Download MariaDB 10.3.5

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 10.3.5 in the unstable branch as a release candidate, with the following announcement:

MariaDB 10.3.5 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 10.3.5 is an RC release.

Notable Changes

• The PL/SQL stored procedure dialect (enabled with sql_mode=ORACLE) now supports Oracle style packages. Support for the following statements has been added (MDEV-10591):
  • CREATE PACKAGE
  • CREATE PACKAGE BODY
  • DROP PACKAGE
  • DROP PACKAGE BODY
  • SHOW CREATE PACKAGE
  • SHOW CREATE PACKAGE BODY
• The MyRocks storage engine is now RC.
• Numerous performance improvements for high-concurrency load.
• Useless @@system_versioning_innodb_algorithm_simple server variable was removed.
• New sql_mode SIMULTANEOUS_ASSIGNMENT to make the SET part of the UPDATE statement evaluate all assignments simultaneously, not left-to-right.
• Numerous scalability and performance improvements to global data structures, including MDEV-14756, MDEV-15019, MDEV-14482, MDEV-15059, MDEV-15104
• Correctness improvement – TRUNCATE honors transactional locks (MDEV-15061)
• Performance improvements to persistent data structures: MDEV-15090, MDEV-15132

Other Changes

• On Linux, shrink the core dumps by omitting the InnoDB buffer pool (MDEV-10814)
• Fix upgrades from earlier InnoDB versions (MDEV-15370)
• New status variable innodb_buffer_pool_load_incomplete (MDEV-11455)
• As per the MariaDB Deprecation Policy, 10.3 binary tarball packages for GLIBC_2.5 (that were built on CentOS 5) have been discontinued.

Notable Bug Fixes merged from 10.2

MariaDB 10.3.5 includes all bug fixes from MariaDB 10.2.13, including the following:

• MDEV-11415 Remove excessive undo logging during ALTER TABLE…ALGORITHM=COPY
• Faster startup when no crash recovery is done (MDEV-15333, MDEV-13869)

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.3.5, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.