Category: PHP

On March 31st 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.20.

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

PHP 5.6.20 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 31st 2016, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.5.

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 7.0.5 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, geoip, igbinary, imagick, memcached, mongodb, msgpack, redis and xdebug. Careful, PHP 7 support from some of them is still very young.
• The thread-safe version of all these packages will be published soon.

As usual :

• your feedbacks are always welcome. Just make sure they are useful.
• feel free to show your support, it is always greatly appreciated… 🙂

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.

As usual :

• your feedbacks are always welcome. Just make sure they are useful.
• feel free to show your support, it is always greatly appreciated… 🙂

On February 4th 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.18.

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

PHP 5.6.18 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 February 4th 2016, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.3.

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 7.0.3 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.

As usual :

• your feedbacks are always welcome. Just make sure they are useful.
• feel free to show your support, it is always greatly appreciated… 🙂

On January 7th 2016, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.2.

31 reported bugs has been fixed, including 6 security related issues. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

Packages of PHP 7.0.2 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures.

Please note that :

• You should remove any PHP5 packages before upgrading
• Packages of the PECL extensions (Memcache, Memcached, Mongo, Redis, Xdebug…) are still missing.
• The thread-safe version of all these packages will be published soon.

Please make sure that you understand the above PHP/Debian/Dotdeb changes and that you don’t need any of the missing features/packages. Your feedbacks are always welcome. Just make sure they are useful.

These packages have been published on the main repository for Jessie because they have new names because they shouldn’t conflict with any PHP5 installation. So to get PHP 7.0.2 , just follow the regular instructions for Jessie.

And as usual, feel free to show your support, it is always greatly appreciated… 🙂

On January 7th 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.17.

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

PHP 5.6.17 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.