MariaDB and mySQL 5.5/5.6 announced for CentOS

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#1 December 21, 2015

I'm wondering what is the best upgrade path from mySQL 5.1 ?

Would it be okay to jump right into mariaDB 10 with a mysqldump from 5.1 ?

Or would something like this be better:

mysql5.1 -> mysql5.5 -> mariadb10

Refs:

http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.centos.announce https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/upgrading-from-mysql-to-mariadb/