PHP 5.4.4

June 22, 2012 · Guillaume Plessis

On june 14th 2012, the PHP group has released PHP 5.4.4, that brings over 30 bug fixes, some of which are security related : A weakness in the DES implementation of crypt and a heap overflow issue in the phar extension. Please also note that the use of php://fd streams is now restricted to the CLI SAPI ( php5-cli).

Packages of PHP 5.4.4 are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures (see the installation instructions).

As usual, please read the ChangeLog before upgrading and be sure to use to the latest packages before reporting any issue.

Shin Muhammad June 22, 2012
I was trying to install php5-memcached with squeeze and got following result:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-memcached : Depends: libmemcached9 but it is not installable E: Broken packages
when I checked at debian, this package is only available in sid, hurd-i386.
Can you resolve this?
Guillaume Plessis June 22, 2012
@Shin Muhammad : the PHP 5.4.4 memcached package depends on libmemcached10, that is available. You can resolve your issue by updating your packages list (apt-get update or equivalent)
Shin Muhammad June 22, 2012
thanks for the resolve :)
Yakov June 23, 2012
Still no Suhosin, yeah?
Guillaume Plessis June 24, 2012
@Yakov : no news.
Mario Vazquez June 24, 2012
php5-mysqlnd is not installing:
Unpacking php5-mysqlnd (from …/php5-mysqlnd_5.4.4-2~~dotdeb.0_i386.deb) … Processing triggers for php5-fpm … Restarting PHP5 FastCGI Process Manager: php5-fpm. Setting up php5-mysqlnd (5.4.4-2~~dotdeb.0) … ucfr: Attempt from package php5-mysqlnd to take /etc/php5/mods-available/mysql.ini away from package php5-mysql ucfr: Aborting. dpkg: error processing php5-mysqlnd (–configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4 Processing triggers for php5-fpm … configured to not write apport reports Restarting PHP5 FastCGI Process Manager: php5-fpm. Errors were encountered while processing: php5-mysqlnd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
tux June 24, 2012
I think that you should purge php5-mysql package first and then install php5-mysqlnd package.
alippai June 25, 2012
I can’t find the package php5-xhprof. I think it should be packaged in the repository.
Guillaume Plessis June 25, 2012
@alippai : xhprof is not compatible with PHP 5.4 yet.
Johny June 26, 2012
If in this package Memcache extension and Bundled GD extension?? Because if i check phpinfo() i can not find something about this packages?? THX
erik June 26, 2012
php5-apc 3.1.9 is not fully supported with php 5.4. Can you use version 3.1.10 instead? TNX
Guillaume Plessis June 26, 2012
@erik : php5-apc contains APC 3.1.10. It show as 3.1.9 in phpinfo() because the developers forgot to increase the revision number, don’t worry.
Guillaume Plessis June 26, 2012
@Johny : are the corresponding .ini file present in /etc/php5/conf.d/ with such a content?
extension=gd.so
T. J. Brumfield June 26, 2012
I just discovered this repository and I’m excited to try out the packages. I want to build and test a current/bleeding edge web server for optimal performance, and to stay ahead of exploits.
I choose Debian because I heard they are literally the only distro that has an Apache 2.4 package at all, which they have in experimental. But I’m not seeing packages anywhere for libapache2-mod-fcgid or libapache2-mod-php5 that will work with Apache 2.4.
Is that something you’d consider adding to your repository?
Likewise, I believe openssl needs to be updated for Apache 2.4.
Guillaume Plessis June 26, 2012
@T. J. Brumfield : sorry, no plan for Apache 2.4.
T. J. Brumfield June 26, 2012
Also, I have the PHP 5.4 packages installed from SID/Unstable. Since adding this repository, it now tells me that my previously installed packages of php5-imagick php5-memcache and php5-suhosin have unmet dependencies.
How would I switch my PHP packages from SID/Unstable to the ones in this repository?
bash July 3, 2012
Hi, i’ve installed php 5.4.4 and all other softwares latest, from here… But i use SCI Liberty Reserve auto payment, and its not working, u can make the transfer, the payment come to my acct, but not reflect in the website to user’s balance, can you help me? Thanks
Chris July 5, 2012
i try to install memcached : apt-get install php5-memcached
but i found an error : php5-memcached : Dépend: php5-common (= 5.4.4-2~dotdeb.0) mais 5.4.4-2 devra être installé
i try to purge php5-common and re-install, but i got same error… plz help :-(
- Guillaume Plessis July 10, 2012
