percona · alina-derkach-oaza · Dec 17, 2025 · Dec 10, 2025 · Dec 16, 2025 · Dec 17, 2025
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/8.4.0-5.md b/docs/release-notes/8.4.0-5.md
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Percona XtraBackup 8.4.0-5 (2025-12-17)
+
+Get started with [Quickstart Guide for Percona XtraBackup].
+
+## Release highlights
+
+Announcement – Discontinuation of the Percona PRO Program
+
+Percona has consolidated its build offerings. The Pro builds are no longer required. All features from the Percona XtraBackup 8.4.x Pro build series have been merged into the main open source Community release. The [Reduced backup lock time](https://docs.percona.com/percona-xtrabackup/8.4/reduction-in-locks.html) feature, originally introduced in [Percona XtraBackup Pro 8.4.0-2](./release-notes/8.4.0-2.md) for Pro builds, is now included in the Community release starting with Percona XtraBackup 8.4.0-5.
+
+We recommend that you download the Percona XtraBackup for the same platform as the MySQL-compatible server. For example, if your server is on an ARM64 platform, you should download and use the Percona XtraBackup for ARM64 for that operating system.
+
+## Improvement
+
+[PXB-2724](https://perconadev.atlassian.net/browse/PXB-2724): The `--move-back` option was not applied when restoring RocksDB files, causing the restore process to always perform a file copy instead of moving the files back to their original location.
+
+## Bug fix
+
+[PXB-3624](https://perconadev.atlassian.net/browse/PXB-3624): Fixed an issue where `xbcloud` could exit because `libcurl` attempted to use a `libev` event loop after it had already been shut down. `xbcloud` will throw a warning with libcurl `8.11.x` versions and may still exit due to [CVE-2025-0665](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cc57-hgv8-p56r). The issue is resolved in libcurl `8.12.0` and later.
+
+
+## Packaging and build notes
+
+* Percona XtraBackup 8.4 adds support for Debian 13.
+
+* Percona XtraBackup 8.4 has ended support for Ubuntu 20.04.
+
+## Additional resources
+
+Install [Percona XtraBackup 8.4.0-5](..//installation.md)
+
+The [Percona XtraBackup GitHub repository](https://github.com/percona/percona-xtrabackup)
+
+Download product binaries, packages, and tarballs at [Percona Product Downloads](https://www.percona.com/downloads)
+
+[Quickstart Guide for Percona XtraBackup]: ..//quickstart-overview.md
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Percona XtraBackup {{vers}} release notes index
 
+* [Percona XtraBackup 8.4.0-5 (2025-12-17)](8.4.0-5.md)
+
 * [Percona XtraBackup 8.4.0-4 (2025-08-21)](8.4.0-4.md)
 
 * [Percona XtraBackup 8.4.0-3 (2025-05-29)](8.4.0-3.md)

diff --git a/docs/templates/pdf_cover_page.tpl b/docs/templates/pdf_cover_page.tpl
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
 {% if config.site_description %}
 <h1>{{ config.site_description }}</h1>
 {% endif %} 
-<h2>8.4.0-4 (August 21, 2025)</h2>
+<h2>8.4.0-5 (December 17, 2025)</h2>
 <!--<h3>Percona Technical Documentation Team</h3>-->
diff --git a/mkdocs-base.yml b/mkdocs-base.yml
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ nav:
   - get-help.md
   - Release notes:
     - Release notes index: release-notes/release-notes.md
+    - release-notes/8.4.0-5.md
     - release-notes/8.4.0-4.md
     - release-notes/8.4.0-3.md
     - release-notes/8.4.0-2.md

diff --git a/variables.yml b/variables.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # variables for HTML output
 
-release: '8.4.0-4'
+release: '8.4.0-5'
 version: '8.4'
 vers: '8.4' # is used in links and to specify a product version
 pkg: 'pxb-84-lts'
-release-date: '2025-08-21'
-title_date: '2025-08-21'
-amzn: '8.4.0-4.1.amzn2023'
+release-date: '2025-12-17'
+title_date: '2025-12-17'
+amzn: '8.4.0-5.1.amzn2023'