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 |Percona XtraBackup| 2.1.5 
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Percona is glad to announce the release of |Percona XtraBackup| 2.1.5 on September 19th 2013. Downloads are available from our download site `here <http://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/XtraBackup-2.1.5/>`_ and :doc:`Percona Software Repositories </installation>`.

This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.1 series.

New Features
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 |Percona XtraBackup| now supports new form of :ref:`incremental backups <xb_incremental_ps_56>` for |Percona Server| 5.6 that uses `Log Archiving for XtraDB <http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.6/management/log_archiving.html>`_ feature.

 |Percona XtraBackup| now supports new :option:`innobackupex --version-check` option. When specified, |innobackupex| will perform a version check against the server on the backup stage after creating a server connection.


Bugs Fixed
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 |Percona XtraBackup| did not close temporary files created when preparing a compact backup, which would lead to excessive disk space usage until the prepare process finished. Bug fixed :bug:`1111380`.

 Depending on the subroutine |innobackupex| could sometimes leave the child processes running in case of the error. |innobackupex| now makes sure that all child processes are killed if an error occurs in the script. Bug fixed :bug:`1135441`.
 
 The 5.6-based binary ( ``xtrabackup_56``), which is used to backup both |MySQL| 5.6 and |Percona Server| 5.6 servers, did not support Percona Server-specific :option:`innodb_log_block_size` option in Percona Server 5.6.11+ and would fail when trying to backup a server with a non-default :option:`innodb_log_block_size` value. Bug fixed :bug:`1194828`.

 |Percona XtraBackup| would stop in case log block numbers had to wrap around, which only happens once per 1 GB of log writes, and the wrap-around point was between the last checkpoint and the current log tail at the time the backup starts. Bug fixed :bug:`1206309`.
 
 ``xtrabackup_56`` binary would fail to create a suspend file, which would result in an error. Bug fixed :bug:`1210266`.

 Regression was introduced in |Percona XtraBackup| 2.1.4 which lead to ``cp`` utility being used to copy metadata files even if the :option:`innobackupex --rsync` option was used. Bug fixed :bug:`1211263`.

Other bugs fixed: bug fixed :bug:`1214272`, bug fixed :bug:`1214730`, bug fixed :bug:`1213102`, bug fixed :bug:`1213036`, bug fixed :bug:`1204045`, bug fixed :bug:`1154476`, bug fixed :bug:`1195402`, bug fixed :bug:`1195055`.
