mariadb-operator 25.10.4 is here! 🦭

This patch release includes several bug fixes and minor enhancements for the 25.10.x series, see the changelog below for details.

mariadb-cluster changes in values

The cluster helm chart facilitates the installation of multiple MariaDB instances in the same namespace. For doing so, by using the default values, the release name will used to prefix the generated Secrets, including the root password which is now generated by default. Make sure you explicitly set mariadb.rootPasswordSecretKeyRef.generate=false to be backwards compatible.

See https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1572 for additional details.

Roadmap

We are excited to share the roadmap for the upcoming releases:

• [ ] Point In Time Recovery (PITR)
• [ ] Multi-cluster topology

Community

Contributions of any kind are always welcome: adding yourself to the list of adopters, reporting issues, submitting pull requests, or simply starring the project! 🌟

Enterprise

For enterprise users, see the MariaDB Enterprise Operator, a commercially supported Kubernetes operator from MariaDB with additional enterprise-grade features.

What's Changed

• fix: [Bug] args field on backup/restore resources lead to duplicate args on generated job resources by @majiayu000 in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1546
• Bump github.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/client/v8 from 8.2.0 to 8.4.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1547
• Bump golang.org/x/sync from 0.18.0 to 0.19.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1548
• Bump go.uber.org/zap from 1.27.0 to 1.27.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1549
• Bump github.com/gruntwork-io/terratest from 0.52.0 to 0.54.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1550
• Bump github.com/hashicorp/go-version from 1.7.0 to 1.8.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1551
• Remove embedded MaxScale leftovers by @mmontes11 in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1552
• docs: add documentation for Connection resources by @majiayu000 in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1555
• feat(storage): add pvcRetentionPolicy field to configure PVC retention by @majiayu000 in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1554
• perf: http.Transport created now has same defaults as http.DefaultTransport by @Michaelpalacce in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1565
• make embed-entrypoint for 2025q4 by @grooverdan in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1567
• Bump crate-ci/typos from 1.40.0 to 1.41.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1564
• Bump github.com/minio/minio-go/v7 from 7.0.95 to 7.0.97 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1563
• Bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 1.10.1 to 1.10.2 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1562
• Bump github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring from 0.85.0 to 0.87.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1561
• Fixing PhysicalBackup scheduling for Galera by @mmontes11 in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1570
• Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.38.2 to 1.38.3 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1560
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.27.2 to 2.27.3 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1559
• Improve secref handling in mariadb-cluster chart by @hedgieinsocks in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1572
• Release 25.10.4 by @mmontes11 in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1571

New Contributors

• @majiayu000 made their first contribution in https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/pull/1546

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator/compare/25.10.3...25.10.4