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    <term>Database</term>
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            header1="Lifecycle guide for MariaDB from MariaDB"
            header2="All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance" 
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        <item type="paragraph">📅 Last update on 2025-08-08</item>
       
        
        <item type="header2" class="article-title">What is MariaDB?</item>
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        <item type="header2" class="article-title">The entire lifecycle of MariaDB</item>

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            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.
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        <item type="paragraph">Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product MariaDB (MariaDB)</item>
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        <item type="removeableParagraph" heading="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. </item>
        

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                    <first>Latest version</first>
                    <second>12.1.1</second>
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                    <first>Number of releases</first>
                    <second>27</second>
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                    <second>GNU General Public License v2</second>
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                    <first>Release info</first>
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                    <second><![CDATA[mysqld --version]]></second>
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                    <first>Wikipedia</first>
                    <secondlink>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB</secondlink>
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