Track request for xtrabackup: 8.0

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Hello,

Per Process for aliases, auto-connections and tracks 2, we need a 1-week voting/discussion period, so I’ll check back on the discussion and votes in a few days.

I have four questions before casting my vote.

  1. What’s the actual track name you’re requesting? :slight_smile:
  2. What’s xtrabackup’s release cadence, how often is a new major version (potentially requiring a new track) released? is this documented somewhere by upstream?
  3. Is there some commitment from upstream on maintenance of old versions?
  4. Are new versions backwards-incompatible? meaning, if I was running 7.x and try to install 8.0, will that just work, or do I need to migrate my data/configuration, or will things break horribly?

Thanks!

  • Daniel