Software update: MariaDB 10.0.36

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 10.0.36. The first stable from the 10.0.x branch dates from March 2014 and has been supported for five years. The abbreviated announcement of this release is as follows:

MariaDB 10.0.36 Release Notes

MariaDB 10.0 is a previous stable series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 5.5 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL 5.6. This is a Stable (GA) release.

Notable changes

• ALTER TABLE:
  • Bug #25928471: ONLINE ALTER AND CONCURRENT DELETE ON TABLE WITH MANY TEXT COLUMNS CAUSES CRASH
  • MDEV-14693 XA: Assertion `!clust_index->online_log’ failed in rollback_inplace_alter_table
  • MDEV-16119 InnoDB lock->index refers to a freed object after failed ADD INDEX
  • MDEV-16124 fil_rename_tablespace() times out and crashes server during table-rebuilding ALTER TABLE
  • MDEV-15953 Alter InnoDB Partitioned Table Moves Files (which were originally not in the datadir) to the datadir
  • MDEV-16851 On schema mismatch in IMPORT TABLESPACE, display ROW_FORMAT in clear text
• Full text search:
  • Bug #27041445 SERVER ABORTS IF FTS_DOC_ID EXCEEDS FTS_DOC_ID_MAX_STEP
  • Bug #26334149 – MYSQL CRASHES WHEN FULL TEXT INDEXES IBD FILES ARE ORPHANED DUE TO RENAME TABLE
  • Bug #27326796 – MYSQL CRASH WITH INNODB ASSERTION FAILURE IN FILE PARS0PARS.CC
  • MDEV-16855 Fix fts_sync_synchronization in InnoDB
• MDEV-16267 Wrong INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE.TABLE_NAME
• MDEV-16456 InnoDB error “returned OS error 71” complains about wrong path
• MDEV-16596 : Windows – redo log does not work on native 4K sector disks
• MDEV-16515 (also fixes some adaptive hash index corruption that can cause data corruption)
• Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2018-3064
  • CVE-2018-3063
  • CVE-2018-3058
  • CVE-2018-3066

changelog
For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.0.36, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog†