Claim: Since 2009, MariaDB has had ten different versions up to the current stable 10.5, several of which are no longer maintained.
Evidence: MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Old version, no longer maintained: 5.1 Old version, no longer maintained: Feb 2015 Old version, no longer maintained: 5.2 Old version, no longer maintained: Nov 2015 Old version, no longer maintained: 5.3 Old version, no longer maintained: Mar 2017 Old version, no longer maintained: 5.5 Old version, no longer maintained: Apr 2020 Old version, no longer maintained: 10.0 Old version, no longer maintained: Mar 2019 Old version, no longer maintained: 10.1 Old version, no longer maintained: Oct 2020 Older version, yet still maintained: 10.2 Older version, yet still maintained: May 2022 Older version, yet still maintained: 10.3 Older version, yet still maintained: May 2023 Older version, yet still maintained: 10.4 Older version, yet still maintained: Jun 2024 Current stable version: 10.5 Current stable version: Jun 2025