Software Update: MariaDB 10.3.11

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 10.3.11. The first stable from the 10.3.x branch dates from May 2018 and has been supported for five years. The abbreviated announcement of this release is as follows:

MariaDB 10.3.11 Release Notes

MariaDB 10.3 is an evolution of MariaDB 10.2 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL. MariaDB 10.3.11 is a Stable (GA) release. Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable changes of this release include:

• mysqldump now uses utf8mb4 as a default character set, instead of utf8.
• sql_safe_updates can now be set as a command-line and my.cnf option.
• Fixed crash on upgrade from MariaDB 10.1 or earlier: MDEV-12023
• MDEV-17073 – INSERT…ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE is now less deadlock-prone
• MDEV-17289 – Multi-pass recovery fails to apply some redo log records
• MDEV-17541 – KILL QUERY during lock wait in FOREIGN KEY check no longer causes hang
• MDEV-17531 – Fix crash in RENAME TABLE with FOREIGN KEY and FULLTEXT INDEX
• Spatial index fixes: MDEV-17545, MDEV-17546
• Virtual column fixes: MDEV-17215, MDEV-17548
• Maria backup fixes:
  • MDEV-13564 – TRUNCATE TABLE now works with Mariabackup
  • MDEV-17433 – Allow InnoDB start up with empty ib_logfile0 from mariabackup –prepare
• Packages for Fedora 29 and Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic have been added in this release
• As per the MariaDB Deprecation Policy, this will be the last release of MariaDB 10.3 for Fedora 27
• Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2018-3282
  • CVE-2016-9843
  • CVE-2018-3174
  • CVE-2018-3143
  • CVE-2018-3156
  • CVE-2018-3251
  • CVE-2018-3185
  • CVE-2018-3277
  • CVE-2018-3162
  • CVE-2018-3173
  • CVE-2018-3200
  • CVE-2018-3284