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 |Percona XtraBackup| 2.3.0-alpha1
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Percona is glad to announce the release of |Percona XtraBackup| 2.3.0-alpha1 on
October 30th 2014. Downloads are available from our download site `here
<http://www.percona.com/downloads/TESTING/XtraBackup/xtrabackup-2.3.0alpha1/>`_.
This **ALPHA** release, will be available in :ref:`Debian testing
<debian_testing>` and :ref:`CentOS testing <yum_testing>` repositories.

This is an **ALPHA** 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 2.2.5 in the 2.2 series at the time of
writing).

New features
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 |Percona XtraBackup| has implemented new tool, :ref:`xbcloud_binary`, which
 can be used to upload/download full or part of |xbstream| archive from/to
 cloud.

.. note::

   In order to sucessfully install Percona Xtrabackup 2.3.0-alpha1 on *CentOS*,
   ``libev.so.4`` package will need to be installed first. ``libev.so.4``
   package can be installed from the `EPEL
   <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`_ repositories.
