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 |Percona XtraBackup| 2.3.3
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Percona is glad to announce the release of |Percona XtraBackup| 2.3.3 on
December 17th 2015. Downloads are available from our `download site
<http://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/Percona-XtraBackup-2.3.3/>`_ and
from :ref:`apt <apt_repo>` and :ref:`yum <yum_repo>` repositories.

This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.3
series.

Bugs fixed
----------

 Database directories were not removed if ``DROP DATABASE`` happened during the
 backup. Bug fixed :bug:`1461735`.

 Backup would fail if :ref:`storing_history` feature was enabled and backup was
 taken from server without binary log enabled. Bug fixed :bug:`1509812`.

 |Percona XtraBackup| now fails with descriptive error message if
 :option:`--defaults-extra-file` is not specified first. Bug fixed
 :bug:`1511451`.

 Backup would fail if :option:`--rsync` option was used without specifying
 temporary folder. Bug fixed :bug:`1511701`.

 Fixed |Percona XtraBackup| crash which happened when it was used for SST on
 *MariaDB Galera Cluster* caused by double free of :option:`datadir`' variable.
 Bug fixed :bug:`1512281`.

 :option:`--move-back` did not respect the :option:`innodb_log_group_home_dir`
 and :option:`innodb_data_home_dir` options which caused ``ib_logfiles`` and
 data files not to be moved to correct location. Bug fixed :bug:`1512616`.

 :file:`xtrabackup_binlog_info` was not updated correctly when applying
 incremental backups. Bug fixed :bug:`1523687`.

 When using a :option:`--defaults-file` option |Percona XtraBackup| would
 complain about :option:`datadir` being mismatched if it wasn't explicitly set
 in the defaults file. Bug fixed :bug:`1508448`.

 Fixed build issues by adding missing check in ``cmake`` script for ``xxd``
 presence. Bug fixed :bug:`1511267`.

 |Percona Xtrabackup| would terminate backup process without error if
 :option:`--slave-info` option was used on a server not running as a
 replication slave. Bug fixed :bug:`1513520`.

 |innobackupex| when used with :option:`--stream` option would create an empty
 directory with a timestamp as a name. Bug fixed :bug:`1520569`.

Other bugs fixed :bug:`1523728` and :bug:`1507238`.
