The Ultimate Guide to High Availability with MariaDB
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MariaDB 5.2.8 Release Notes

The most recent release in the MariaDB 5.2 series is: MariaDB 5.2.14

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Release date: 18 Aug 2011

Contents

  1. Aria Fixes and Changes
  2. Various Bug Fixes

MariaDB 5.2.8 is a Stable release. In general this means there are no known serious bugs and we believe the code is ready for general usage. A "stable" MariaDB release is equivalent to a MySQL "GA" release.

For a high-level description of MariaDB 5.2.8 see the What is MariaDB 5.2 page.

For a list of every change made in MariaDB 5.2.8, including the various bugs that were fixed and links to detailed information on each push, see the MariaDB 5.2.8 Changelog. See previous release notes and changelogs for changes made in previous versions of MariaDB.

In most respects MariaDB will work exactly as MySQL: all commands, interfaces, libraries and APIs that exist in MySQL also exist in MariaDB.

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Some highlights of this release:

Aria Fixes and Changes

  • Fixes for Aria recover
  • Fixes for updates with long keys.
  • The max key length for aria has been reduced from about block_size/2 to block_size/3 (because the underflow algorithm requires this)

Various Bug Fixes

Several bugs were fixed in this version of MariaDB. See the MariaDB 5.2.8 Changelog for details.

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