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 |Percona XtraBackup| 2.4.0-rc1
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Percona is glad to announce the release of |Percona XtraBackup| 2.4.0-rc1 on
February 8th 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 is a **Release Candidate** quality release and it is not intended for
production. If you want a high quality, Generally Available release, the
current Stable version should be used (currently 2.3.3 in the 2.3 series at the
time of writing).

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

Known Issues
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 Backed-up table data could not be recovered if backup was taken while running
 ``OPTIMIZE TABLE`` (bug :bug:`1541763`) or ``ALTER TABLE ... TABLESPACE`` (bug
 :bug:`1532878`) on that table.

 Compact Backups currently don't work due to bug :bug:`1192834`.
