Technology
MariaDB 13 new features in Docker, and whether to upgrade
MariaDB 13.0.2, stable since 15 September 2026, is a rolling release with community support until Q4 2026, not an LTS. It adds redo log archiving, UPDATE with RETURNING and implicit query block names for hints. I upgraded in Docker from 12.3 and 11.8: the server starts, but mariadb-upgrade misses broken stored routines.