# Changes in Galera 4.24 (2025-09-08)

Codership is pleased to announce the release of Galera Replication library 4.24,
implementing wsrep API version 26.

The library is available as targeted packages and package repositories for a
number of Linux distributions, including Debian 11 (Bullseye), and 12
(Bookworm), 22.04 LTS (Jammy), and 24.04 LTS (Noble),
RHEL 8, and 9. Obtaining packages using a package repository removes the need to
download individual files and facilitates the deployment and upgrade of Galera
nodes.

This and future releases will be available from https://www.galeracluster.com or
https://www.mariadb.com/ (as Codership has been acquired by MariaDB plc).

Notable changes and fixes in Galera since latest release 4.24:
- Added option to disable application level protocol check to allow migration
from MySQL to MariaDB
- Fixed utility scripts to support MariaDB in addition to MySQL
- Fixed assertion failure when starting the cluster with `galera_new_cluster` 
- Update wsrep API and implement config service v2. This implements version 2 of
the config service. Version 2 of the service maintains the same interface and
functionality of version 1. The difference is that version 2 is able to retrieve
the complete list of parameters right after the Galera library is loaded, before
initializing the replicator.

Known Issues:
- In order to install Galera package on RHEL 8, MySQL and MariaDB modules need
to be disabled first with `dnf -y module disable mysql mariadb`.