is optionally made to binlog in two parts to decrease its replication latency (MDEV-11675)
- mysqlbinlog
--start-position
and--stop-position
accept gtid values to allow specifying the replication event range in terms of gtid (MDEV-4989)
Packaging & Misc
- prohibition running two upgrades in parallel (MDEV-27068, MDEV-27107, MDEV-27279)
- mariadb_repo_setup script updated to version 2022-02-08, with the following fixes and enhancements:
- Default location of the script has been moved to: https://r.mariadb.com/downloads/mariadb_repo_setup (old location is deprecated, but still works)
- The GPG keyring file, used with Debian and Ubuntu repositories, has moved to: https://supplychain.mariadb.com/mariadb-keyring-2019.gpg and the checksum for the file can be found at: https://supplychain.mariadb.com/mariadb-keyring-2019.gpg.sha256
- Support for RHEL and SLES aarch64 repositories added
- New function added to verify that the MariaDB Server version, if specified on the command line, follows the correct naming and that a corresponding repository actually exists.
- Fixed repository pinning for Ubuntu and Debian repositories
- MariaDB Server 10.7 is now the default server version
Docker Library
- Faster initialization by disabling binary logging during initialization (MDEV-27074)
- mysql_upgrade can be run if needed using the environment variable MARIADB_AUTO_UPGRADE=1 (MDEV-25670)
- A healthcheck script /usr/local/bin/healthcheck.sh is installed in the container with various checking options (MDEV-25434)
- mysql@localhost user is created with the environment variable MARIADB_MYSQL_LOCALHOST_USER=1 and additional grants (beyond USAGE) with MARIADB_MYSQL_LOCALHOST_GRANTS={global grant list} (MDEV-27732)
- skip innodb buffer pool loads/dumps on temporary startup/shutdown for faster startup/initialization, and accurate "healthcheck.sh --innodb_buffer_pool_loaded"
- change group ownership on datadir/socket dir (issue #401)
- log note about note on Securing system users, mysql_secure_installation not required (reddit suggestion)
- speed up Docker Library initialization of timezones (MDEV-27608, MDEV-23326)
- MariaDB names of executable programs and scripts used instead of historical mysql ones
Changelog
For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.8.1, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.
Contributors
For a full list of contributors to MariaDB 10.8.1, see the MariaDB Foundation release announcement.
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