Month: December 2014

MySQL

Percona toolkit 2.2.12

Post author By Guillaume Plessis
Post date December 21, 2014

Percona toolkit 2.2.12 is now available on Dotdeb for both Debian 7 “Wheezy” and Debian 6 “Squeeze”. This release fixes 6 bugs and introduces a new feature in pt-stalk.

As usual, before upgrading, please read the list of changes for Percona toolkit 2.2.12 and the announcement by Hrvoje Matijakovic.

Tags MySQL, Percona Toolkit, release

Zabbix

Zabbix 2.2.8

Post author By Guillaume Plessis
Post date December 21, 2014

Zabbix 2.2.8 has been released on December 15th 2014. This release fixes known issues of Zabbix 2.2.x. Please read the release notes for more info.

As usual, the packages are now available :

for Debian 7.0 “Wheezy and 6.0 “Squeeze”,
on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

Tags monitoring, release, security, Zabbix

Redis

Redis 2.8.19

Redis 2.8.19 has been released on December 16th 2014, bringing small bug fixes.

The upgrade urgency is low for both Redis and Sentinel.

The packages are now available for both Debian 7 “Wheezy” and Debian 6 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

Tags Redis, release

PHP

PHP 5.4.36, for Wheezy and Squeeze

Post author By Guillaume Plessis
Post date December 20, 2014
3 Comments on PHP 5.4.36, for Wheezy and Squeeze

On December 18th 2014, the PHP group released PHP 5.4.36.

Two security-related bugs were fixed in this release, including the fix for CVE-2014-8142. All PHP 5.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb :

for Debian 7 “Wheezy” and Debian 6 “Squeeze”,
on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

The following modules have been packaged too :

APC 3.1.13
apcu 4.0.7
ffmpeg 0.6.0 (Squeeze only)
gearman 0.8.3
geoip 1.0.8
imagick 3.1.2
memcache 3.0.8
memcached 2.2.0
mongo 1.5.8
pecl_http 1.7.6
pinba (master)
redis 2.2.5
spplus 1.1
ssh2 0.12
xcache 3.2.0
xdebug 2.2.6
xhprof 0.9.4
zendopcache 7.0.3

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

Tags PHP, PHP5, release, security

PHP

PHP 5.5.20 for Wheezy

On December 18th 2014, the PHP group released PHP 5.5.20.

This release fixes several bugs and one CVE related to unserialization. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

PHP 5.5.20 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

The following modules have been packaged too :

apcu 4.0.7
gearman 0.8.3
geoip 1.0.8
imagick 3.1.2
memcache 3.0.8
memcached 2.2.0
mongo 1.5.8
pecl_http 1.7.6
pinba (master)
redis 2.2.5
spplus 1.1
ssh2 0.12
xcache 3.2.0
xdebug 2.2.6
xhprof 0.9.4

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

Tags PHP, PHP5, release, security

PHP

PHP 5.6.4 for Wheezy

On December 18th 2014, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.4.

Two security-related bugs were fixed in this release, including the fix for CVE-2014-8142. All PHP 5.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

PHP 5.6.4 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

Please also note these points :

Regression : php5-memcached lacks JSON support
Missing packages : Xcachen Xdebug and Xhprof are missing for now
End of support : Spplus won’t be supported anymore. Pinba’s fates hasn’t been decided yet.

As a consequence :

Don’t upgrade yet if you need missing features
For users upgrading from PHP 5.5, a full migration guide is available, detailing the changes between 5.5 and 5.6.0
The full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog
Your feedbacks are always welcome. Just make sure they are useful.

To install PHP 5.6 or to upgrade from previous version just follow the instructions.

Tags PHP, release, security