Download MariaDB 10.2.7

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 10.2.7 with the following announcement:

MariaDB 10.2.7 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 10.2.7 is a Stable (GA) release.

Notable Changes

This is the second stable release in the MariaDB 10.2 series.

• TokuDB updated to 5.6.36-82.0
• MariaDB Backup beta now included for Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora packages. See MDEV-13311 for an important note about restoring with this version.
• MDEV-13125: Core dumps can now be enabled dynamically
• New variables:
  • tmp_disk_table_size
  • tmp_memory_table_size
• As per the MariaDB Deprecation Policy, this will be the last release of MariaDB 10.2 for Ubuntu 16.10 “Yakkety”

Notes
For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.2.7, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.