Percona XtraBackup 2.4.6

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.6 on February 22^nd 2017. Downloads are available from our download site and from apt and yum repositories.

This release is the GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.4 series.

New features

Percona XtraBackup has implemented new xtrabackup --remove-original option that can be used to remove the encrypted and compressed files once they’ve been decrypted/decompressed.

Bugs Fixed

• xtrabackup was using username set for server in a configuration file even if a different user was defined in the users configuration file. Bug fixed PXB-463.

• Incremental backups did not include xtrabackup_binlog_info and xtrabackup_galera_info files. Bug fixed PXB-489.

• In case a warning was written to stout instead of stderr during the streaming backup, it could cause assertion in the xbstream. Bug fixed PXB-491.

• xtrabackup --move-back did not always restore out-of-datadir tablespaces to their original directories. Bug fixed PXB-492.

• innobackupex and xtrabackup scripts were showing the password in the ps output when it was passed as a command line argument. Bug fixed PXB-585

• Incremental backup would fail with path like ~/backup/inc_1 because xtrabackup didn’t properly expand tilde. Bug fixed PXB-775.

• Fixed missing dependency check for perl(Digest::MD5) in rpm packages. Bug fixed PXB-777.

• Percona XtraBackup now supports -H, -h, -u and -p shortcuts for --hostname, --datadir, --user and --password respectively. Bugs fixed PXB-947 and PXB-1032.

• [UPDATE 2016-02-28]: New packages have been pushed to repositories with incremented package version to address the bug PXB-497.

Other bugs fixed: PXB-945.

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