Percona announces the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.3.5 on July 8, 2016. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software 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.
This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.3 series.
Bugs fixed:
- Backup process would fail if
--throttleoption was used. Bug fixed #1554235. .ibdfiles for remote tablespaces were not copied back to the original location pointed by the.islfiles. Bug fixed #1555423.- When called with insufficient parameters, like specifying the empty
--defaults-fileoption, Percona XtraBackup could crash. Bug fixed #1566228. - Documentation states that the default value for
--ftwrl-wait-query-typeisall, however it wasupdate. Changed the default value to reflect the documentation. Bug fixed #1566315. - Free Software Foundation address in copyright notices was outdated. Bug fixed #1222777.
- Backup process would fail if the
datadirspecified on the command-line was not the same as one that is reported by the server. Percona XtraBackup now allows thedatadirfrommy.cnfoverride the one fromSHOW VARIABLES. xtrabackup will print a warning that they don’t match, but continue. Bug fixed #1526467. - Backup process would fail on MariaDB if binary logs were in non-standard directory. Bug fixed #1517629.
- Output of
--slave-infooption was missing an apostrophe. Bug fixed #1573371.
Other bugs fixed: #1599397.
Release notes with all the bugfixes for Percona XtraBackup 2.3.5 are available in our online documentation. Bugs can be reported on the launchpad bug tracker.
