# \[ANN\] mariadb 1.2.0

**URL:** <https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-mariadb-1-2-0/15709>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** databases, bindings, announce\
**Created:** [November 30, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-mariadb-1-2-0/15709 "2024-11-30T12:50:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![paurkedal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ocaml.org/paurkedal/32/586_2.png) [@paurkedal](https://discuss.ocaml.org/u/paurkedal)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-mariadb-1-2-0/15709/1 "2024-11-30T12:50:24Z")

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I’m please to announce a new release of the [mariadb](https://github.com/ocaml-community/ocaml-mariadb) package, which provides client bindings for MariaDB and MySQL. See the full release notes below.

This is also to announce that I have taken over maintenance of the project. Currently I am the sole maintainer (and I usually use PostgreSQL for my own deployments), so if someone has the time en interest to contribute, let me know. The main focus from my side is to keep the project up to date and stable, rather than making major changes.

Release notes:

- Added `Stmt.start_txn` (#59 by Corentin Leruth).
- Added `Res.insert_id` as binding for `mysql_stmt_insert_id` (#58 by  
Corentin Leruth).
- Updated to support recent OCaml versions (#45 by @kit-ty-kate).
- Fixed too-early retrieval of statement metadata (#41 by Albert Peschar).
- Fixed decoding bug for the integer type (#54 by Raman Varabets, tested  
by #61 by Corentin Leruth).
- Fixed a memory leaks related to result metadata (#39 by Albert Peschar).
- The build system is now dune and dune-configurator (#52 by Petter A.  
Urkedal) and some of the examples have been converted to a test suite  
(#60 by Petter A. Urkedal).
- The project has been transferred to ocaml-community with Petter A.  
Urkedal as the new maintainer.