[blfs] branch trunk updated: MariaDB: Cover ourselves a bit by documenting that Galera was removed.

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commit 0b92c4cec32302e852a5e81df9321abaccfe64ae
Author: Douglas R. Reno <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun May 31 16:48:55 2026 -0500

    MariaDB: Cover ourselves a bit by documenting that Galera was removed.
    
    This will sort of go with the security advisory I will file later about
    MariaDB-11.8.8, as some functionality which users may be using has been
    removed from MariaDB-12.x.
---
 server/databases/mariadb.xml | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/server/databases/mariadb.xml b/server/databases/mariadb.xml
index dc3a357c0f..392efbd92c 100644
--- a/server/databases/mariadb.xml
+++ b/server/databases/mariadb.xml
@@ -147,6 +147,16 @@
       </para>
     </warning>
 
+    <caution>
+      <para>
+        If you are upgrading MariaDB from 11.x to 12.x, please pay special
+        attention to the upgrade notes later in this page. Users of existing
+        MariaDB installations may want to consider staying on the 11.8.x LTS
+        branch instead, especially if they rely on the Galera functionality
+        which was removed from MariaDB-12.x.
+      </para>
+    </caution>
+
     <para>
       For security reasons, running the server as an unprivileged user
       and group is strongly encouraged. Issue the following (as
@@ -446,8 +456,8 @@ mariadbd-safe --user=mariadb 2&gt;&amp;1 &gt;/dev/null &amp;</userinput></screen
         <para>
           Upgrading MariaDB from version 11 to 12 requires a full backup, a
           clean shutdown, uninstalling the old binaries, installing the version
-          12 binaries, restarting the server, and running 
-          <command>mariadb-upgrade</command> to update system tables. 
+          12 binaries, restarting the server, and running the
+          <command>mariadb-upgrade</command> command to update system tables.
           Skipping this backup can result in unrecoverable data.
         </para>
       </caution>

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