Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.9.2 on 28th March 2012. Downloads are available from our download site here. This is a late BETA release in the process of going towards Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0.
This is a BETA quality release and is not inteded for production. If you want a high quality, Generally Available release, you should use the current Stable version – currently 1.6.5 in the 1.6 series at the time of writing.
The 1.9.x version numbers will be used to distinguish between pre-release versions of PerconaXtraBackup 2.0 and the Generally Available final release.
If you wish to run pre-release Percona software, you can use our experimental software repositories or download packages from our normal download site.
The full release notes can be seen in our online documentation.
About the Author
Stewart SmithStewart Smith has a deep background in database internals including MySQL, MySQL Cluster, Drizzle, InnoDB and HailDB. he is also one of the founding core developers of the Drizzle database server. He served at Percona from 2011-2014. He is a former Percona employee.
what’s the new feature
Compared to 1.9.1, there’s only a couple of bug fixes.