MariaDB 10.1.6 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.1.6/

This is the 4th beta, and 7th overall, release of MariaDB 10.1. There were not many major changes in this release, but a few notable items, as well as many overall bugs fixed (I counted 156, down ~50% from 10.1.5).

Since it’s beta, 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:

• RESET_MASTER is extended with TO # clause which allows one to specify the number of the first binary log. (MDEV-8469)
• Added support for …

MariaDB 10.0.20 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.20/

This is the eleventh GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 21st overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

There were no major functionality changes, but there was one security fix, 6 crashing bugs fixed, some general upstream fixes, and quite a few bug fixes, so let me cover the highlights:

• Security Fix: Client command line option –ssl-verify-server-cert (and MYSQL_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT option of the client API) when used together with –ssl will ensure that the established connection is SSL-encrypted and the MariaDB server has a valid certificate. This fixes CVE-2015-3152.
• Crashing …

MariaDB 5.5.44 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.44/

This is a maintenance release, and no major changes, so there are only several noteworthy items (but one of those being a security fix and five potential crashing bug):

• Security Fix: Client command line option –ssl-verify-server-cert (and MYSQL_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT option of the client API) when used together with –ssl will ensure that the established connection is SSL-encrypted and the MariaDB server has a valid certificate. This fixes CVE-2015-3152.
• Crashing Bug: mysql_upgrade crashes the server with REPAIR VIEW ( …

MariaDB 10.1.5 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.1.5/

This is the 3rd beta, and 6th overall, release of MariaDB 10.1. There were not many major changes in this release, but a few notable items, as well as many overall bugs fixed (I counted 306).

Since it’s beta, 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:

• New status variables: New status variables Binlog_group_commit_trigger_count, …

MariaDB 10.1.4 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.1.4/

This is the 2nd beta, and 5th overall, release of MariaDB 10.1. Now that it is beta, there were not as many major changes in this release (compared to 10.1.3), but there were a few notable items as well as many overall bugs fixed (I counted 367).

Since it’s beta, 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:

• Encryption: Many, many changes related to Table and Tablespace Encryption that was implemented in …

MariaDB 10.0.19 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.19/

This is the tenth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 20th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This was a quick release in order to get a fix for a mysql_upgrade bug (MDEV-8115) introduced in 10.0.18, so there is that, and only 9 other bug fixes.

Here are the main items of note:

• Fixed the server crash caused by mysql_upgrade (MDEV-8115)
• Connect upgraded to 1.03.0007

Due to the mysql_upgrade bug fix as well as all of the fixes in MariaDB …

MariaDB 10.0.18 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.18/

This is the ninth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 19th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

There were no major functionality changes, but there were some general improvements, several security fixes, plus a 10.0.18 mysql_upgrade caution, and quite a few bug fixes, so let me cover what I feel are the main items of note:

• Security Fixes: Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2014-8964 / CVE-2015-2325 …

MariaDB 5.5.43 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.43/

This is a maintenance release, and so there were not too many major changes, but definitely a few worth mentioning, as well as one *important* caution:

• Security Fixes: Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2015-0501
  • CVE-2015-2571
  • …

MariaDB 10.1.3 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.1.3/

This is the 1st beta, and 4th overall, release of MariaDB 10.1, so there are a lot of new changes, functionalities added, defaults changed, and many bugs fixed (I counted 420 – 117 in 10.1.2 & 637 in 10.1.1, fwiw).

Since it’s beta, 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:

• Table and Tablespace Encryption.
• …

MariaDB 5.5.42 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.42/

This is a maintenance release, and so there were not too many changes at all and only 3 changes (enhancements) I felt noteworthy:

• 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 please refer to the About the MariaDB Audit Plugin page. The plugin is …