PHP 5.2.10 packages for Lenny/Etch are now available!

June 25th, 2009

A few days ago, the PHP development team announced the availability of PHP 5.2.10 with many improvements and 100+ bug fixes. Here is the Changelog.

Now that the corresponding Suhosin patch is alive, the PHP 5.2.10 packages are available on Dotdeb :

  • for Debian Lenny and Etch
  • for the amd64 and i386 architectures

Upgrading your servers is highly recommanded.

Update : The PHP 5.2.10 packages seem to be buggy under (un)certain conditions : (f)CGI + Suhosin.
Then I decided to rollback to 5.2.9 to avoid a flood a users’ requests and to give me time to investigate. If your PHP 5.2.10 does not encounter problems, keep it, you’re lucky :)

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PHP 5.3.0 RC4 available

June 22nd, 2009

From PHP.net :

The PHP development team is proud to announce the fourth release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 (PHP 5.3.0RC4). This RC focuses on bug fixes and stability improvements, and we hope only minimal changes are required for the next candidate or final stable releases. PHP 5.3.0 is a newly developed version of PHP featuring long-awaited features like namespaces, late static binding, closures and much more.

Please download and test these release candidates, and report any issues found. A stable release is expected next week . In case of critical issues we will continue producing weekly RCs. Downloads and further information is available at qa.php.net. See also the work in progress 5.3 upgrade guide.

The preview packages for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” on amd64 and i386 has been updated. Just apt-get upgrade.

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Google Perftools 1.3 available for Lenny

June 16th, 2009

Do you remember how to speed up your MySQL server using the Google Perftools? It seems that the amd64 flavour of these libraries makes MySQL crash.

I just bumped the version of the google-perftools packages for Lenny from 1.0 to 1.3. According to the Changelog they’re bringing a lot of bugfixes and improvements, and then enhance the stability of the daemons they’re plugged in.

Upgrading is highly recommended.

Update : The packages are now available for Etch.

Update #2 : Please desactivate the Google Perftools 1.3! They’re crashing MySQL. I’m rolling back to the old version (Etch : 0.98, Lenny : 1.0) until I fix (or Google) fix this issue. Really sorry for the mess…

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PHP 5.3.0 RC3 packages for Lenny

June 16th, 2009

The third (and probably the last) release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 has been published by the PHP Group a few days ago. Then I updated the preview packages for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” on amd64 and i386.

To fetch them, just add these temporary entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list and upgrade your boxes :

deb http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all
deb-src http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all

Please note that an upgrade guide is being written. You also may want to visit this page.

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PHP 5.3.0 RC2 packages for Lenny

May 13th, 2009

A few days ago, the second release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 has been published by the PHP Group.

I just updated the preview packages for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” on amd64 and i386. Have fun!

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MySQL 5.0.81 is now available (for Etch only)

May 6th, 2009

On May 1st, MySQL 5.0.81 has been published with a lot of bugfixes.

If you’re still using Etch, the corresponding packages are now available for i386 and amd64.

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What to expect from MySQL 5.4?

April 23rd, 2009

MySQL 5.4 has been announced at the opening session of MySQL Conference 2009 and a preview is available for download. This release may look as a compromise between the current 5.1 and the major 6.0 branches, but it includes many (IMHO needed) improvements :

  • Sub-query optimizations
  • A new query algorythms
  • Replication killer features : replication heartbeat and semi-synchronous replication!
  • Google SMP patch (even for Solaris x86 and Sparc) and IO patches
  • Update of many antiquated defaults in the MySQL Server (like replication-related –master-host and so on…)
  • InnoDB improvements (such as scalability up to 16way x86 and up to 64way CMT servers)
  • A couple of performance fixes backported from 6.0
  • Dtrace integration on supported OSes

The results? 59% faster than 5.1, 40% improvement in read/write test, 71% throughput increase!

For more info, read “A Quick Look at MySQL 5.4″.

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Built from the Valley, MySQL 5.1.34 is available

April 22nd, 2009

Blogging and building live from MySQL Conf 09… If you want more details about what happens here (technical sessions, MySQL 5.4, InnoDB improvements, MySQL Cluster, Sun/Oracle fusion…) or want to enjoy a drink in the Valley, please let me know…

MySQL Conf 09

credits : Duncan Davidson

Back to the Dotdeb business : MySQL 5.1.34 has been published with its lot of bugfixes. It is now built and available on Dotdeb for your Lenny/Etch amd64/i386 Debian servers. No change in the packaging, just apt-get upgrade…

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Minor update of the PHP 5.2.9 packages

April 9th, 2009

The PHP 5.2.9 packages for Etch/Lenny amd64/i386 have been updated :

  • some obsolete ./configure options have been deleted
  • the sigchild support has been dropped
  • a memory leak has been fixed

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PHP 5.3.0 RC1 packages for Lenny

April 7th, 2009

A few days ago, the first release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 has been published by the PHP Group, providing many improvements :

I just built the packages for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” on amd64 and i386 and I will maintain them during the whole release cycle (RC2 and so on…).

Please note that they should NOT be installed on production servers : Suhosin and some important patches are not applied, PECL extensions are not available (yet)… They’re here for testing purpose only.

To fetch them, just add these temporary entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list and upgrade your instances :

deb http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all
deb-src http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all

But please DO read the full announcement before any further move.

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