New Features
Percona XtraBackup has implemented support for Galera GTID autorecovery. Percona XtraBackup retrieves the GTID information, after backing up a server with backup locks support, from the InnoDB trx header on recovery and creates the xtrabackup_galera_info during that stage.
Bugs Fixed
Percona XtraBackup is now built with system zlib library instead of the older bundled one. Bug fixed #1108016.
apt-get source was downloading older version of Percona XtraBackup. Bug fixed #1363259.
innobackupex would ignore the innobackupex --databases without innobackupex --stream option and back up all the databases. Bug fixed #569387.
rsync package wasn’t a dependency although it is required for the innobackupex --rsync option. Bug fixed #1259436.
innobackupex --galera-info was checking only for non-capitalized wsrep_* status variables which was incompatible with MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0. Bug fixed #1306875.
Percona XtraBackup now supports MariaDB GTID. Bugs fixed #1329539 and #1326967 (Nirbhay Choubey).
Percona XtraBackup would crash trying to remove absent table from InnoDB data dictionary while preparing a partial backup. Bug fixed #1340717.
MariaDB 10.1 is now added to the list of supported servers. Bug fixed #1364398.
Percona XtraBackup would fail to restore (copy-back) tables that have partitions with their own tablespace location. Bug fixed #1322658.
Other bugs fixed: #1333570, #1326224, and #1181171.