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Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports the latest minor versions of MariaDB, providing security fixes, bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features. Users can utilize automatic minor version upgrades or RDS Managed Blue/Green Deployments for safer and simpler updates.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. These minor versions include fixes for known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, as well as bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also use Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green Deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates to your MariaDB instances. For more information about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades and Blue/Green Deployments, see the Amazon RDS User Guide.

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