Mariadb 11.6.2
Release date: 21 Nov 2024
MariaDB 11.6 is a rolling release. It is an evolution of MariaDB 11.5 with several entirely new features.
MariaDB 11.6.2 is a Stable (GA) release.
For an overview of MariaDB 11.6 see the What is MariaDB 11.6? page.
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
Notable Items
Storage Engines
InnoDB
- Defaults change - the innodb_snapshot_isolation system variable now defaults to ON, previously was OFF (MDEV-35124)
- Fix attempt to read outside the bounds of the file: ./ibdata1 (MDEV-34453)
- Fix MariaDB crash with SIGILL because the OS does not support AVX512 (MDEV-34565)
- Fix deadlock caused by lock_rec_unlock_unmodified() (MDEV-34690)
- Fix duplicate key error in table 'mysql.innodb_table_stats' (MDEV-34207)
- Fix possible adaptive hash index corruption with ALTER TABLE...IMPORT TABLESPACE and FULLTEXT SEARCH (MDEV-35059)
- XA prepare now correctly releases unmodified records in non-blocking mode (MDEV-34466)
- Fix contention between secondary index UPDATE and purge due to large innodb_purge_batch_size (MDEV-34515)
- New default of
127
for innodb_purge_batch_size (previously1000
).
- New default of
- Fix redundant page lookups that hurt performance (MDEV-34791)
Spider
- Fix server crash when calling spider UDF after aria_encrypt_tables is enabled (MDEV-34682)
- SELECT MIN on Spider table no longer returns more rows than expected (MDEV-26345)
- Fix Spider group by handler wrong result on order by aggregate (MDEV-29546)
S3
- Fix Storage Engine S3 that caused 500 error when using Huawai Cloud S3 and possibly other S3 providers (MDEV-34867)
- A new option s3-provider has been added.
s3-provider=Huawai
needs to be set for Huawai Cloud S3
- A new option s3-provider has been added.
Optimizer
- Fix crash caused by query containing constant having clause (MDEV-23983)
- Fix assertion with optimizer_join_limit_pref_ratio and 1-table select (MDEV-35072)
Data Definition - Alter Table
- Under Windows Subsystem for Linux, InnoDB crashes on ALTER TABLE or OPTIMIZE TABLE (MDEV-34938)
- modification of the column fails to check foreign key constraint (MDEV-34392)
- Incorrect NULL value handling for instantly dropped BLOB columns (MDEV-35122)
Galera
- Galera updated to 26.4.20
- Fix server crash when setting wsrep_cluster_address after adding invalid value to wsrep_allowlist table (MDEV-31173)
- TOI (ALTER) no longer hangs on a parent table if SR transaction is in progress on a child table (MDEV-34836)
- Fix INSERT...SELECT' on MyISAM table suddenly replicated by alera (MDEV-34647)
- Fix case where with wsrep_mode=REPLICATE_ARIA, only part of the mixed-engine transactions was replicated (MDEV-30653)
- Fix galera_ssl_reload failure with warning message (MDEV-32778)
- When InnoDB gets an assertion failure, WSREP layer is now handled gracefully (MDEV-32363)
Backup
- Recovery now correctly notes some log corruption (MDEV-34802)
- InnoDB now correctly merges the change buffer to ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED tables (MDEV-34879)
- Can now selectively restore sequences using innodb tables from backup (MDEV-32350)
JSON
- JSON_TABLE now properly unquotes strings (MDEV-27412)
- JSON_TABLE default values now allows non-string literals (MDEV-25822)
General
- mariadbd no longer hangs on startup when --init-file target does not exist (MDEV-34814)
- LOAD DATA INFILE with geometry data no longer fails (MDEV-34883)
- Fix heap-use-after-free in group_concat with compressed or GIS columns (MDEV-16699)
- Fix assertion `!is_cond()' failed in Item_bool_func::val_int / do_select (MDEV-35135)
- Trigger now works correctly with bulk update (MDEV-34718)
- Fix assertion failure in find_producing_item upon a query from a view (MDEV-35276)
- Add new setting, --quick-max-column-width to the mariadb client for use in --quick mode (MDEV-34704)