Percona XtraBackup 2.4.2 is now available

Percona is glad to announce the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.2 on April 1st, 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 support for InnoDB tablespace encryption.
• Percona XtraBackup has been rebased on MySQL 5.7.11.

Bugs Fixed:

• When backup was taken on MariaDB 10 with GTID enabled, Percona XtraBackup didn’t store gtid_slave_pos in xtrabackup_slave_info but logged it only to STDERR. Bug fixed #1404484.
• Backup process would fail if --throttle option was used. Bug fixed #1554235.

Release notes with all the bugfixes for Percona XtraBackup 2.4.2 are available in our online documentation. Bugs can be reported on the launchpad bug tracker.