Percona XtraBackup 2.2.4 is now available

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.4 on September 12th 2014. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables 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 backup.

New Features:

• Percona XtraBackup has implemented support for Galera GTID auto-recovery. Percona XtraBackup retrieves the GTID information, after backing up a server with backup locks support, from the InnoDB trx header on recovery and creates the xtrabackup_galera_info during that stage.

Bugs Fixed:

• Percona XtraBackup is now built with system zlib library instead of the older bundled one. Bug fixed #1108016.
• apt-get source was downloading older version of Percona XtraBackup. Bug fixed #1363259.
• innobackupex would ignore the innobackupex --databases without innobackupex --stream option and back up all the databases. Bug fixed #569387.
• rsync package wasn’t a dependency although it is required for the innobackupex --rsync option. Bug fixed #1259436.
• innobackupex --galera-info was checking only for non-capitalized wsrep_* status variables which was incompatible with MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0. Bug fixed #1306875.
• Percona XtraBackup would crash trying to remove absent table from InnoDB data dictionary while preparing a partial backup. Bug fixed #1340717.
• Percona XtraBackup now supports MariaDB GTID. Bugs fixed #1329539 and #1326967 (Nirbhay Choubey).
• MariaDB 10.1 is now added to the list of supported servers. Bug fixed #1364398.
• Percona XtraBackup would fail to restore (copy-back) tables that have partitions with their own tablespace location. Bug fixed #1322658.

Other bugs fixed: #1333570, #1326224, and #1181171.

Release notes with all the bugfixes for Percona XtraBackup 2.2.4 are available in our online documentation. Bugs can be reported on the launchpad bug tracker