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MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future

Support for the MySQL build ends in September as the company develops separate premium replication technology

With support for MySQL Galera Cluster ending in two months, open source observers are again questioning how much of the technology's future MariaDB plc intends to keep in the community edition.

The company says Galera remains a core, open source component of MariaDB while it develops separate replication capabilities for enterprise customers.

In March, MariaDB, the company behind the database forked from MySQL, reversed course and announced that MariaDB Community Server 12.3 would continue to include the Galera Cluster libraries.

Galera is GPLv2-licensed database clustering technology created by Codership Oy, which MariaDB plc acquired in May 2025. Developers had previously noticed the clustering libraries were being removed from future versions of MariaDB Community Server, the open source database stewarded by the MariaDB Foundation.

Frédéric Descamps, open source evangelist at the MariaDB Foundation, said at...

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