  @Chris : don’t use Dotdeb on something else than Debian stable. It appears that you’re using testing/unstable that provides more recent PHP 5.4 packages.
David July 10, 2012
I’m having an issue installing php5-mysqlnd. I purged php5-mysql and double checked that /etc/php5/mods-available and /etc/php5/conf.d did not contain any mysql .conf files.
Setting up php5-mysqlnd (5.4.4-2~dotdeb.0) … Not replacing deleted config file /etc/php5/mods-available/mysqlnd.ini Not replacing deleted config file /etc/php5/mods-available/mysqlnd.ini ERROR: /etc/php5/mods-available/mysqlnd.ini does not exist
David July 10, 2012
Here’s the full aptitude output:
Selecting previously deselected package php5-mysqlnd. (Reading database … 39201 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking php5-mysqlnd (from …/php5-mysqlnd_5.4.4-2~~dotdeb.0_amd64.deb) … Processing triggers for php5-fpm … Restarting PHP5 FastCGI Process Manager: php5-fpm. Setting up php5-mysqlnd (5.4.4-2~~dotdeb.0) … Not replacing deleted config file /etc/php5/mods-available/mysqlnd.ini Not replacing deleted config file /etc/php5/mods-available/mysqlnd.ini ERROR: /etc/php5/mods-available/mysqlnd.ini does not exist dpkg: error processing php5-mysqlnd (–configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Processing triggers for php5-fpm … configured to not write apport reports Restarting PHP5 FastCGI Process Manager: php5-fpm. Errors were encountered while processing: php5-mysqlnd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up php5-mysqlnd (5.4.4-2~dotdeb.0) … Not replacing deleted config file /etc/php5/mods-available/mysqlnd.ini Not replacing deleted config file /etc/php5/mods-available/mysqlnd.ini ERROR: /etc/php5/mods-available/mysqlnd.ini does not exist dpkg: error processing php5-mysqlnd (–configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Processing triggers for php5-fpm … Restarting PHP5 FastCGI Process Manager: php5-fpm. Errors were encountered while processing: php5-mysqlnd
David July 10, 2012
I found a solution here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444076
It appears that either php5-mysql didn’t purge correctly, or a previous attempt at installing php5-mysqlnd didn’t purge correctly. To get a proper install, I ran: ucf –purge /etc/php5/mods-available/mysql.ini ucf –purge /etc/php5/mods-available/mysqli.ini ucf –purge /etc/php5/mods-available/pdo_mysql.ini ucf –purge /etc/php5/mods-available/mysqlnd.ini
- Guillaume Plessis July 10, 2012
  @David : Sorry for the mess and thanks for the hint.
Gustav August 1, 2012
@Chris @Guillaume Plessis I have the same problem and i’m using debian stable, I think.
The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-memcache : Depends: php5-common (= 5.3.15-1~dotdeb.0) but 5.4.4-3 is to be installed
Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Gustav August 1, 2012
I downgraded to have php5-memcache working again. apt-get install php5-common=5.3.15-1~~dotdeb.0 php5-memcache=5.3.15-1~~dotdeb.0
Guillaume Plessis August 1, 2012
@Gustav : wrong, you seem to have Debian Sid in your sources.list. Its 5.4.4 packages will be installed instead of Dotdeb’s PHP 5.3 ones.
Gustav August 1, 2012
Yeah, you are right. I checked this twice but still there was this file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sid.list. I never added that one for sure. Thanks alot! I give it another try.
zeflasher August 5, 2012
Just to thank you for this post… Went almost like a brieze (pb with xdebug failing to find the module giving an error when updating as the old path to the .so hasn’t been updated when the first upgrade failed).
Thx again!!!!
Pawel January 15, 2014
apt-get install php5-memcached
Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-memcached : Depends: libmemcached10 but it is not installable E: Broken packages
Seems like it does not work under Debian 6.0 and php54 repositories apt-get update did not help ?
- Guillaume Plessis January 15, 2014
  @Pawel : did you add these two lines in your sources.list?
```
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze-php54 all
```
  The first repo contains libmemcached, the second PHP 5.4.
  - Vladimir May 29, 2014
    I’m having the same issues. Debian squeeze, and yes, both of the lines are in repo, and I’ve ran apt-get update…
    apt-get install php5-memcached Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
    The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-memcached : Depends: libmemcached10 but it is not installable Depends: libmemcachedutil2 but it is not installable E: Broken packages

apt-get install php5-memcached