DOES AN MariaDB UPDATE IN MY SERVER INFLUENCE OR BROKE MY MOODLE? (URGENT HELP PLEASE)

DOES AN MariaDB UPDATE IN MY SERVER INFLUENCE OR BROKE MY MOODLE? (URGENT HELP PLEASE)

Lester Beade Duarte - દ્વારા
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I have Moodle 4.1.1 + installed. My server has PHP 7.4  and Im using MySQL for the database (see attached image of the environment) On my server my hosting provider has MariaDB 5.7.44 installed and my hosting provider tells me that it needs to update MariaDB to MariaDB 10.6.7 in order to take the measures with my site if necessary.
My question is: Does this MariaDB update affect my current Moodle at all? I have a lot of students on the site and I can't let it break

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Re: DOES AN MariaDB UPDATE IN MY SERVER INFLUENCE OR BROKE MY MOODLE? (URGENT HELP PLEASE)

Emma Richardson - દ્વારા
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You should not have an issue switching to mariadb and it is a version current enough to allow you to upgrade to 4.3 so that is good. Just make sure that you backup your database before it is switched over.
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Re: DOES AN MariaDB UPDATE IN MY SERVER INFLUENCE OR BROKE MY MOODLE? (URGENT HELP PLEASE)

Lester Beade Duarte - દ્વારા
Thank you. But I plan to continue for one or two more months with the version I have of Moodle (4.1.1). Am I not going to have problems? Will it keep working well?
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Re: DOES AN MariaDB UPDATE IN MY SERVER INFLUENCE OR BROKE MY MOODLE? (URGENT HELP PLEASE)

Visvanath Ratnaweera - દ્વારા
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You'll find the database requirements of various Moodle versions, here:
- https://moodledev.io/general/releases/4.1 LTS
- https://moodledev.io/general/releases/4.2
- https://moodledev.io/general/releases/4.3

Yes, they don't show the *maximum* allowed versions. I try to keep track of them in this chart: http://www.syndrega.ch/blog/#php-and-dbms-compatibility-of-major-moodle-releases (notice the *max.* columns).

Moodle 4.1 LTS is compatible with MySQL 5.7 and 8.0. Moodle 4.2 and 4.3 start at MySQL 8.0. The maximum versions are not yet known - still in the future.