Month: May 2015

Categories
PHP

PHP 5.4.41, for Wheezy and Squeeze

On May 14th 2015, the PHP group released PHP 5.4.41.

Seven security-related issues were fixed in this version. 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 1.6.8
  • pecl_http 1.7.6
  • pinba (master)
  • redis 2.2.7
  • spplus 1.1
  • ssh2 0.12
  • xcache 3.2.0
  • xdebug 2.3.2
  • xhprof 0.9.4
  • zendopcache 7.0.5

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

Categories
PHP

PHP 5.5.25 for Wheezy

On May 14th 2015, the PHP group released PHP 5.5.25.

Several bugs have been fixed. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

PHP 5.5.25 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 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 1.6.8
  • pecl_http 1.7.6
  • pinba (master)
  • redis 2.2.7
  • spplus 1.1
  • ssh2 0.12
  • xcache 3.2.0
  • xdebug 2.3.2
  • xhprof 0.9.4

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

Categories
PHP

PHP 5.6.9 for Wheezy

On May 14th 2015, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.9.

Several bugs have been fixed. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

PHP 5.6.9 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures, in ZTS and non-ZTS (default) flavors.

Notes :

  • Regression : php5-memcached still lacks JSON support
  • Xcache, Xdebug and Xhprof are currently being worked on and should be available soon
Categories
Nginx

Nginx 1.8.0

Nginx 1.8.0 has been released on April 21th 2015.

This is the first version of the new 1.8.x stable branch, incorporating many new features from the 1.7.x mainline branch – including hash load balancing method, backend SSL certificate verification, experimental thread pools support, proxy_request_buffering and more.

Packages of Nginx 1.8.0 are now available

  • for Debian 8 “Jessie”, Debian 7 “Wheezy” and Debian 6 “Squeeze”
  • on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

with the following changes :

  • because Passenger 3.x isn’t compatible with Nginx 1.8, nginx-passenger isn’t available for Squeeze anymore
  • Logging to Syslog is now supported upstream
  • ngxensite and ngxdissite scripts have been replaced by ngx-conf (take a look at its -e and -d options)
  • Default config files has been synced with both upstream and Debian versions. Please review them systematically when upgrading
  • Thread pools support has been enabled in every Nginx flavor
  • All the modules have been updated to their latest version

For more details about which modules are included in the different Nginx flavors, just have to look at this document.

Categories
Redis

Redis 3.0.1

Redis 3.0.1 has been released on May 5th 2015, bringing a few bug fixes.

The upgrade urgency is low for Redis and Cluster, moderate for Sentinel.

The packages are now available :

  • for Debian 8 “Jessie”, Debian 7 “Wheezy” and Debian 6 “Squeeze”
  • on both amd64 and i386 architectures.