Download MariaDB 10.2.18

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 10.2.18. The first stable from the 10.2.x branch dates from May 2017 and has received support for five years. The abbreviated announcement of this release is as follows:

MariaDB 10.2.18 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 10.2.18 is a Stable (GA) release.

Notable Changes

• MDEV-15511 – if available, stunnel can be used during Galera rsync SST
• MDEV-15088 – Remove debuginfo files from Windows .zip files and put in optional supplemental .zip file
• MDEV-16791 – mariabackup: Support DDL commands during backup
• MDEV-13564 – Refuse MLOG_TRUNCATE in mariabackup
• MDEV-16934 – add new system variable eq_range_index_dive_limit to speed up queries that new long nested IN lists. The default value, for backward compatibility, is 0 meaning “unlimited”./25.
• The Galera library in the repositories has been updated to version 25.3.24.

Bug Fixes

• MDEV-13333 – errors on InnoDB lock conflict
• Report all InnoDB redo log corruption
• MDEV-17043 – Purge of indexed virtual columns may cause hang on table-rebuilding DDL
• MDEV-16868 – corruption of InnoDB temporary tables
• MDEV-16465 – Invalid (old?) table or database name or hang in ha_innobase::delete_table and log semaphore wait upon concurrent DDL with foreign keys

Code Cleanup

• MDEV-16557 – Remove INNOBASE_SHARE
• MDEV-16136 – Simplify trx_lock_t memory management