Download MariaDB 5.5.61

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 5.5.61. The first stable from the 5.5.x branch dates from April 2012, and has received support for eight years, with which mainly security updates are implemented. The abbreviated announcement looks like this:

MariaDB 5.5.61 Release Notes

This is a Stable (GA) release. In most respects MariaDB will work exactly as MySQL: all commands, interfaces, libraries and APIs that exist in MySQL also exist in MariaDB.

Updates & Bug Fixes

MariaDB 5.5.61 is a maintenance release. It includes bug fixes and updates, including from MySQL 5.5.61.

Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:

• CVE-2018-3081
• CVE-2018-3063
• CVE-2018-3058
• CVE-2018-3066

A full list of all changes is in the changelog†
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!