MariaDB 10.5.9, 10.4.18, 10.3.28 and 10.2.37 now available: https://mariadb.org/mariadb-10-5-9-10-4-18-10-3-28-and-10-2-37-now-available/
The FOSDEM 2021 CfP is now open and there will be a #MariaDB devroom. The CfP closes on 22 Dec, so if you have an idea for a talk, submit it now! https://mariadb.org/fosdem2021cfp/
The rest of the talks of this mini-conf are also really good and can be found on the MariaDB Foundation's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/MariaDBFoundation/videos
Slides are here, but they're pretty useless without the video of me speaking (I try not to do wall-of-text slides that I'm just reading if I can help it): https://speakerdeck.com/dbart/building-mariadb
My "Building MariaDB" talk went "live" at 8:00AM US Eastern time on YouTube. Weird sitting there watching and being an attendee at my own talk. It's on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/aqlP72dDAFY
I'm speaking at a #mariadb virtual mini-conference tomorrow! Details at: https://mariadb.org/minifest2020/
Some Thoughts on Gratitude
https://daniel-bartholomew.com/2020/11/28/some-thoughts-on-gratitude/
Day 7 of being more grateful. Today is the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US. Historically this is a day to spend with extended family. Aunts, Uncles, and Grandparents when I was younger. Parents, Brothers, Sisters, Nephews, and Nieces now. I miss you guys, grateful you're safe and wish we could be together, hopefully next year.
ImageMagick being difficult
https://daniel-bartholomew.com/2020/11/25/imagemagick-being-difficult/
Day 2 of trying to have more gratitude. Today I'd like to say thank you to all the programmers, volunteer and paid who have made my career possible. Especially the open source ones, but we don't live in a perfect world, and I'm still thankful for the devices I use and enjoy that happen to be closed source.
@libreoffice 7 is awesome, I just wish they had actual repositories so I could get updates in my package manager (apt) automatically.
MariaDB Aug 2020 releases are out:
https://mariadb.org/mariadb-10-5-5-10-4-14-10-3-24-10-2-33-and-10-1-46-now-available/
Working with IPv6 in MariaDB, the INET6 datatype: https://youtu.be/1zNOGGgUnlQ
MariaDB 10.5 is now stable and one of the headlining new features is the inclusion of MariaDB ColumnStore. If you want to give it a try, there's a new Getting Started page with lots of good information: https://mariadb.com/docs/solutions/columnstore/get-started-with-columnstore/