MariaDB 10.6.25 Release Notes

MariaDB 10.6.25 is a Stable (GA) release of MariaDB Community Server 10.6, released on 2026-02-04

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Release date: 4 Feb 2026

MariaDB 10.6 is a current long-term series of MariaDB, maintained until July 2026. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.5 with several entirely new features.

MariaDB 10.6.25 is a Stable (GA) release.

For an overview of MariaDB 10.6 see the MariaDB 10.6 Changes & Improvements page.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable Items

Storage Engines

InnoDB

• innodb_undo_log_truncate=ON leads to out-of-bounds write (MDEV-37042)

• Bogus [ERROR] InnoDB: Compressed page checksum mismatch could be reported for ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED tables. (MDEV-37306)

• When innodb_buffer_pool_size is not large enough to buffer all log records during crash recovery, InnoDB may fail to recover a page from the doublewrite buffer. (MDEV-37558)

• InnoDB could crash during a workload that is frequently rebuilding or dropping tables by executing statements such as TRUNCATE TABLE, OPTIMIZE TABLE, or DROP TABLE. (MDEV-37755)

• If the server was killed during an operation that creates a .ibd file, such as TRUNCATE TABLE, it could fail to recover. (MDEV-38026)

• MariaBackup fails during rollback of inplace FTS alter table (MDEV-38041)

• Secondary indexes could be corrupted for InnoDB tables that contain indexed virtual columns. (MDEV-38140)

• Server hang during concurrent set innodb_encryption_threads (MDEV-38271)

Aria

• Fixed crash in Aria when doing a sub transaction like reading an entry from the proc table. (MDEV-23132)

Spider

• Spider could crash when loop detection variables were artificially manipulated. (MDEV-38368)

Authentication and Privilege System

• INSERT ... RETURNING exposes columns for which the user lacks SELECT privilege (MDEV-37950)

Character Sets

• ASCII strings will be sent to client connections slightly faster. (MDEV-21816)

• On IA-32 and AMD64 depending on the build options, the server could crash due to an unaligned access when sending data to a client connection. (MDEV-37148)

Data Definition - Create Table

• If the server was killed during an operation that creates a .ibd file, such as TRUNCATE TABLE, it could fail to recover. (MDEV-37994)

Full-text Search

• Server crash upon moving InnoDB table with fulltext index between databases (MDEV-31892)

• Memory leak in innodb.import_hidden_fts_debug (MDEV-38391)

Galera

• Galera updated to 26.4.25

  • NOTE: Includes increasing the GCS protocol version, which prevents downgrades of individual nodes in the cluster as soon as all nodes have been updated

• Long blob prefix keys could cause a crash in galera. (MDEV-38374)

GIS

• Malformed spatial data could've caused a crash inside InnoDB (MDEV-38372)

Optimizer

• We are trying to push aggregate into WHERE (MDEV-38487)

Optimizer - Window functions

• ref_ptrs exhaust on multiple ORDER by func from winfunc (MDEV-32317)

Packaging

• ed25519 client authentication plugin would fail to load for anything but mariadb client utility. This has been fixed now. (MDEV-37527)

Protocol

• Auth Switch with Long Password Corrupts Database Name (MDEV-38431)

Replication

• Race of rolling back and committing transaction to binlog (MDEV-37541)

• Presence of Spider disables "external" XA commit (MDEV-37972)

Scripts & Clients

• There was a short gap when mariadb-secure-installation temporary files were potentially openable/readable by an unprivileged user. These files may contain database root password. (MDEV-28823)

• Missing Null terminator in the definition of mysqldump's --system typelib (MDEV-38642)

Changelog

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.6.25, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.

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