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by HarrisonFisk 4839 days ago
The interesting part about this is that MariaDB is only a drop in replacement for MySQL 5.5. MariaDB isn't porting to MySQL 5.6 (which came out last month), instead they are going to try to reimplement all of the functionality from MySQL 5.6 which will probably never finish:

http://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-10-0-and-mysql-5-6/