# Release Notes - v2.8.24

**Date**: 2026-01-18

## 📝 Executive Summary

```text
2.8.24 2026-01-18

- fix: improve MariaDB 11+ detection by checking version_comment (issue #869)
- fix: handle innodb_buffer_pool_chunk_size=0 (autosize) in MariaDB 10.8+ (#869)
- chore: bump version to 2.8.24
```

## 🛠️ Internal Commit History

- Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' (3184eab)
- fix: MariaDB 11+ detection and InnoDB chunk breakdown (issue #869) (3a2cb4a)
- Merge pull request #868 from major/copilot/add-default-prompt-username-password (a8ede22)
- Merge pull request #871 from jmrenouard/master (b873cb8)
- chore: bump version to 2.8.23 (f603d77)
- Merge pull request #870 from jmrenouard/master (2ee602f)
- Refactor: consolidate duplicate error handling in password prompt (180a5d6)
- Add password prompting when --user provided without --pass (26dd18d)
- Initial plan (83a6413)

## ⚙️ Technical Evolutions

## ✅ Laboratory Verification Results

- [x] Automated TDD suite passed.
- [x] Multi-DB version laboratory execution validated.
- [x] Performance indicator delta analysis completed.
