On September 18th 2014, the PHP group released PHP 5.5.17.

Several bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

PHP 5.5.17 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.6 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

The following modules have been packaged too :

  • apcu 4.0.6
  • gearman 0.8.3
  • geoip 1.0.8
  • imagick 3.1.2
  • memcache 3.0.8
  • memcached 2.2.0
  • mongo 1.5.7
  • pecl_http 1.7.6
  • pinba (master)
  • redis 2.2.5
  • spplus 1.1
  • ssh2 0.12
  • xcache 3.2.0
  • xdebug 2.2.5
  • xhprof 0.9.4

Please read the Changelog and the migration guide (be aware of the backward incompatible changes) before upgrading.