MariaDB Extended maintenance period for MariaDB 5.5

As the maintenance policy of the MariaDB Foundation states, we are committed to maintaining each release for 5 years. As MariaDB 5.5 was announced for General Availability in 2012, the five year mark will soon be passed. However, since MariaDB 5.5 is widely used in many major Linux distributions in production use at the moment, the Foundation has decided to extend the maintenance period for MariaDB 5.5 to the year 2020.

All Linux distributions currently including MariaDB 5.5 will thus continue to have security updates available for at least until 2020.

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Ah that's good news - some of my servers/work loads are still on MariaDB 5.5 including this forum

 

5.5 has faster single threaded performance than 5.6, 5.7, 10.0, 10.2 varieties and since this forum is on low cpu thread count = 4 isn't going to make much difference unless you running more multi-threaded/concurrent mysql loads

New versions quest for better multi-core/threaded performance comes at a cost to single threaded performance regressions

 

Yeah it doesn't but not using it as using Elasticsearch with Enhanced Search Addon for Xenforo enhanced search here