MariaDB 10.2.6 Release Notes
MariaDB 10.2 is the current stable series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.1 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL 5.6 and 5.7. MariaDB 10.2.6 is a Stable (GA) release.
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Notable Changes
This is the first stable release in the MariaDB 10.2 series. As such, please refer to the What is MariaDB 10.2? page for details on all of the new features.
MyRocks alpha storage engine added (MDEV-9658)
Window functions have been introduced.
Recursive Common Table Expressions (MDEV-9864)
AWS Key Management plugin added for Windows, CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora packages
Update InnoDB to 5.7.18 (MDEV-11751)
Galera wsrep library updated to 25.3.20
Packages for Ubuntu 17.04 "zesty" added
MDEV-10431: The --add-drop-trigger option has been added to mysqldump
MDEV-12472: Ignore XtraDB-specific parameters in InnoDB, warning that they are ignored
MDEV-12253, MDEV-12602: Numerous Encryption fixes
MDEV-11336: Disabled defragmentation
MDEV-10332: Added support for OpenSSL 1.1 and LibreSSL
innodb_deadlock_detect and innodb_stats_include_delete_marked variables introduced
Notes
Percona XtraBackup (as of 2.4) will not work with MariaDB 10.2 (and MariaDB 10.1) compression. However, MariaDB's fork, MariaDB Backup, will work with compression. It will be included in a future version of MariaDB 10.2.
Changelog
For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.2.6, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-1026-changelog/