Software update: MariaDB 10.0.38

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 10.0.38. 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 10.0.38 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. Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable changes

• With this maintenance release, MariaDB 10.0 will reach the end of its maintenance period. Generally speaking this means that this will likely be the final release of the 10.0 series of MariaDB
• InnoDB updated to 5.6.43
• Performance Schedule updated to 5.6.43
• XtraDB updated to 5.6.42-84.2
• TokuDB updated to 5.6.42-84.2
• Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2019-2537
  • CVE-2019-2529

changelog
For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.0.38, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.