Percona XtraBackup 2.4.1 GA is now available

Percona is glad to announce the first GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.1 on February 23rd 2016. Downloads are available from our download site and from apt and yum repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.

New Features:

• Percona XtraBackup has implemented basic support for MySQL 5.7 and Percona Server 5.7.

Bugs Fixed:

• Percona XtraBackup didn’t respect innodb_log_file_size variable stored in backup-my.cnf. Bug fixed #1527081.
• If server would run out of space while backups were taken with innobackupex –rsync option backup process would fail but innobackupex would still complete with completed OK! message. Bug fixed #1537256.
• Percona XtraBackup was silently skipping extra arguments. Bug fixed #1533542 (Fungo Wang).

Other bugs fixed: #1544671 and #1535535.

Release notes with all the bugfixes for Percona XtraBackup 2.4.1 are available in our online documentation. Bugs can be reported on the launchpad bug tracker.