Hi @mschorm, could you, review the description of mariadb 10.4, please?

Thanks,

Sure!
Will look at it later today.
Thanks for the ping.

Hi,
The release notes are IMHO good.

For MariaDB, users are expected to watch the upstream release notes and changelog, if they are interested.
Usually there is no reason for staying on old versions in Fedora.

What I want to stress and point out, is a change of default authentication plugin.
Until now, users were used to log into the DB with passwords via mysql_native_password authentication plugin.
Now, they are logged in by the unix socket ( = not requiring password). Only 2 users can log in by default now - 'root' & 'mysql' - both can physically manipulate the the DB data, so requiring their passwords does not bring any extra protection.
Both DB users can log in via passwords too, but the passwords initialy set are invalid, so they must be changed prior using this authentication type.

Everything should be described here:
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/authentication-from-mariadb-104/

I just want to get this information to the users.

Thank you !

Looks good, thanks!