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This page collects the most important things that are happening at Monty Program Ab.
For the latest blog posts from the developers, visit http://planetmariadb.org.
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Upcoming events
- MariaDB will be present at the 2010 O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo.
- Monty will be on the keynote for the 3rd International Conference on Objects and Databases 2010 (ICOODB), on September 28-30, 2010
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March 2010
- Kristian Nielsen gave a talk on MariaDB on March 5 2010 at Open Source Days 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark. The slides from the talk are available.
February 2010
- MariaDB 5.1.42, first stable (GA) version, released, February 1.
- Kristian Nielsen and Sergey Petrunya had a MariaDB stand at FOSDEM, February 6-7, 2010, together with Vladimir Kolesnikov from PBXT. Some slides from the talks given there are available.
January 2010
- MariaDB 5.1.41-rc released.
- MySQL 5.1.42 and XtraDB 9 merged into MariaDB and will be in the next release.
December 2009
- Kristian presented MariaDB at FLUG (Funen's Linux User Group), December 3.
November 2009
- Monty attended and spoke at Forum PHP Paris 2009, November 12-13 in Paris.
- MariaDB 5.1.39 was released on November 15.
- Kurt and Monty attended and spoke at the Ubuntu Developer's Summit, November 16-20.
October 2009
- The FederatedX storage engine was pushed into MariaDB 5.1. This replaced the old, not maintained Federated storage engine.
- MariaDB 5.1.38 Beta was released on 29 Oct.
- http://planetMariaDB.org created
- Kurt gave the keynote address at the Florida Linux Show on 24 Oct.
- Added the userstat' patch to MariaDB 5.2. The patch was partly rewritten to be faster and more general.
September 2009
- Added extended statistics to the slow query log and options to more precisely define what to log. (Based on the microslow patch from Percona)
- Added table elimination optimization.
- Kristian presented MariaDB at BSDDK, September 30.
August 2009
- All company meeting in Majorca (August 19-24'th)
- Percona XtraDB now replaces InnoDB in the MariaDB 5.1 tree.
- Our Builbot now has a Cross Reference facility that allows to search in previous (or running) test runs for test failures using various criterias.
July 2009
- Monty, Kurt, Henrik, Igor, and Ethan attended OSCon July 20-24.
- Monty was interviewed by Dr. Dobb's Journal. You can read the interview here.
- Monty, Kurt, and Henrik were at the Community Leadership Summit unconference July 18-19. A session regarding the future of MySQL was held, and you can watch a video of the proceedings.
- We have 2 new contractors starting first of July and now have 15 people working for Monty Program Ab. (The reason we have a lot of contractors is because in countries where we don't have a legal entity, we can only hire contractors. We do however treat contractors with exactly the same rules as ordinary employees.)
- Pushed a performance improving patch which eliminates some unneeded character set conversions. Overall speed improvement is 1-5% (according to sql-bench) but may be higher for large result sets with all characters between 0x00-0x7f.
- Our Buildbot at http://buildbot.askmonty.org/buildbot/ now understands the output of mysql-test-run.pl, so it can show test failures and server error log files, and give better completion time estimates. This should greatly help when debugging test failures. The patches for the Buildbot code have been merged upstream, and will be in the next Buildbot release.
June 2009
- Kurt von Finck gave a keynote presentation about the Hacking Business Model at the Open Source Bridge conference in Portland, Oregon on June 17. You can watch the keynote at blip.tv.
- Extended MariaDB to be able to handle 32 (up from 16) key segments. The MyISAM and Maria storage engines were updated to handle this.
May 2009
- Started contracted work on table elimination (optimizer enhancement)
- The Open Database Alliance is founded. You can read about it at Monty's blog or in an interview with Kurt Von Finck.
- The latest MySQL 5.1 sources were merged into the MariaDB-5.1 source repository, including the mysql-5.1.34 release. After some bug fixing, the 5.1 Buildbot page is now (mostly) green again.
- Our enhancements for bzr support in Buildbot have been merged upstream and are available in the Buildbot git repository (and will be included in the upcoming 0.7.11 release). Our enhancements to worklog are available from the Lauchpad hosting page.
April 2009
- Kurt was interviewed by Ken Hess for the Frugal Tech Show. The podcast is available here for listening or here for download.
- Monty was at LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, WA on April 25-26. He held a presentation called AskMonty & Black Vodka - Be Prepared, which did indeed include consuming some black vodka.
- Monty blogged about Oracle acquiring MySQL.
- Monty & Kurt von Finck were at the MySQL conference in Santa Clara on April 20-23. Monty held 2 Maria talks and was part of 2 panels with Percona.
- Tarballs of source and binaries for MariaDB have been made available on the MariaDB download page.
- The Valgrind build of mariadb-5.1 now passes all tests in our Buildbot setup.
- The PBXT storage engine has been pushed into MariaDB 1.5
March 2009
- We installed our first instance of buildbot (still a couple of weeks of work to get this to work properly). We will use buildbot to test all pushes to the source code and also to do monthly binaries of MariaDB.
- Added and extended pool-of-threads from MySQL 6.0 to MariaDB.
- Worklog added to hold and help us plan all development tasks we are working and should consider working it. Worklog allows also anyone to vote and comment upon tasks. One can offer to pay to get an existing task completed and suggest new tasks one would like to see added to MariaDB.
February 2009
- A lot of work on the askmonty.org web site.
- Added and extended The hacking business model
- Maria storage engine made beta
- MariaDB, the MySQL server with the Maria storage engine, moved to Launchpad
- Monty Program Ab created and askmonty.org launched
