MariaDB DBAs are accountable for auditing database infrastructure operations to proactively troubleshoot performance and operational issues, MariaDB Audit Plugin is capable of auditing the database operations of both MariaDB and MySQL. MariaDB Audit Plugin is provided as a dynamic library: server_audit.so (server_audit.dll for Windows).  The plugin must be located in the plugin directory, the directory containing all plugin libraries for MariaDB.

MariaDB [(none)]> select @@plugin_dir; 
+--------------------------+
| @@plugin_dir             |
+--------------------------+
| /usr/lib64/mysql/plugin/ |
+--------------------------+
1 row in set (0.000 sec)

There are two ways you can install MariaDB Audit Plugin:

INSTALL SONAME statement while logged into MariaDB, You need to use administrative account which has INSERT privilege for the mysql.plugin table.

MariaDB [(none)]> INSTALL SONAME 'server_audit'; …

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 10.0.15 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 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 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 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 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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