Percona XtraBackup 2.4.11 Is Now Available

Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.11 on April 24, 2018. This release is based on MySQL 5.7.19. You can download it from our download site and 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, it drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.

New features and improvements:

• The support of the Percona Server encrypted general tablespaces was implemented in this version of Percona XtraBackup. Issue fixed PXB-1513.
• Percona XtraBackup is now able to backup encrypted Percona Server instances which are using keyring_vault plugin. Issue fixed PXB-1514.

Release notes with all the improvements for version 2.4.11 are available in our online documentation. Please report any bugs to the issue tracker.