---
title: "Invitation to Join MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 Beta!"
publish_date: 2016-08-15
updated_date: 2020-08-10
author: "MariaDB"
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  - name: "Download"
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  - name: "High Availability"
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  - name: "MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 Beta"
    url: "/resources/blog/tag/mariadb-maxscale-2-0-beta.md"
  - name: "MaxScale"
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  - name: "New Release"
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  - name: "Release"
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---

# Invitation to Join MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 Beta!

Today, [MariaDB MaxScale](https://staging-mdb.com/products/mariadb-maxscale), the database proxy for MariaDB, is reaching its next major milestone – the availability of MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 Beta software release. Beta is an important time in our release and we encourage you to [download this release](https://staging-mdb.com/resources/downloads) today!

MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 introduces several new capabilities:

Data Streaming

- Built upon MaxScale’s Binlog Server functionality, you can now stream transactional data in real time from MariaDB to other big data stores like Hadoop or a data warehouse through messaging systems, like Kafka, for real-time analytics and machine learning applications. The package includes sample client applications for a Kafka producer and a standalone Python application to receive streaming data from MaxScale.

Better Security

- Transport layer security with end-to-end SSL through MaxScale
- MaxAdmin security improvements to enable configurable prevention of remote access
- Connection rate limitation to protect against DDoS attacks

High Availability

- Minimize downtime with read mode for MariaDB/MySQL master-slave clusters

The release notes for MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 can be found [here](https://staging-mdb.com/kb/en/mariadb-enterprise/mariadb-maxscale/mariadb-maxscale-200-release-notes/) and the list of bugs fixed can be found in the release notes. Binaries for MaxScale 2.0 Beta are available for download [here](https://staging-mdb.com/my_portal/download/maxscale/2.0).

MaxScale documentation can be found in our [Knowledge Base](https://staging-mdb.com/kb/en/mariadb-enterprise/mariadb-maxscale/).

In case you want to build the binaries yourself, the source can be found on GitHub, tagged with [maxscale-2.0.0](https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/tree/maxscale-2.0.0).