Month: March 2016

On March 3rd 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.5.33.

This is a security release in which two security bugs were fixed. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

PHP 5.5.33 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 1.6.11
• 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 before upgrading.

On March 3rd 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.19.

This is a security release in which several security bugs were fixed. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

PHP 5.6.19 packages are now available for Debian 7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures, in ZTS and non-ZTS (default) flavors, along with the usual PECL extensions.

On March 3rd 2016, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.4.

This is a security release. Several security bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

Packages of PHP 7.0.4 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures.

Please note that :

• PHP 7 and PHP 5 from Jessie are now co-installable on the same machine
• Packages of the following PECL extensions are now available : APCu, APCu_bc, igbinary, imagick, memcached, mongodb, msgpack, redis and xdebug. Careful, PHP 7 support from some of them is still very young.
• the memcached.serializer is now igbinary by default. You should change it back to php if you’re upgrading from a previous version.
• The thread-safe version of all these packages will be published soon.

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