PHP 5.3.0 RC1 packages for Lenny
April 7th, 2009 | by Guillaume Plessis |A few days ago, the first release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 has been published by the PHP Group, providing many improvements :
- Namespaces support
- Late static binding
- MySQL native driver
- Phar support…
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.

6 Responses to “PHP 5.3.0 RC1 packages for Lenny”
By Guillaume Plessis on Apr 9, 2009 | Reply
I just uploaded new packages that fix a typo in the /etc/php5/conf.d/*.ini and that have mysql(nd)-related extensions that work.
By ElGigi on May 12, 2009 | Reply
PHP 5.3.0 RC2 has been published.
By Guillaume Plessis on May 12, 2009 | Reply
I’m working on it
By ElGigi on May 12, 2009 | Reply
Thanks
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Good job for DotDeb, very good service for Debian.
By Jason Morehouse on Jun 10, 2009 | Reply
oh – didn’t have shot tags enabled. bugger. ignore me.