This morning another customers #Galera Cluster live upgraded from 10.11 to 11.4. And as it seems, without any problems. .

Monty writes: "With the acquistion of #Galera by #MariaDB PLC, Galera becomes MariaDB 'only', which means that Galera team can now concentrate on improving Galera for MariaDB, with more resources and closer coperation with the MariaDB teams.". I assume.

MariaDB 11.8.2 now returns a NULL value instead of a 0 (zero) value for UNIX_TIMESTAMP(), which breaks our application and possibly others. So be sure to test carefully before upgrading!.

For those who haven't heard the news yet: #MariaDB plc. has acquired #Codership OY, the creator of #Galera Cluster for MariaDB, for #MySQL and #Percona XtraDB Cluster. We will see what impact this acquisition has. .

The #MariaDB #MaxScale "community" download has changed significantly! It is now only available as a 7-day trial, which I can live with. However, MariaDB MaxScale can now only address two backend database servers. This change renders MaxScale completely useless for us in our.

Why upgrading too quickly is not always a good idea. This morning, we upgraded to the #MariaDB 11.8.2 LTS release, and this afternoon we encountered the following issue:. Unsupported DB! MariaDB version 110802 is newer than maximum allowed 110599.Warning! Unsupported MariaDB.

It looks like this weeks #MariaDB releases have a regression (more locking, lock wait timeout, etc.). So do NOT upgrade for the moment! Downgrade seems to solve the problem again. MDEV-36766, MDEV-36772, MDEV-36759.

MariaDB plc has changed its subscription pricing model from instance to core effective 1 April 2025!.Good to know, now I also know how we need to develop strategically. .

Code, Vectors & Vision: A MariaDB Meetup with the Founder #Meetup via @Meetup.

270 Gbyte database upgrade from MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 in 1 h 15 min. Works perfectly after proper testing. .

Benjamin Dicken from PlanetScale has really gone to great lengths with the animations on I/O devices and latency in his blog article.

MariaDB Honeypot.We recently set up a MariaDB honeypot to see what was going on: Our data was partially downloaded, then deleted and an instruction to transfer a ransom in Bitcoins was deposited. You can read exactly how the attackers proceeded here:

Advanced MariaDB training.From 24 to 28 February (5 days), we will be holding an advanced MariaDB remote training course at Linuxhotel in Essen (Germany). If you urgently need to attend a MariaDB training, now is the opportunity!.You can register here:

The next #MariaDB release (2025-01) can replicate from #MySQL 8.0 Master. Not sure why you would need that, but good to know. Have some people missed the migration a few years ago?.

All our production database systems are upgraded to #MariaDB 11.4!.

MariaDB #Vector - first #AI tests: Artificial intelligence (AI) and vector databases are on everyone's lips these days. #MariaDB will soon be coming out with it, we have documented our first simple tests, which are comprehensible for everyone, here:

Our presentation: What's new in #MariaDB 11.4 at #FrOSCon 2024 in St. Augustin is now online.

FromDual has released version 2.3.1 of its popular backup and recovery manager for #MariaDB and #MySQL (brman). Customers have found two small but unpleasant bugs, which we have now fixed:.

We upgraded our first production #MariaDB 10.11 database to 11.4.3. It worked quite well. A few issues were solved quickly. Could cause some operational problems with huge databases. More details we will tell you in a consulting engagement.

With the new Backup- and Recovery-Manager Version 2.3.0 for #MariaDB and #MySQL, a partial physical database restore (only one database/schema) is much faster and easier than with conventional on-board tools.