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 |Percona XtraBackup| 2.4.1
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Percona is glad to announce the release of |Percona XtraBackup| 2.4.1 on
February 16th 2016. Downloads are available from our `download site
<http://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/>`_ and from :ref:`apt <apt_repo>`
and :ref:`yum <yum_repo>` repositories.

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

This release contains all the features and bug fixes in Percona XtraBackup
2.3.3, plus the following:

New features
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 |Percona XtraBackup| has implemented basic support for |MySQL| 5.7 and
 |Percona Server| 5.7.

Bugs Fixed
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 |Percona XtraBackup| didn't respect ``innodb_log_file_size`` variable
 stored in :file:`backup-my.cnf`. Bug fixed :bug:`1527081`.

 If server would run out of space while backups were taken with
 :option:`innobackupex --rsync` option backup process would fail but
 |innobackupex| would still complete with ``completed OK!`` message. Bug fixed
 :bug:`1537256`.

 |Percona XtraBackup| was silently skipping extra arguments. Bug fixed
 :bug:`1533542` (*Fungo Wang*).

Other bugs fixed: :bug:`1544671` and :bug:`1535535`.
