MariaDB 10.1.3 Release Notes

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Release date: 2 Mar 2015

MariaDB 10.1 is the current development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.0 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL 5.6 and 5.7.

MariaDB 10.1.3 is a Beta release. One should not expect any notable new features or incompatible interface changes in 10.1 after this release.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Major new features

• Table and Tablespace Encryption.
• Optimistic mode of in-order parallel replication (MDEV-6676) and two new associated system variables:
  • slave_parallel_mode
  • skip_parallel_replication
• Enhanced semisync replication (MDEV-162)

Other notable changes

• Consistent support for IF EXISTS, IF NOT EXISTS, and OR REPLACE clauses:
  • These statements now also support IF NOT EXISTS and OR REPLACE:
    • CREATE DATABASE (MDEV-7280)
    • CREATE FUNCTION UDF (MDEV-7283)
    • CREATE ROLE (MDEV-7288)
    • CREATE SERVER (MDEV-7285)
    • CREATE USER (MDEV-7288)
    • CREATE VIEW (MDEV-7283)
  • These statements now support IF EXISTS:
    • DROP ROLE (MDEV-7288)
    • DROP USER (MDEV-7288)
• InnoDB/XtraDB Page compression now supports snappy compression method
• Dump Thread Enhancements from Google (MDEV-7257)
• The wsrep_dirty_reads system variable for permitting dirty Galera reads.
• new read-only server variable version_ssl_library that shows the version of currently used SSL library.
• new command-line option --getopt-prefix-matching that makes it possible to disable historical "unambiguous prefix" matching in the command-line option parsing.
• INFORMATION_SCHEMA.APPLICABLE_ROLES table has a new IS_DEFAULT column (MDEV-6918). See SET DEFAULT ROLE.
• INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS table has a new ALGORITHM column (MDEV-6731).
• Improved concurrency: table definition cache now has lock-free implementation completely avoiding any global locks.
• EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON now supports and prints more optimizations (range+MRR, "range checked for each record", full scan on NULL key, expensive constants, etc)

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.1.3, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.