Changes in MySQL Enterprise Backup 8.1.0 (2023-07-18, Innovation Release)

MySQL Enterprise Backup 8.1.0 is the latest release for MySQL Enterprise Backup. It only supports MySQL Server 8.1.0. For MySQL 8.0, use the MySQL Enterprise Backup version with the same version number as the server. For MySQL Server 5.7, please use MySQL Enterprise Backup 4.1.

• Functionality Added or Changed

• Bugs Fixed

Functionality Added or Changed

• Important Change: For platforms on which OpenSSL libraries are bundled, the linked OpenSSL library for MySQL Enterprise Backup has been updated from OpenSSL 1.1.1 to OpenSSL 3.0. The exact version is now 3.0.9. More information on changes from 1.1.1 to 3.0 can be found at https://www.openssl.org/docs/man3.0/man7/migration_guide. html. (Bug #35475140)

• Binary packages that include curl rather than linking to the system curl library have been upgraded to use curl 8.1.1. (Bug #35329529)

Bugs Fixed

• Backing up using redo log archiving failed with a permission error when the OS user running mysqlbackup was a privileged user (for example, root). (Bug #34392456)