On August 18th, the PHP Group released PHP 5.3.7 with many security enhancements and many bugfixes. Sadly, it suffered from an issue with the crypt() function , forcing the PHP Group to publish PHP 5.3.8 (that fixes a mysqlnd issue with SSL connections too).

I’m glad too announce that PHP 5.3.8 packages are now available on Dotdeb for both amd64 and i386 architectures :

  • for Debian 6.0 Squeeze : on the main Dotdeb repository
  • for Debian 5.0 “Lenny” : on php53.dotdeb.org

Ugrading to PHP 5.3.8 is strongly recommended, but please read the Changelog before.