MariaDB to MySQL Galera Users: Move Your Shit by September 2026

Right, here’s the deal, because apparently someone at MariaDB finally decided to stop dragging this bloated corpse around. MariaDB has set September 30, 2026 as the deadline for users still clinging to MySQL-wsrep/Galera Cluster. After that, support is done, finished, fucked off into the sunset.

Why? Because maintaining Galera on top of MySQL is, in corporate terms, “not aligned with strategic priorities,” which is executive-speak for “this is a pain in the arse and we’re sick of paying for it.” MariaDB is basically telling users to migrate to MariaDB Galera Cluster instead, where they actually want people to be. Shocking, I know.

The article points out that MariaDB acquired Codership’s Galera business, and now they’re cleaning house. If you’re still running MySQL with wsrep patches and hoping nobody notices, well, congratulations: they noticed, and now there’s a bloody deadline attached. Existing customers can keep limping along until late 2026, but there won’t be any long-term fairy godmother swooping in after that.

In practical terms, this means admins need to stop procrastinating and start planning a migration. That includes checking compatibility, testing applications, validating replication behavior, and all the other tedious nonsense people put off until the final week before disaster. If you ignore this, don’t act surprised when your support evaporates and your cluster becomes your problem alone. Because it will. Spectacularly.

MariaDB’s message is brutally simple: move to MariaDB Galera Cluster or get left behind. They’re not gently suggesting it. They’re telling you the runway ends in September 2026, and if you’re still taxiing around in circles after that, the crater is on you.

As ever, this sort of thing reminds me of a sysadmin who ignored three years of deprecation warnings because “it still works.” It did, right up until the vendor support vanished, the cluster shat itself at 2 a.m., and he started using the phrase “business-critical” like it was some kind of magical fucking spell. It wasn’t. Nothing says career development like restoring a database while crying into a stale vending machine coffee.

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