RDS version numbers in RDS for MariaDB

RDS version numbers use either the major.minor.patch or the major.minor.patch.YYYYMMDD naming scheme. An RDS patch version includes important bug fixes added to a minor version after its release. An RDS date version (YYMMDD) is a security patch. A security patch doesn't include any fixes that might change the engine's behavior.

To identify the Amazon RDS version number of your database, you must first create the rds_tools extension by using the following command:

CREATE EXTENSION rds_tools;

You can find out the RDS version number of your RDS for MariaDB database with the following SQL query:

mysql> select mysql.rds_version();

For example, querying an RDS for MariaDB 10.6.14 database returns the following output:

+---------------------+
| mysql.rds_version() |
+---------------------+
| 10.6.14.R2.20231201  |
+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)