Hi @ddapparel
WordPress says it does. I tried searching but couldn’t find a definitive answer.
Even I found similar search results but to be sure it is better to test it.
I wasn’t able to test this directly as my test site uses MySQL, but you can test this out without putting your site at risk.
You can duplicate your site to a staging environment for performing this test without affecting your live site or impacting customers. Many hosting providers offer site staging facilities, but if you don’t have such a feature, you can create one with the WP Staging plugin.
Hello @margaretwporg
Thank you for the reply!
(This is a follow-up and is for others that have the same question/in the same situation.)
I actually cannot do a “test” setup because I’m on a VPS and the MariaDB gets changed/updated for every account (otherwise I could have just made a new account myself and done it that way but unfortunately it doesn’t work like that). I would have to have a whole new server/host.
But it got me thinking, I do use XAMPP for localhost testing and looked into it – they use 10.4.x out-of-box. Not what I was hoping for, so I did some more thinking and thought, I wonder if I could update mariadb in xampp. So I found this stackoverflow topic: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44027926/update-xampp-from-maria-db-10-1-to-10-2
Following the first “best answer” response there I was able to upgrade to MariaDB 10.6.9 and I was able to test basically everything that way first. And everything worked no problem 🙂👍
I would list my plugins I use, but the combination is too great for how many sites are out there. So anyone else wondering if it would work for your setup (most likely it will, but…) check that stackoverflow link I just posted and use XAMPP to test locally. 0 harm, 0 foul if anything goes wrong. Simply make a copy of the xampp folder and if it breaks just restore the copy and try again. XAMPP is a wonderful tool.
Summary: It seems after quite a bit of testing (after updating my live site), WooCommerce 6.8.2 and WordPress 6.0.2 are fully compatible with MariaDB 10.6.9 (YMMV, to be cautious). I’ve had no regressions in performance or crashes. Granted, I do have all debugging/errors blocked so I don’t know if new errors are popping up, but the site seems to be working fine 🙂
Thanks again!
