MariaDB 10.0.17 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.17/

This is the eighth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 18th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

For the most part, there are not a whole lot of new changes to report for this release, but there is a new version of the Audit Plugin and many other engines have been updated as well.

Here are the main items of note:

1. The new version of the Audit Plugin is 1.2 is included with the following new features:
   • In the audit log passwords are now masked, i.e. the password characters are replaced with asterisks.
   • It’s now possible to filter logging to include only DDL (CREATE, ALTER, etc.) or DML (INSERT, UPDATE, etc.) statements.
   • For more information …

MariaDB 10.0.16 was recently released (~1.5 months ago on 1/27/2015 – sorry for the delay on my end – I was just extra busy in my spare time recently), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.16/

This is the seventh GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 17th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

For the most part, there are not a whole lot of changes to report for this release, but there are 2 enhancements of note – one being the JSON table type (still *experimental*) and the other a new variable to aid with index statistics calculations on large tables, as well as some security fixes.

Here are the main items of note:

1. Updates to the CONNECT handler (supporting the …

MariaDB 10.1.2 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.1.2/

This is the third alpha release of MariaDB 10.1, so there are still a lot of new changes, functionalities added, defaults changed, and many bugs fixed (I counted 117, which is *way* down from the 637 fixed in 10.1.1). Since it’s alpha, I’ll only cover the major changes and additions, and omit covering general bug fixes (feel free to browse them all here).

To me, these are the highlights of the new features:

• –mysql56-temporal-format option to use the MySQL-5.6 low level formats to store …

MariaDB 10.0.15 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.15/

This is the sixth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 16th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This release has an important InnoDB/XtraDB fix, a new addition, security enhancements (and improvement) – all related to yaSSL, so be sure to check out these fixes if you’re running MariaDB 10.0, and not up to 10.0.15 yet. (MariaDB 10.0 is the current stable series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of the MariaDB 5.5 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL 5.6.)

Here are the main items of note:

1. This release fixes a serious bug in InnoDB and XtraDB that sometimes could cause a hard lock up of the server ( …

MariaDB 5.5.41 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.41/

This is a maintenance release, and so there were not too many changes, *but* please take notice as there are 2 very important bug fixes:

• Bug Fixed: A fix to a serious bug in InnoDB and XtraDB that sometimes could cause a hard lock up of the server (Bug #MDEV-7026)
• Bug Fixed: A fix to unnecessary waits in InnoDB and XtraDB (Bug #MDEV-7100)
• Includes all bugfixes and updates from MySQL 5.5.41 ( …

MariaDB 10.1.1 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.1.1/

This is the second alpha release of MariaDB 10.1, so there are a lot of new changes and functionalities added, and many, many bugs fixed (I counted 637). Since it’s alpha, I’ll only cover the major changes and additions, as there are a lot of great new features, and omit covering any of the bug fixes (feel free to browse them all here).

To me, these are the highlights of the new features:

• InnoDB: You can now use OPTIMIZE TABLE to defragment InnoDB tablespaces (merged the Facebook/Kakao defragmentation patch). (Good blog post …

MariaDB 5.5.40 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.40/

This is a maintenance release, and so there are not too many big changes of note, just a number of normal bug fixes. However, there are a few items worth mentioning:

• Includes all bugfixes and updates from MySQL 5.5.40 (MySQL 5.5.40 Overview and Highlights)
• XtraDB updated to the version from …

MariaDB 10.0.14 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.14/

This is the fifth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 15th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This is primarily a bug-fix release. (MariaDB 10.0 is the current stable series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of the MariaDB 5.5 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL 5.6.)

Here are the main items of note:

1. TokuDB upgraded to 7.5.0
2. XtraDB upgraded to 5.6.20-68.0
3. InnoDB upgraded to 5.6.20
4. …

MariaDB 10.0.13 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.13/

This is the fourth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 14th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This is primarily a bug-fix release.

Here are the main items of note:

1. InnoDB upgraded to 5.6.19.
2. XtraDB upgraded to 5.6.19-67.0.
…

MariaDB 5.5.39 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.39/

This is a maintenance release, and so there are not too many big changes of note, just a number of normal bug fixes. However, there are a few items worth mentioning:

• Includes all bugfixes and updates from MySQL 5.5.39 (MySQL 5.5.39 Overview and Highlights)
• XtraDB updated to the version from …