MariaDB Enterprise Server Q1 2025 Maintenance Releases with Backported Features

Posted on March 19, 2025 by
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New maintenance releases for MariaDB Enterprise Server 11.4.5-3, 10.6.21-17, and 10.5.28-22 are now available. These releases include new backported features.

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Backported Features in MariaDB 11.4.5-3

The vector search capability has now been added to the MariaDB Enterprise Server 11.4 release. The linked blog post explains the idea of the new vector search feature in detail. See the Release Notes for more details about the new functionality, including a new data type, conversion and comparison functions.

Other Notable Release Updates

MariaDB Enterprise Server 11.4.5-3
  • MariaDB Enterprise Server 11.4.5-3 Release Notes
  • Notable Changes:
    • Starting with this release we generate Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) JSON files provided in the downloads archive, which can be reached from the “All Files” link on the MariaDB Enterprise Server downloads page under the SBOM folder
    • New parameter --skip-freed-pages for Innochecksum. Use this parameter to not get freed undo logs reported as existing undo log pages.
    • Galera protocol versions are now shown by show status – change available with installation of galera library 26.4.21+
    • MariaDB now supports MySQL 8.0 binlog events, including PARTIAL_UPDATE_ROWS_EVENT, TRANSACTION_PAYLOAD_EVENT, and HEARTBEAT_LOG_EVENT_V2.
    • InnoDB deadlock output query length increased to improve visibility of deadlocked statements
    • This release incorporates Galera library version 26.4.21
    • This release incorporates MariaDB ColumnStore storage engine version 23.10.3
MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.6.21-17
  • MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.6.21-17 Release Notes
  • Notable Changes:
    • Starting with this release we generate Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) JSON files provided in the downloads archive, which can be reached from the “All Files” link on the MariaDB Enterprise Server downloads page under the SBOM folder
    • New parameter --skip-freed-pages for Innochecksum. Use this parameter to not get freed undo logs reported as existing undo log pages.
    • Galera protocol versions are now shown by show status – change available with installation of galera library 26.4.21+
    • MariaDB now supports MySQL 8.0 binlog events, including PARTIAL_UPDATE_ROWS_EVENT, TRANSACTION_PAYLOAD_EVENT, and HEARTBEAT_LOG_EVENT_V2.
    • InnoDB deadlock output query length increased to improve visibility of deadlocked statements
    • This release incorporates Galera library version 26.4.21
    • This release incorporates MariaDB ColumnStore storage engine version 23.10.3
MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5.28-22

Why MariaDB Enterprise Server

MariaDB Enterprise Server is an enhanced, hardened and secured version of MariaDB Community Server that delivers enterprise reliability, stability and long-term support as well as greater operational efficiency when it comes to managing large database deployments for business and mission critical applications. MariaDB Enterprise Server offers additional features needed for production workloads that are not available in the community edition, such as Enterprise Audit and Enterprise Backup, and also backports certain enterprise features to older versions so customers can take advantage of critical fixes and features immediately instead of having to upgrade to the newest version.

Being able to backport features from newer release series to older versions is a key advantage of MariaDB Enterprise Server. Quality assurance and internal processes do not always allow customers to upgrade production environments to the newest and greatest release series, although some of the new features would be of value. MariaDB Enterprise Server can help in this case, as we can backport highly requested features to existing versions in cases where we can assure that a backported feature does not decrease the stability of that release series of MariaDB Enterprise Server.

Download MariaDB Enterprise Server

MariaDB customers can download MariaDB Enterprise Server versions at staging-mdb.com/downloads/enterprise.