Download MariaDB 10.4.5

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 are working hard and have released version 10.4.5 as a release candidate for the 10.4.x branch. The abbreviated announcement of this release is as follows:

MariaDB 10.4.5 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 10.4.5 is a Release Candidate (RC) release.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable Changes

General Server

• New mysqlimport option, –ignore-foreign-keys (MDEV-788).
• Setting sql_mode to MSSQL implements a limited subset of Microsoft SQL Server’s language. See SQL_MODE=MSSQL (MDEV-19142).
• Add CAST(expr AS FLOAT) (MDEV-16872).
• List of slave transaction errors that will result in a retry rather than a halt (slave_transaction_retry_errors) have been increased by default, assisting Spider setups to be more robust (MDEV-16543).
• MDEV-15458 – Segfault in heap_scan() upon UPDATE after ADD SYSTEM VERSIONING
• MDEV-19235 – MariaDB Server compiled for 128 Indexes crashes at startup

InnoDB

• Merge InnoDB changes from MySQL 5.6.44 and 5.7.26
• Fixes of corruption or crashes: MDEV-19241, MDEV-13942, MDEV-19385, MDEV-16060, MDEV-18220, MDEV-17540
• InnoDB recovery fixes and speedup: MDEV-12699, MDEV-19356

encryption

• MDEV-14398 – innodb_encrypt_tables will work even with innodb_encryption_rotate_key_age=0

Information scheme

• MDEV-19490 show tables fails when selecting the information_schema database

Statistics

• MDEV-19407 – Assertion `field->table->stats_is_read’ failed in is_eits_usable
• New status variable, Aborted_connects_preauth, that records the number of connection attempts that were aborted prior to authentication (MDEV-19277).

packaging

• As per the MariaDB Deprecation Policy, this is the last release of MariaDB 10.4 for Fedora 28
• Packages and a repository for Fedora 30 and Ubuntu 19.04 “disco” have been added with this release, visit the Repository Configuration Tool for instructions on adding the repository

Security

• Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2019-2614
  • CVE-2019-2627
  • CVE-2019-2628

changelog
For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.4.5, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.