Download MariaDB 10.3.8

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 10.3.8 in the stable branch, with the following announcement:

MariaDB 10.3.8 Release Notes

MariaDB 10.3 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 10.3.8 is a Stable (GA) release.

Notable Changes

Notable changes of this release include:

• MDEV-8743 – O_CLOEXEC on innodb/xtradb temp files
• MDEV-16267 – Wrong INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE.TABLE_NAME
• MDEV-13779 – InnoDB fails to shut down purge, causing hang
• MDEV-16283 – ALTER TABLE…DISCARD TABLESPACE still takes long on a large buffer pool
• MDEV-13834 – Upgrade failure from 10.1 innodb_encrypt_log
• MDEV-16376 – ASAN: heap-use-after-free in gcol.innodb_virtual_debug
• MDEV-15824 – innodb_defragment=ON trumps innodb_optimize_fulltext_only=ON in OPTIMIZE TABLE
• MDEV-16124 – fil_rename_tablespace() times out and crashes server during table-rebuilding ALTER TABLE
• MDEV-16416 – Crash on IMPORT TABLESPACE of a ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED table
• MDEV-16456 – InnoDB error “returned OS error 71” complains about wrong path
• MDEV-16469 – SET GLOBAL innodb_change_buffering has no effect
• MDEV-13103 – Deal with page_compressed page corruption
• MDEV-15611 – Due to the failure of foreign key detection, Galera slave node killed himself
• MDEV-16496 – Mariabackup: Implement –verbose option to instrument InnoDB log apply
• MDEV-16087 – Inconsistent SELECT results when query cache is enabled
• MDEV-15114 – ASAN heap-use-after-free in mem_heap_dup or dfield_data_is_binary_equal
• MDEV-16330 – Allow instant change of WITH SYSTEM VERSIONING column attribute
• MDEV-16365 – Setting a column NOT NULL fails to return error for NULL values ​​when there is no DEFAULT
• MDEV-15953 – Alter InnoDB Partitioned Table Moves Files (which were originally not in the datadir) to the datadir
• MDEV-13122: mariabackup now supports MyRocks storage engine
• As per the MariaDB Deprecation Policy, this will be the last release of MariaDB 10.3 for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful

changelog
For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.3.8, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.