Software update: MariaDB 10.1.33

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 10.1.33 in the previous stable branch with the following announcement:

MariaDB 10.1.33 Release Notes

MariaDB 10.1 is the previous stable series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.0 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL 5.6 and 5.7. MariaDB 10.1.33 is a Stable (GA) release.

Notable Changes

• PCRE updated to 8.42
• The embedded server library now supports SSL when connecting to remote servers.
• ALTER TABLE fixes: MDEV-14693, MDEV-16080, MDEV-15937
• encryption fixes: MDEV-15937, MDEV-16092, MDEV-15752, MDEV-15566
• systemd and shutdown fixes: MDEV-14705
• As per the MariaDB Deprecation Policy, this will be the last release of MariaDB 10.1 for Debian 7 Wheezy
• In this release experimental Ubuntu 18.04 “bionic” packages are present in the MariaDB 10.1 repository. However, because Ubuntu includes MariaDB 10.1 in its main repositories we recommend using the Ubuntu provided MariaDB 10.1 packages for general use.

Security Fixes

Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:

• CVE-2018-2782
• CVE-2018-2784
• CVE-2018-2787
• CVE-2018-2766
• CVE-2018-2755
• CVE-2018-2819
• CVE-2018-2817
• CVE-2018-2761
• CVE-2018-2781
• CVE-2018-2771
• CVE-2018-2813