MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: BLOB, TEXT, JSON and GEOMETRY Support in the HEAP Engine
Some contributions improve MariaDB Server by adding new capabilities.
Some go further: they start from a concrete production problem with an existing feature, not a bug, but a design limitation, solve it upstream, and leave the whole ecosystem better off. …
MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Federico Razzoli
Interview with Federico Razzoli, nominated in the Community Leadership category.
The MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program celebrates the people and organizations who help make the MariaDB ecosystem stronger, more open, and more useful for everyone. …
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TAF 3.0 — Results Backend With Automated Performance Change Detection
TAF 3.0 introduces the new TAF Results Backend, a structured results database and parser pipeline that delivers fully automated performance change detection. …
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MariaDB Server Plugins: disabled functions
During the last MariaDB Foundation Board Meeting (24 June 2026), Barry shared how it can be difficult to deploy an upgrade immediately and that they sometimes have to wait for one that fixes security bugs. …
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MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: DENY / Negative Grants
MariaDB 13.1 Preview is full of nice things.
Some are immediately visible to developers, like the new JSON operators. Some are very useful to DBAs, such as configuration validation. …
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