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title: "MaxScale 1.4.0 Beta is available for download"
publish_date: 2016-03-18
updated_date: 2019-02-16
author: "MariaDB"
---

# MaxScale 1.4.0 Beta is available for download

![MaxScale-P1-092915_600px_0.png](/sites/default/files/pictures/Images/MaxScale-P1-092915_600px_0.png)We are pleased to announce that MaxScale 1.4.0 Beta is now available for download! If MaxScale is new to you, we recommend reading [this page](https://staging-mdb.com/products/mariadb-maxscale) first.

MaxScale 1.4.0 Beta brings:

1. The [Firewall Filter](https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/blob/1.4.0/Documentation/Release-Notes/MaxScale-1.4.0-Release-Notes.md#firewall-filter) has been extended and can now be used for either black-listing or white-listing queries. In addition it is capable of logging both queries that match and queries that do not match.
2. Client-side [SSL](https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/blob/1.4.0/Documentation/Release-Notes/MaxScale-1.4.0-Release-Notes.md#ssl) has been available in MaxScale for a while, but it has been somewhat unreliable. We now believe that client side SSL is fully functional and usable.

In addition, a number of bugs have been [fixed](https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/blob/1.4.0/Documentation/Release-Notes/MaxScale-1.4.0-Release-Notes.md#bug-fixes).

The release notes can be found [here](https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/blob/1.4.0/Documentation/Release-Notes/MaxScale-1.4.0-Release-Notes.md) and the binaries can be downloaded from the [portal](https://staging-mdb.com/my_portal/download/maxscale).

In case you want to build the binaries yourself, the source can be found at GitHub, tagged with [1.4.0](https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/tree/1.4.0).

We hope you will download and use this beta, and we encourage you to create a bug report in [Jira](https://jira.mariadb.org/projects/MXS/issues) for any bugs you might encounter.

The MaxScale 1.4 docs are on the [MariaDB MaxScale Knowledge Base pages](https://staging-mdb.com/kb/en/mariadb-enterprise/mariadb-maxscale/).

On behalf of the entire MaxScale team.