Manual:MariaDB 5.2 Release Notes

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See Also:MariaDB 5.1 Reference Manual, MariaDB 5.3 Reference Manual

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About MariaDB 5.2

MariaDB 5.2 includes several patches, fixes, and enhancements that for one reason or another were not able to be added to the MariaDB 5.1 series. These include:

• User statistics patch ^{from Percona}
• Virtual columns
• A mysqlbinlog option to change the used database. ^MWL:36
• Maria storage engine group commit.
• A backport of libservices from MySQL 6.0. ^MWL:98
• Enhancements for plugin authors, including:
  • Pluggable Authentication. ^MWL:101
  • Extensions to CREATE TABLE. ^MWL:43
• Segmented Key Cache for MyISAM. ^MWL:85
• The OQGRAPH storage engine.
• The Sphinx storage engine.
• Various bug and stability fixes.

More information on each individual MariaDB 5.2 release can be found in the Release Notes for each release, linked to below. See also the MariaDB 5.2 Changelog page for the changelogs for each 5.2 release.

See the MariaDB versus MySQL page for a high-level overview of the differences between MariaDB and MySQL.

MariaDB 5.2.x Release Notes

The release notes for the various individual MariaDB 5.2 releases are listed here in reverse chronological order (newest on top).

• MariaDB 5.2.2 Release Notes — in development
• MariaDB 5.2.1-beta Release Notes (18 Jun 2010)
• MariaDB 5.2.0-beta Release Notes (10 Apr 2010)

Planned features for MariaDB 5.2

No major new features are planned for MariaDB 5.2. Future versions of 5.2 will only focus on stability improvements and bug fixes.