MariaDB 10.1.0 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.1.0/

This is the first alpha release of MariaDB 10.1, so there are a lot of new changes and functionalities added, which cover a wide variety of areas such as: Performance, InnoDB/XtraDB, WebScaleSQL, Optimizer, Security, Storage Engine functionality, & Administration Improvements.

These are 9 of the most notable changes in MariaDB 10.1.0 (but do check out the release notes and changelogs below for the full list of changes):

1. InnoDB: Allow > 16K pages on InnoDB – InnoDB now allows page size to be configured as 16K, 32K and 64K. Note that single row size must be < 16K. This feature will allow …

MariaDB 10.0.12 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.12/

This is the third GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 13th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This is primarily a bug-fix release.

Here are the main items of note:

1. Updated Spider storage engine to version 3.2.4.
2. Updated Connect engine.
3. Updated pcre to version 8.35.
4. Exists-to-In optimization is now enabled by default.
5. …

MariaDB 5.5.38 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.38/

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 5.5.38

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MariaDB 5.5.38 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.38/

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 5.5.38
• XtraDB updated to the version from Percona Server 5.5.37-35.0
• TokuDB updated to version …

MariaDB 10.0.11 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.11/

This is the second GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 12th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This is primarily a bug-fix release.

Here are the main items of note:

1. Updated TokuDB engine to version 7.1.6
2. Updated Spider storage engine to version 3.2 (now Gamma)
3. Updated XtraDB storage engine to version 5.6.17-65.0
4. Updated InnoDB storage engine to version 5.6.17
5. Updated …

MariaDB 5.5.37 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.37/

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 5.5.37

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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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MariaDB 10.0.9 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.9/

This is the second RC (“Release Candidate”) release of MariaDB 10.0, and 10th overall release of 10.0. All features planned for MariaDB 10.0 GA are included in this release.

There were 6 notable changes in MariaDB 10.0.9:

1. InnoDB upgraded to version 5.6.15
2. Extended-keys optimization is now enabled by default.
3. MariaDB can be compiled to use the system’s PCRE library.
4. Added MASTER_GTID_WAIT() and …

MariaDB 5.5.36 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.36/

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 couple items worth mentioning:

1. Includes all bugfixes and updates from: MySQL 5.5.36
2. TokuDB is now included in RPM packages for CentOS 6 on x86-64

Note this release did not contain the bugfixes from XtraDB 5.5.36 yet. There is one bug fix in XtraDB 5.5.36 that is fairly serious, so if you are a *heavy* XtraDB+ user, I might wait for MariaDB 5.5.37 to be released, so you get this fix. I should note the bug was partially fixed in 5.5.35, and I did …

MariaDB 10.0.8 was recently released as RC ("Release Candidate"), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.8/

This is the first RC release of MariaDB 10.0. It is primarily a bug-fix and polishing release, and all features planned for MariaDB 10.0 GA are included in this release.

There were 6 notable changes in MariaDB 10.0.8:

1. InnoDB upgraded to version 5.6.14

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