MariaDB 10.0.10 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.10/

This is the first GA ("Generally Availability", aka "recommended for production systems") release of MariaDB 10.0, and 11th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

Since this is the initial 10.0 GA release, this is primarily a bug-fix and polishing release.

Here are the main items of note:

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Well, as you or may not have heard, MariaDB 5.5 (5.5.23) was declared GA last week!

It was only about 6-ish weeks ago that MariaDB 5.5 had been released as alpha, so the fact it’s already GA is excellent news for all MariaDB users (and MySQL 5.5 users looking to migrate).

Some of the 5.5 enhancements include:

• Significantly more efficient thread pool, comparable in functionality to the closed source feature in MySQL Enterprise.
• Non-blocking client API Library (MWL#192)
• @@skip_replication option (MWL#234)
• SphinxSE updated to version 2.0.4.
• “extended keys” support for XtraDB and InnoDB
• New INSTALL SONAME statement
• New LIMIT ROWS EXAMINED optimization.
• mysql_real_connect() Changes
  In MySQL, and in MariaDB versions before 5.5.21, mysql_real_connect() …