This topic describes the release notes for ApsaraDB RDS for MariaDB and provides links to the relevant references.
2024
August
Category | Feature | Description | Release date | References |
New feature | Cloud disk encryption | Service keys can be used to enable the cloud disk encryption feature when you create ApsaraDB RDS instances that run MariaDB 10.6. | 08-13 | |
New feature | MariaDB 10.6 | MariaDB 10.6 is supported for ApsaraDB RDS. MariaDB 10.6 corresponds to the official release of MariaDB 10.6.11. | 08-08 |
2023
August
Category | Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Feature optimization | Restoration | The tabs on the Backup and Restoration page of an RDS instance are adjusted. The Data Backup and Log Backup tabs are moved to the Base Backups tab. The original Backup Settings tab is renamed as Backup Strategy. This does not affect the original features. These changes aim to simplify and optimize the operations on the Backup and Restoration page tab to improve user experience. | 08-15 |
March
Category | Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Feature optimization | Instance creation | A port can be specified for an RDS instance when you create the RDS instance. | 03-16 |
2022
December
Category | Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Discontinued feature | Enhanced whitelist mode | The feature to configure an IP address whitelist of the enhanced whitelist mode is no longer supported. | 12-06 |
May
Category | Feature | Description | Release date | References |
New feature | Enterprise-level console | The enterprise-level ApsaraDB RDS console is released. You can use the enterprise-level ApsaraDB RDS console to modify multiple parameters, edit multiple tags, renew multiple instances, and modify multiple attributes at a time. This improves the experience of batch instance management. | 05-11 |
April
Category | Feature | Description | Release date | References |
New feature | RAM policies | Resource Access Management (RAM) policies are used to manage the permissions of RAM users. The RAM policies involve 12 conditions. | 04-14 |
March
Category | Feature | Description | Release date | References |
New feature | Instance release protection | If your RDS instance uses the pay-as-you-go billing method and runs critical workloads, you can enable the release protection feature for your RDS instance. This feature prevents your RDS instance from being manually released due to accidental operations or lack of communication among team members. | 03-08 |
2021
December
Category | Feature | Description | Release date | References |
New feature | Prohibition of creating RDS instances for which disk encryption is disabled | Users can attach a RAM policy to a RAM user to prevent the RAM user from creating RDS instances for which disk encryption is disabled. | 12-20 |
September
Category | Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Feature optimization | Pagination for the DescribeDBInstances operation | Users can use the MaxResults parameter to specify the maximum number of entries per page and use the NextToken parameter to specify the token that is used to display the next page. The NextToken parameter is set to its value that is returned from the most recent call of the DescribeDBInstances operation. | 10-15 |
August
Category | Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Feature optimization | Reconfiguration of the Buffer_Pool_Size parameter | Users can reconfigure the Buffer_Pool_Size parameter of an RDS instance on the Parameters page of the instance in the ApsaraDB RDS console. | 08-16 | Change the size of the InnoDB buffer pool for an ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL instance |
June
Category | Feature | Description | Release date | References |
New feature | Alerting | An alerting system can be built for an ApsaraDB RDS instance with a few clicks. This alerting system helps users monitor crucial metrics and identify abnormal metrics at the earliest opportunity. | 06-01 |
May
Category | Feature | Description | Release date | References |
New feature | Enterprise SSD (ESSD) | ESSDs are supported for RDS instances. | 05-27 | |
New feature | Selection of zones for secondary RDS instances | The zones of secondary RDS instances can be selected. | 05-27 |
2020
September
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
RAM-based authorization | The permissions on RDS instances can be granted to RAM users by using RAM. | 2020-09-08 |
April
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Billing method | The billing method of an RDS instance can be changed from subscription to pay-as-you-go. | 2020-04-21 | Switch the billing method from subscription to pay-as-you-go |
2019
September
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
New buy page | A new ApsaraDB RDS buy page is released. | 2019-09-12 |
July
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Five-year subscription | Five-year subscription is supported for RDS instances that run MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB. | 2019-07-20 |