Hello, I would like to announce a new DBI driver for MariaDB and MySQL databases. As stated in the email [1] which I sent to this mailing list about a half year ago, we in the GoodData company decided to create a fork of the old DBD::mysql driver under the name DBD::MariaDB.
The source code of this new driver is now public, avaiable in our git repository on GitHub [2]. After we declare it stable we would like to upload it to CPAN, too. We hope that this new DBD::MariaDB driver would be useful also for others and we are open for pull requests or other bug fixes from the community. Major changes in DBD::MariaDB since DBD::mysql 4.043 are: * Correct Unicode support according to the standard Perl Unicode model * Better compatibility with the MariaDB client library * Fixes for security issues, SSL/TLS (BACKRONYM and Riddle vulnerabilities) * Fixes for ZEROFILL columns and magic scalars (needed by Amavis) * Extended Travis-CI testing [1] - https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.dbi.dev/2017/08/msg8030.html [2] - https://github.com/gooddata/DBD-MariaDB
