Download MariaDB 10.3.2

MariaDB originated as a fork of MySQL after it was acquired by Oracle in 2009/2010. For an overview of the differences between MariaDB and MySQL you can visit: this one and this one pages right. It is a powerful open source database server that is especially popular as a website and forum database. The developers have released version 10.3.2 in the development branch with the following announcement:

MariaDB 10.3.2 Release Notes

MariaDB 10.3 is the current development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.2 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL. MariaDB 10.3.2 is an Alpha release.

Notable Changes

Notable changes of this release include:

• Instant ADD COLUMN (MDEV-11369) — Tencent Game DBA Team, developed by vinchen.
• UPDATE statements with the same source and target (MDEV-12874) — from Jerome Brauge.
• ORDER BY and LIMIT in multi-table update (MDEV-13911)
• DATE_FORMAT(date, format, locale) – 3 argument form of DATE_FORMAT (MDEV-11553)

compression

• Storage engine Independent Column Compression (MDEV-11371) — Tencent Game DBA Team, developed by willhan, also thanks to AliSQL.

encryption

• Temporary files created by merge sort and row log are encrypted if innodb_encrypt_log is set to 1, regardless of whether the table encrypted or not (MDEV-12634).

Variables

• version_source_revision – permits seeing which version of the source was used for the build (MDEV-12583).
• Renamed idle_readwrite_transaction_timeout to idle_write_transaction_timeout.

The following deprecated variables have been removed:

• innodb_mtflush_threads
• innodb_use_mtflush

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.3.2, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.