# MariaDB 11.4.4 Release Notes

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**Release date:** 1 Nov 2024

[MariaDB 11.4](https://gitbook-v2-q3lwp8faq-gitbook.vercel.app/url/mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/mariadb-11-4-series/what-is-mariadb-114) is the current long-term series of MariaDB and will be maintained until May 2029. It is an evolution of [MariaDB 11.3](https://gitbook-v2-q3lwp8faq-gitbook.vercel.app/url/mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/release-notes-mariadb-11-3-rolling-releases/what-is-mariadb-113) with several entirely new features.

[MariaDB 11.4.4](https://gitbook-v2-q3lwp8faq-gitbook.vercel.app/url/mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/mariadb-11-4-series/mariadb-11-4-4-release-notes) is a [***Stable (GA)***](https://gitbook-v2-q3lwp8faq-gitbook.vercel.app/url/mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/about/release-criteria) release.

**For an overview of** [**MariaDB 11.4**](https://gitbook-v2-q3lwp8faq-gitbook.vercel.app/url/mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/mariadb-11-4-series/what-is-mariadb-114) **see the** [**What is MariaDB 11.4?**](https://gitbook-v2-q3lwp8faq-gitbook.vercel.app/url/mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/mariadb-11-4-series/what-is-mariadb-114) **page.**

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

## Notable Items

### Storage Engines

#### InnoDB

* Fix attempt to read outside the bounds of the file: ./ibdata1 ([MDEV-34453](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34453))
* Fix MariaDB crash with SIGILL because the OS does not support AVX512 ([MDEV-34565](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34565))
* Fix deadlock caused by lock\_rec\_unlock\_unmodified() ([MDEV-34690](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34690))
* Fix duplicate key error in table 'mysql.innodb\_table\_stats' ([MDEV-34207](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34207))
* Fix possible adaptive hash index corruption with ALTER TABLE...IMPORT TABLESPACE and FULLTEXT SEARCH ([MDEV-35059](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-35059))
* XA prepare now correctly releases unmodified records in non-blocking mode ([MDEV-34466](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34466))
* Fix contention between secondary index UPDATE and purge due to large innodb\_purge\_batch\_size ([MDEV-34515](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34515))
  * New default of `127` for [innodb\_purge\_batch\_size](https://app.gitbook.com/s/SsmexDFPv2xG2OTyO5yV/server-usage/storage-engines/innodb/innodb-system-variables#innodb_purge_batch_size) (previously `1000`).
* Fix redundant page lookups that hurt performance ([MDEV-34791](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34791))
* Implement [innodb\_log\_file\_mmap](https://app.gitbook.com/s/SsmexDFPv2xG2OTyO5yV/server-usage/storage-engines/innodb/innodb-system-variables#innodb_log_file_mmap) on 64-bit systems for improving ib\_logfile0 reads ([MDEV-34062](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34062))

#### [Spider](https://app.gitbook.com/s/SsmexDFPv2xG2OTyO5yV/server-usage/storage-engines/spider)

* Fix server crash when calling [spider UDF](https://app.gitbook.com/s/SsmexDFPv2xG2OTyO5yV/server-usage/storage-engines/spider/spider-functions) after [aria\_encrypt\_tables](https://app.gitbook.com/s/SsmexDFPv2xG2OTyO5yV/server-usage/storage-engines/aria/aria-system-variables#aria_encrypt_tables) is enabled ([MDEV-34682](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34682))
* SELECT MIN on Spider table no longer returns more rows than expected ([MDEV-26345](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-26345))
* Fix Spider group by handler wrong result on order by aggregate ([MDEV-29546](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-29546))

#### [S3](https://app.gitbook.com/s/SsmexDFPv2xG2OTyO5yV/server-usage/storage-engines/s3-storage-engine)

* Fix Storage Engine S3 that caused 500 error when using Huawai Cloud S3 and possibly other S3 providers ([MDEV-34867](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34867))
  * A new option [s3-provider](https://app.gitbook.com/s/SsmexDFPv2xG2OTyO5yV/server-usage/storage-engines/s3-storage-engine/s3-storage-engine-system-variables#s3_provider) has been added. `s3-provider=Huawai` needs to be set for Huawai Cloud S3
  * New option [s3\_ssl\_no\_verify](https://app.gitbook.com/s/SsmexDFPv2xG2OTyO5yV/server-usage/storage-engines/s3-storage-engine/s3-storage-engine-system-variables#s3_ssl_no_verify), if true, SSL certificate verification for the S3 endpoint is disabled

### Optimizer

* Fix crash caused by query containing constant having clause ([MDEV-23983](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-23983))
* Fix assertion with optimizer\_join\_limit\_pref\_ratio and 1-table select ([MDEV-35072](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-35072))

