Archive for December, 2008
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
MySQL AB has just made MySQL 5.0.75 available. Even it is just a maintenance release - since the 5.1 branch is now golden - it is now packaged and uploaded to Dotdeb for Etch amd64/i386.
Anyway, if you did not make the jump and still use MySQL 5.0, please upgrade your ...
Posted in MySQL | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
The PHP Group released PHP 5.2.8 this morning to fix the magic_quotes_gpc issue.
If you previously installed PHP 5.2.7-0.dotdeb.1 from Dotdeb and do not care about the version number displayed in your phpinfo(), save your bandwidth, your server is already secure :) Otherwise, just apt-get upgrade your LAMP stack...
[update] The packages have ...
Posted in PHP | 44 Comments »
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Stefan Esser has posted a warning about upgrading PHP to the 5.2.7 release :
(...)a change in the ext/filter extension that by default processes all incoming data, broke the magic_quotes_gpc feature. While magic_quotes_gpc itself is deprecated and it is recommended to not rely on it as protection against SQL injection, it is ...
Posted in PHP | 12 Comments »
Friday, December 5th, 2008
From PHP.net :
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediateavailability of PHP 5.2.7. This release focuses on improving the stability ofthe PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related.All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.
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Further details about the PHP ...
Posted in PHP | 6 Comments »