MariaDB 10.0.14 發布，MySQL 分支版本
MariaDB 10.0.14 發布，此版本是 MariaDB 的穩定版本，現已提供下載，包括一些新特性和功能改進。
值得關注的改進：
TokuDB upgraded to 7.5.0
XtraDB upgraded to 5.6.20-68.0
InnoDB upgraded to 5.6.20
Spider upgraded to 3.2.11
SphinxSE upgraded to 2.1.9
The Feedback plugin now includes statistics on collation usage.
Error log has a flood protection that is activated after 10 identical unsafe warnings and disables them for the next 5 minutes.
Many fixes and optimizations for the Power8 platform.
As per the MariaDB Deprecation Policy, this will be the last release of MariaDB 10.0 for both Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy" and Mint 16 "Petra".
With the recent release of CentOS 7 and RHEL 7, we are pleased to now provide packages for both distributions. Instructions for how to enable the repositories can be found by visiting the "Installing MariaDB with YUM" page and the repository configuration tool.
完整更新記錄請看changelog。
同時還可以查看 MariaDB 10.0 特性概覽和 What is MariaDB 10.0? 。
MariaDB 是一個采用 Maria 存儲引擎的 MySQL 分支版本，是由原來 MySQL 的作者 Michael Widenius 創辦的公司所開發的免費開源的數據庫服務器。
與 MySQL 相比較，MariaDB 更強的地方在于：
- Maria 存儲引擎
- PBXT 存儲引擎
- XtraDB 存儲引擎
- FederatedX 存儲引擎
- 更快的復制查詢處理
- 線程池
- 更少的警告和bug
- 運行速度更快
- 更多的 Extensions (More index parts, new startup options etc)
- 更好的功能測試
- 數據表消除
- 慢查詢日志的擴展統計
- 支持對 Unicode 的排序
來自：http://www.oschina.net/news/55657/mariadb-10-0-14