Hello! MariaDB 10.5 release 1:10.5.8-3 finally entered Debian testing today[1]. It has been in unstable since early September, and the work on the successor of 10.3 in Debian started already in January (with 10.4 which then turned into 10.5 as upstream released it this spring).
This also means that MariaDB 10.3 will be removed (or the remaining traces of it to be exact) in the following weeks. MariaDB 10.5 has a rather massive 45 step CI pipeline just for Debian[2] and we hope the number of bugs is small, but still it is always expected that in a major upgrade like 10.3 -> 10.5 users might experience some issues. If you encounter issues 1) file a high quality bug report at bugs.debian.org, and consider filing one in parallel at upstream at jira.mariadb.org if the issue does not seem to be packaging related 2) send a merge request on Salsa following guidelines at https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL/patches MariaDB in Debian is quite heavily on my shoulders right now. I would be very glad to see more merge requests, even small ones are nice and show that people contribute. Some git stats for the post-10.3 cycle in Debian: git summary 7bf99ca66..HEAD project : mariadb-10.5 commits : 197 authors : 187 Otto Kekäläinen 94.9% 2 Christian Göttsche 1.0% 2 Helmut Grohne 1.0% 1 Aurelien Jarno 0.5% 1 Bastian Germann 0.5% 1 Christian Ehrhardt 0.5% 1 Daniel Black 0.5% 1 Faustin Lammler 0.5% 1 Miroslav Kure 0.5% Thanks to all contributors! [3] Also a big thanks those who sent patches as files and very helpful hints, in particular jrtc27 and the porter folks! [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mariadb-10.5 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.5/-/pipelines/200608 [3] https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.5/-/graphs/master
