EOL for 11.2 is coming up in a few weeks, see: https://mariadb.org/about/#maintenance-policy I upgraded my local MariaDB dev database to 11.4 and performed a few cursory GETs and PUTs via the Fineract API--just what I've learned to do so far. Nothing broke. I didn't run all the tests though. I didn't see any obvious red flags in https://mariadb.com/kb/en/changes-improvements-in-mariadb-11-4/