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HIGH NEW THIS WEEK ACT BY 21 OCT 2026 MariaDB Foundation · 31 Oct 2026

Still on MariaDB 10.6? Why your next upgrade is a security decision

Urges MariaDB 10.6 users to plan upgrades because the version will lose security support, referencing recent PHP RCE flaws as context for timely patching.
MEDIUM MariaDB Foundation · 14 Oct 2026

MariaDB Foundation: Reproducing and Validating MDEV-37992 with TAF

Regression MDEV-37992 exposed under specific LRU and buffer-pool conditions with memory-resident workloads is reproduced across MariaDB 11.8, 12.3, and 13.1 and fixed.

Deprecations 1

MEDIUM ACT BY 31 DEC 2026 endoflife.date · 2 Oct 2026

MariaDB 13.0 reaches end of life on 2026-12-31

MariaDB 13.0 reaches end of life on 2026-12-31, as listed by endoflife.date.

Releases 5

HIGH NEW THIS WEEK MariaDB Foundation · 27 Oct 2026

MariaDB 11.8 fixes InnoDB in-memory performance regression from 10.5

InnoDB buffer pool LRU clock began ticking too early in 10.5, adding overhead to in-memory workloads. MariaDB 11.8 restores the original clock semantics and delivers up to 3× throughput gains on such workloads.
INFO MariaDB Foundation · 7 Oct 2026

Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively

Laravel 13 integrates MariaDB Vector directly, enabling semantic search in Laravel apps without extra databases or services.
INFO MariaDB Foundation · 3 Oct 2026

MariaDB Foundation’s Test Automation Framework (TAF) 4.0 Release

TAF 4.0 is the largest update since launch, redesigning workload organization, execution, and reporting for MariaDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
INFO MariaDB Foundation · 3 Oct 2026

MariaDB 13.0 ships DuckDB storage engine

MariaDB 13.0 is stable since 17 September and includes the DuckDB storage engine. A Magento benchmark ran 63 times faster after tables were moved to DuckDB.
INFO AWS What's New · 2 Oct 2026

Amazon RDS now supports AMD-based M8a instances

Amazon RDS adds M8a database instances powered by 5th-gen AMD EPYC processors for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB workloads.

News and tools 6

INFO NEW THIS WEEK MariaDB Foundation · 1 Nov 2026

MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – 1 November 2026

Highlights InnoDB performance gains, FOSDEM 2027 devroom call, parallel queries, first India meetup, and 17 years of MariaDB Server.
INFO NEW THIS WEEK MariaDB Foundation · 1 Nov 2026

What MariaDB’s plugin API can carry: the HyperLogLog case

Author demonstrates that a full analytic feature, including a column type, aggregates, and scalar functions, can be implemented outside the MariaDB server core using a plugin.
INFO NEW THIS WEEK MariaDB Foundation · 28 Oct 2026

Build an "ask the docs" app with Laravel 13 and MariaDB Vector

Tutorial shows how to use Laravel 13 native MariaDB Vector support to build a simple RAG-style documentation chatbot.
INFO MariaDB Foundation · 17 Oct 2026

MariaDB Foundation: Exploring TidesDB Performance with TAF

TidesDB storage engine is now pluggable in MariaDB via the TideSQL plugin, and TAF provides a way to run reproducible workloads against it.
INFO MariaDB Foundation · 8 Oct 2026

Building a Public Performance Change Detection Library for MariaDB

MariaDB is creating an open performance change detection library so benchmarking knowledge and regression detection become public instead of staying inside private teams.
INFO MariaDB Foundation · 5 Oct 2026

Migrating a 500 GB Production MariaDB Database from Amazon RDS to EC2

Detailed walk-through of moving a 500 GB MariaDB database from Amazon RDS to EC2 while preserving a rollback path.

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