Software update: MariaDB 10.1.38

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 10.1.38. The first stable from the 10.1.x branch dates from October 2015 and has received support for five years. The abbreviated announcement of this release is as follows:

MariaDB 10.1.38 Release Notes

MariaDB 10.1 is a 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 10.1.38 is a Stable (GA) release.

Notable Changes

• MDEV-17475: Maximum value of table_definition_cache is now 2097152
• MDEV-13671: InnoDB should use case-insensitive column name comparisons like the rest of the server
• ALTER TABLE fixes: MDEV-17230, MDEV-16499, MDEV-17904, MDEV-17833, MDEV-17470, MDEV-18237, MDEV-18016
• Improvements to InnoDB page checksum, recovery, and Mariabackup: MDEV-17957, MDEV-12112, MDEV-18025, MDEV-18279, MDEV-18183
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  • MDEV-15740: Galera durability fix
  • New configuration variable wsrep_certification_rules, used for controlling whether to use new/optimized (–wsrep_certification_rules=optimized) certification rules or the old/classic ones (–wsrep_certification_rules=strict). Setting the variable to strict can cause more certification failures.
• Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2019-2537
  • CVE-2019-2529

changelog
For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.1.38, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.