Download MariaDB 10.2.12

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. MariaDB is a powerful open source database server, which is especially popular as a website and forum database. The developers have released version 10.2.12 in the stable branch with the following announcement:

MariaDB 10.2.12 Release Notes

MariaDB 10.2 is the current stable series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.1 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL 5.6 and 5.7.

MariaDB 10.2.12 is a Stable (GA) release.

Notable Changes

• MDEV-12837 – WSREP: BF lock wait long
• MDEV-14799 – After UPDATE of indexed columns, old values ​​will not be purged from secondary indexes
• MDEV-12827 – Assertion failure when reporting duplicate key error in online table rebuild
• MDEV-14008 – Failure reading auto-increment values ​​in DOUBLE column from storage engine
• MDEV-12323 – Rollback progress log messages during crash recovery are intermixed with unrelated log messages
• MDEV-12352 – InnoDB shutdown should not be blocked by a large transaction rollback
• MDEV-13797 – InnoDB may hang if shutdown is initiated soon after startup while rolling back recovered incomplete transactions
• MDEV-14422 – Assertion failure in trx_purge_run() on shutdown
• MDEV-14589 – InnoDB should not lock a delete-marked record
• MDEV-14714 / MDEV-14488 / MDEV-14644 – data corruption caused by error log messages ending up in database files or binary logs
• MDEV-14511 – Use fewer transactions for updating InnoDB persistent statistics
• MDEV-13670 / MDEV-14550 – Error log flood : “InnoDB: page_cleaner: 1000ms intended loop took N ms. The settings might not be optimal.”
• • mariabackup: MDEV-14536 – during backup, retry read of log blocks, if there is (possibly intermittent) checksum mismatch
• As per the MariaDB Deprecation Policy, this will be the last release of MariaDB 10.2 for Ubuntu 17.04 “Zesty”.

Updates

• The reserved word WINDOW is now only disallowed for table aliases.

Notes
For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.2.12 with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.