Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 11.4 with new password validation options
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Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 11.4, the latest long-term maintenance release from the MariaDB community. The new version brings improvements to password validation, database-level privileges, replication, and the InnoDB storage engine.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Support for the Simple Password Check Plugin and Cracklib Password Check Plugin for password validation
- Enhancements to database-level privileges, replication, and the InnoDB storage engine made by the MariaDB community
- Availability of MariaDB 11.4 in all AWS Commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions
- Ability to upgrade to MariaDB 11.4 using Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments
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