Download MariaDB 10.4.1

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 10.4.1, noting that this is currently a development branch of MariaDB. The abbreviated announcement of this release is as follows:

MariaDB 10.4.1 Release Notes

MariaDB 10.4 is the current development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.3 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL. MariaDB 10.4.1 is a Beta release.

Notable changes of this release include:

• Syntax
  • New FLUSH SSL command to reload SSL certificates without server restart (MDEV-16266)
  • New CAST target — CAST(x AS INTERVAL DAY_SECOND(N)) (MDEV-17776)
• Variables
  • New sql-mode setting, TIME_ROUND_FRACTIONAL (MDEV-16991)
  • Two new values ​​for the variable use_stat_tables: COMPLEMENTARY_FOR_QUERIES and PREFERABLY_FOR_QUERIES (MDEV-17255)
  • Engine Independent Table Statistics is now enabled by default; new default values ​​are use_stat_tables=PREFERABLY_FOR_QUERIES and optimizer_use_condition_selectivity=4 (MDEV-15253)
  • New variable gtid_cleanup_batch_size for determining how many old rows must accumulate in the mysql.gtid_slave_pos table before a background job will be run to delete them.
• Other Features
  • Support for window UDF functions via the new method x_remove (MDEV-15073)
  • Json service for plugins (MDEV-5313)
  • Much faster privilege checks for MariaDB setups with many user accounts or many database grants (MDEV-15649)
  • mysql.user table is retired. User accounts and global privileges are now stored in the mysql.global_priv table (MDEV-17658)
• Bug Fixes
  • Lots of miscellaneous fixes
  • Bug fixes for MDEV-15562 instant DROP COLUMN

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.4.1, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.