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MariaDB originated as a fork of MySQL, after it was taken over by Oracle. 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 versions 10.5.16† 10.6.8† 10.7.4† 10.8.3 and 10.9.1 released. The most important changes and improvements made in version 10.8.3 are listed below:

InnoDB

• Reduced scalability bottlenecks. Minimum size of innodb_log_file_size increased from 1MB to 4MB to cater for rare error message. †MDEV-27774†
• innodb_disallow_writes removed (MDEV-25975†
• InnoDB gap locking fixes (MDEV-20605† MDEV-28422†
• InnoDB performance improvements (MDEV-27557† MDEV-28185† MDEV-27767† MDEV-28313† MDEV-28137† MDEV-28465† MDEV-26789†
• Backup regression fixes (MDEV-27919†
• InnoDB portability: FreeBSD futexes (MDEV-26476), POWER and s390x transactional memory (MDEV-27956†
• ALTER TABLE: Fixed bogus duplicate key errors (MDEV-15250†
• DDL and crash recovery fixes (MDEV-27274† MDEV-27234† MDEV-27817†
• Requests to recalculate persistent statistics were sometimes lost (MDEV-27805†

Replication

• Semisync-slave server recovery is refined to correctly rollback prepared transaction (MDEV-28461†
• Circular semisync setup endless event circulation is handled (MDEV-27760†
• Semisync-slave server recovery is extended to work on new server_id server (MDEV-27342†
• Server initialization time gtid_slave_pos purge related reason of crashing in binlog background thread is removed (MDEV-26473†
• Shutdown of the semisync master can’t produce inconsistent state anymore (MDEV-11853†
• Blogs disappear after rsync IST (MDEV-28583†
• autocommit=0 slave hang is eliminated (DBAAS-7828)
• master crash is eliminated in compressed semisync replication protocol with packet counting amendment (MDEV-25580†
• OPTIMIZE on a sequence does not cause counterfactual ER_BINLOG_UNSAFE_STATEMENT anymore (MDEV-24617†
• Automatically generated Gtid_log_list_event is made to recognize within replication event group as a formal member (MDEV-28550†
• Replication unsafe INSERT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE using two or more unique key values ​​at a time with MIXED format binlogging is corrected (MDEV-28310†
• Replication unsafe INSERT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE stops issuing unnessary “Unsafe statement” with MIXED binlog format (MDEV-21810†
• Incomplete replication event groups are detected to error out by the slave IO thread (MDEV-27697†
• mysqlbinlog –stop-never –raw now flushes the result file to disk after each processed event so the file can be listed with the actual bytes (MDEV-14608†

backup

• Incorrect binlogs after Galera SST using rsync and mariabackup (MDEV-27524†
• mariabackup does not detect multi-source replication slave (MDEV-21037†
• Useless warning “InnoDB: Allocated tablespace ID for , old maximum was 0″ during backup stage (MDEV-27343†
• mariabackup prepare fails for incrementals if a new schema is created after full backup is taken (MDEV-28446†

Optimizer

• Query performance degradation in newer MariaDB versions when using many tables (MDEV-28073†
• A SEGV in Item_field::used_tables/update_depend_map_for_order… (MDEV-26402†
• ANALYZE FORMAT=JSON fields are incorrect for UNION ALL queries (MDEV-27699†
• Subquery in an UPDATE query uses full scan instead of range (MDEV-22377†
• Assertion `item1->type() == Item::FIELD_ITEM … (MDEV-19398†
• Server crashes in Expression_cache_tracker::fetch_current_stats (MDEV-28268†
• MariaDB server crash at Item_subselect::init_expr_cache_tracker (MDEV-26164† MDEV-26047†
• Crash with union of my_decimal type in ORDER BY clause (MDEV-25994†
• SIGSEGV in st_join_table::cleanup(MDEV-24560†
• Assertion `!eliminated’ failed in Item_subselect::exec (MDEV-28437†

spider

• spider_crd_type and spider_crd_weight have been deprecated (MDEV-28010†

General

• Server error messages are now available in Chinese †MDEV-28227†
• For RHEL/CentOS 7, non x86_64 architectures are no longer supported upstream and so our support will also be dropped with this release
• Packages for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS “Jammy” and Fedora 36 are now available in this release

changelog

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.8.3with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog†