{"id":2840,"date":"2013-12-27T02:43:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T07:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2013-12-27T02:43:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T07:43:48","slug":"mariadb-distributions-update-dec-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/12\/27\/mariadb-distributions-update-dec-2013","title":{"rendered":"MariaDB &#038; distributions update, Dec 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few things to note recently, amongst MariaDB in distributions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Ubuntu-14-04-LTS-Will-Keep-MySQL-5-5-Despite-MariaDB-Success-403050.shtml\">Ubuntu keeps MySQL 5.5 despite MariaDB&#8217;s success<\/a>. There&#8217;s a lot of reasons for this, but remember the key takeaway here is MySQL 5.5 &amp; the fact that MariaDB wasn&#8217;t even in Debian yet when the decision was made.<\/li>\n<li>MariaDB is <strong>now<\/strong>\u00a0inside of Debian\/sid &#8211; check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/search?keywords=mariadb\">packages<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-beta-arrives-with-mariadb-as-its-default-database-7000024194\/\">RHEL 7 comes with MariaDB 5.5 as a default<\/a>; this is a good thing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now, from a distribution standpoint, we&#8217;re looking at starting to ship 10.0 as well. Distro maintainers don&#8217;t want one-way streets (i.e. an upgrade to MariaDB prevents you from going back to MySQL). This is something we have to deal with as more start looking at MySQL 5.6 &amp; MariaDB 10 (think <a href=\"https:\/\/mariadb.com\/kb\/en\/temporal-literals\/\">temporal literals<\/a> as an example).<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20MariaDB%20%26%20distributions%20update%2C%20Dec%202013&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F12%2F27%2Fmariadb-distributions-update-dec-2013&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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There&#8217;s a lot of reasons for this, but remember the key takeaway here is MySQL 5.5 &amp; the fact that MariaDB wasn&#8217;t even in Debian yet when the decision was made. MariaDB is now\u00a0inside of Debian\/sid &#8211; check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20MariaDB%20%26%20distributions%20update%2C%20Dec%202013&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F12%2F27%2Fmariadb-distributions-update-dec-2013&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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There is a community growing, and MariaDB is a community project, not necessarily a Monty Program Ab baby (and we're clear on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MariaDB&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2938,"url":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/06\/11\/rhel7-now-with-mariadb","url_meta":{"origin":2840,"position":1},"title":"RHEL7 now with MariaDB","date":"11\/6\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations to the entire team at Red Hat, for the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL7). The release notes have something important, under Web Servers & Services: MariaDB 5.5 MariaDB is the default implementation of MySQL in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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The MariaDB Server original goals were to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Distributions&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2810,"url":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/10\/05\/mariadb-in-debian-unstable","url_meta":{"origin":2840,"position":3},"title":"MariaDB in Debian unstable","date":"5\/10\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a Debian\u00a0MariaDB plan\u00a0from the MySQL package team. There is good news as on September 30 2013, the upload to Debian unstable is complete with MariaDB 5.5 (5.5.32). It's now only a matter of time before this becomes available in Debian.\u00a0 Its great to see the work of\u00a0Otto Kek\u00c3\u00a4l\u00c3\u00a4inen\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MariaDB&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3140,"url":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2015\/12\/12\/mariadb-server-gas-supported-for-5-years","url_meta":{"origin":2840,"position":4},"title":"MariaDB Server GA&#8217;s supported for 5 years","date":"12\/12\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There was some discussion a while back to maybe make MariaDB Server\u00a0follow the Ubuntu release model, i.e. having a Long Term Release (LTS) and then having a few regular fast releases with a shorter support cycle. However its good to note that the decision now going forward is to support\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MariaDB&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3131,"url":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2015\/11\/10\/ubuntu-online-summit-mysql-variants-in-16-04","url_meta":{"origin":2840,"position":5},"title":"Ubuntu Online Summit: MySQL &#038; Variants in 16.04","date":"10\/11\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I personally have always enjoyed the Ubuntu Developer Summits (UDS), but nowadays they have been converted to the Ubuntu Online Summits (UOS). 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