Headline says it all: XtraDB has been commited to MariaDB
Looks like the Open Database Alliance is paying off:
XtraDB has been commited to MariaDB server and will be included in binary releases of MariaDB (scheduled on end of August – September) as replacement of InnoDB storage engine.
Combine this with OurDelta kinda going dormant, you’ve got all the major forks and add-ons combining into one unified build in MariaDB. This’ll give us something to run for the next year or two before we all switch to drizzle.