Software update: MariaDB 10.1.34

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 10.1.34 in the previous stable branch with the following announcement:

MariaDB 10.1.34 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 10.1.34 is a Stable (GA) release.

Notable Changes

• MDEV-14589 InnoDB should not lock a delete-marked record
• MDEV-16283 ALTER TABLE…DISCARD TABLESPACE still takes long on a large buffer pool
• MDEV-15824 innodb_defragment=ON trumps innodb_optimize_fulltext_only=ON in OPTIMIZE TABLE
• MDEV-16124 fil_rename_tablespace() times out and crashes server during table-rebuilding ALTER TABLE
• MDEV-16416 Crash on IMPORT TABLESPACE of a ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED table
• MDEV-16456 InnoDB error “returned OS error 71” complains about wrong path
• MDEV-13103 Deal with page_compressed page corruption
• MDEV-15611 Due to the failure of foreign key detection, Galera slave node killed himself.
• As per the MariaDB Deprecation Policy, this will be the last release of MariaDB 10.1 for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful

changelog

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.1.34, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.