Lifecycle guide for MariaDB from MariaDB

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2025-12-12

What is MariaDB?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Development is led by some of the original developers of MySQL, who forked it due to concerns over its acquisition by Oracle Corporation in 2009.

The entire lifecycle of MariaDB

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of MariaDB. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.

MariaDB (MariaDB) release, version and end-of-life information

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product MariaDB (MariaDB)

What is the MariaDB release strategy?

A new long-term support MariaDB Server version will be announced for General Availability approximately once every two years. A new short-term support MariaDB Server version will be announced approximately quarterly. The MariaDB Foundation guarantees that every long-term maintenance release will be maintained for at least 5 years, and every short-term maintenance release for at least one year.

Facts and figures about MariaDB

Product

MariaDB

Vendor

MariaDB

Latest version

12.2.1

Number of releases

Number of versions

461

Number of unstable versions

Number of versions affected by CVE

362

Licence

GNU General Public License v2

Licence details

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Version command

mysqld --version

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB

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