mariadb-10.0.6

[Igor Živković]

​https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-1006-release-notes/

[Fernando de Oliveira]

Replying to izivkov:

​https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-1006-release-notes/

I went to read the releases notes at this address, and was surprised: "MariaDB 10.0 is the current development".

Then went to

​https://downloads.mariadb.org/

and found:

MariaDB 5.5 is the current stable (GA) release of MariaDB. It is MariaDB 5.3 + MySQL 5.5.
...
MariaDB 10.0 is the development version of MariaDB.

and "MariaDB 5.5.34 now available 21 Nov 2013".

At "Distributions which Include MariaDB":

​https://mariadb.com/kb/en/distributions-which-include-mariadb/

All seem to be using 5.5, including Arch Linux and Fedora.

I may have missed some discussion, but why have we chosen the beta version, instead of the stable one? Would it be perhaps because we are making a transition from MySQL and only later our packages will start replacing it, and then MariaDB 10.0 will already be stable?

[Igor Živković]

I've proposed version 10 in ​#4262.

What isn't mentioned there is that version 10 includes backported features from MySQL 5.6 and entirely new features not found anywhere else. Despite being officially in beta status (alpha two releases ago), I personally didn't have any problems with it and I've been using it on my Debian production servers for over a year.

[Fernando de Oliveira]

Thanks. As I wrote, I could have missed and I had. You told everything there, including your preference for the development version 10.

Sorry for the noise.

[bdubbs@…]

I have no objection to version 10, but I think a note about the versions would be helpful to users, especially if the build instructions are basically the same.

-- Bruce

[Igor Živković]

Fixed at revision 12278.

[bdubbs@…]

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