📷 🖼️ #DigiKam 9.0 works with #MariaDB 12.3. ✅
Upgrading from 11.8 will take a while, so you need to let MariaDB server run for up to few minutes while it reformats the binlog et al., so DigiKam will possibly complain "Can't connect within 60 seconds." But on the 2nd run it will be okay.

#upgrade #database #photography #albums #opensource #DigitalIndependence #DigitalSovereignty

For upgrading on #Ubuntu 25.10, I had to follow slightly different steps than the official. In short: The PGP key did not work for my APT, so I did:

```
curl -fsSL https://mariadb.org/mariadb_release_signing_key.pgp | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/mariadb.gpg
```

```
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mariadb.sources
# MariaDB 12.3 repository list - created 2026-04-15 10:49 UTC
# https://mariadb.org/download/
X-Repolib-Name: MariaDB
Types: deb
# deb.mariadb.org is a dynamic mirror if your preferred mirror goes offline. See https://mariadb.org/mirrorbits/ for details.
# URIs: https://deb.mariadb.org/12.rc/ubuntu
URIs: https://mirror.23m.com/mariadb/repo/12.3/ubuntu
Suites: questing
Components: main main/debug
#Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/mariadb-keyring.pgp
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/mariadb.gpg
```
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