Month: March 2013

Categories
Redis

Redis 2.6.12

Redis 2.6.12 has been released, bringing the following changes (take a look at the Changelog) :

  • [BUGFIX] redis-cli --bigkeys: don’t crash with empty DB.
  • [BUGFIX] stop-writes-on-bgsave-error now works in redis.conf
  • [BUGFIX] Don’t crash at startup if RDB is there but can’t be opened.
  • [BUGFIX] Initial value for master_link_down_since_seconds is now huge.
  • [BUGFIX] Allow SELECT while loading the DB.
  • [BUGFIX] Don’t replicate/AOF an empty MULTI/EXEC if the transaction is empty or containing just read-only commands.
  • [BUGFIX] EXPIRE should not be able to resurrect keys (see issue #1026).
  • [IMPROVED] Extended SET back ported from Redis 2.8 / unstable. See http://redis.io/commands/set for more information.
  • [IMPROVED] Test suite improved.

The upgrade urgency is moderate, nothing very critical but a few non trivial bugs.

The packages are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

Categories
MySQL

Percona toolkit 2.2.1

Percona toolkit 2.2.1 is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”. It supports MySQL 5.6 and Percona XtraDB Cluster, and brings some more changes :

  • pt-online-schema-change (pt-osc) is much more resilient
  • pt-upgrade is brand-new
  • pt-query-digest is simpler
  • Version check is on by default
  • pt-query-advisor, pt-tcp-model, pt-trend, and pt-log-player are gone
  • pt-stalk and pt-mysql-summary have built-in MySQL options
  • pt-stalk --no-stalk is no longer magical
  • pt-fk-error-logger and pt-deadlock-logger are standardized

As usual, please read the list of changes for Percona toolkit 2.2.1 before upgrading.

Categories
PHP

PHP 5.3.23

On March 14th 2013, the PHP group has released PHP 5.3.23.

These releases fix about 15 bugs, including fixes for CVE-2013-1643 and CVE-2013-1635. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.13.

The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures with the following changes :

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

Categories
PHP

PHP 5.4.13

On March 14th 2013, the PHP group has released PHP 5.4.13.

These releases fix about 15 bugs, including fixes for CVE-2013-1643 and CVE-2013-1635. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.13.

The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures with the following changes :

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

Note : PHP 5.3.23 packages will be available at the end of this week.

Categories
Redis

Redis 2.6.11

Redis 2.6.11 has been released, bringing the following changes (take a look at the Changelog) :

  • [BUGFIX] Replication: more strict error checking for master PING reply.
  • [BUGFIX] redis-cli: use keepalive socket option for improved reliability.
  • [BUGFIX] Allow AUTH while loading the DB in memory.
  • [BUGFIX] Don’t segfault on unbalanced quotes while parsing config file.
  • [IMPROVED] serverCron() frequency is now a runtime parameter (was REDIS_HZ).
  • [IMPROVED] Use a lot less CPU when idle, even with many configured DBs.

The upgrade urgency is low, however updating is encouraged if you have many instances per server and you want to lower the CPU / energy usage.

The packages are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

Categories
PHP

PHP 5.3.22

On february 21st 2013, the PHP group has released PHP 5.3.22.

This releases fix about 10 bugs. Beside that, all users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.12

The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. As usual, please read the ChangeLog before upgrading and be sure to use to the latest packages before reporting any issue.

Categories
PHP

PHP 5.4.12

On february 21st 2013, the PHP group has released PHP 5.4.12.

This releases fix about 10 bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.12

The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. As usual, please read the ChangeLog before upgrading and be sure to use to the latest packages before reporting any issue.

Note : PHP 5.3.22 packages will be available at the end of this week.