### Data Definition - Alter Table

* Fix InnoDB crash under Windows Subsystem for Linux on ALTER TABLE or OPTIMIZE TABLE ([MDEV-34938](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34938))
* Modification of the column now correctly checks foreign key constraint ([MDEV-34392](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34392))
* Fix incorrect NULL value handling for instantly dropped BLOB columns ([MDEV-35122](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-35122))

### [Galera](https://app.gitbook.com/o/diTpXxF5WsbHqTReoBsS/s/3VYeeVGUV4AMqrA3zwy7/)

* Galera updated to 26.4.20
* Fix server crash when setting wsrep\_cluster\_address after adding invalid value to wsrep\_allowlist table ([MDEV-31173](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-31173))
* TOI (ALTER) no longer hangs on a parent table if SR transaction is in progress on a child table ([MDEV-34836](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34836))
* Fix INSERT...SELECT' on MyISAM table suddenly replicated by alera ([MDEV-34647](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34647))
* Fix case where with wsrep\_mode=REPLICATE\_ARIA, only part of the mixed-engine transactions was replicated ([MDEV-30653](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-30653))
* Fix galera\_ssl\_reload failure with warning message ([MDEV-32778](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-32778))
* When InnoDB gets an assertion failure, WSREP layer is now handled gracefully ([MDEV-32363](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-32363))

### Backup

* Recovery now correctly notes some log corruption ([MDEV-34802](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34802))
* InnoDB now correctly merges the change buffer to ROW\_FORMAT=COMPRESSED tables ([MDEV-34879](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34879))
* Can now selectively restore sequences using innodb tables from backup ([MDEV-32350](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-32350))

### JSON

* [JSON\_TABLE](https://app.gitbook.com/s/SsmexDFPv2xG2OTyO5yV/reference/sql-functions/special-functions/json-functions/json_table) now properly unquotes strings ([MDEV-27412](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-27412))
* [JSON\_TABLE](https://app.gitbook.com/s/SsmexDFPv2xG2OTyO5yV/reference/sql-functions/special-functions/json-functions/json_table) default values now allows non-string literals ([MDEV-25822](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-25822))

### General

* As per the [MariaDB Deprecation Policy](https://gitbook-v2-q3lwp8faq-gitbook.vercel.app/url/mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/about/platform-deprecation-policy), this will be the last release of [MariaDB 11.4](https://gitbook-v2-q3lwp8faq-gitbook.vercel.app/url/mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/mariadb-11-4-series/what-is-mariadb-114) for Windows 11 22H2
* [mariadbd](https://app.gitbook.com/s/SsmexDFPv2xG2OTyO5yV/server-management/starting-and-stopping-mariadb/mariadbd) no longer hangs on startup when --init-file target does not exist ([MDEV-34814](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34814))
* LOAD DATA INFILE with geometry data no longer fails ([MDEV-34883](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34883))
* Fix heap-use-after-free in group\_concat with compressed or GIS columns ([MDEV-16699](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16699))
* Fix assertion \`!is\_cond()' failed in Item\_bool\_func::val\_int / do\_select ([MDEV-35135](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-35135))
* Trigger now works correctly with bulk update ([MDEV-34718](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34718))
* Fix assertion failure in find\_producing\_item upon a query from a view ([MDEV-35276](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-35276))
* Add new setting, [--quick-max-column-width](https://app.gitbook.com/s/SsmexDFPv2xG2OTyO5yV/clients-and-utilities/mariadb-client/mariadb-command-line-client#-quick-max-column-widthn) to the mariadb client for use in --quick mode ([MDEV-34704](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-34704))

### Security

* Fixes for the following [security vulnerabilities](https://app.gitbook.com/s/SsmexDFPv2xG2OTyO5yV/security/securing-mariadb/security):
  * CVE-\`-\`\`\`

## Changelog

For a complete list of changes made in [MariaDB 11.4.4](https://gitbook-v2-q3lwp8faq-gitbook.vercel.app/url/mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/mariadb-11-4-series/mariadb-11-4-4-release-notes), with links to detailed\
information on each push, see the [changelog](https://gitbook-v2-q3lwp8faq-gitbook.vercel.app/url/mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/changelogs/changelogs-mariadb-11-4-series/mariadb-11-4-4-changelog).

## Contributors

For a full list of contributors to [MariaDB 11.4.4](https://gitbook-v2-q3lwp8faq-gitbook.vercel.app/url/mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/mariadb-11-4-series/mariadb-11-4-4-release-notes), see the [MariaDB Foundation release announcement](https://mariadb.org/mariadb-11-4-4-11-2-6-10-11-10-10-6-20-and-10-5-27-now-available/).

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