PHP 5.4.7 and PHP 5.3.17

September 16, 2012 · Guillaume Plessis

On september 13th 2012, the PHP group has released PHP 5.4.7 and PHP 5.3.17, that bring ~20 bug fixes.

The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures with the following changes :

php5-suhosin is not a recommendation from php5-common anymore.
php5-xcache now includes the admin web interface files (closes #10).
php5-apc includes APC 3.1.13 for PHP 5.4, and has been rollbacked to APC 3.1.9 for PHP 5.3 for more stability.

About the PHP-FPM and APC issues, the packages include all that has been committed/released about the many bug reports on these subjects. I’m still watching any activity that would allow me to provide better packages.

As usual, please read the ChangeLog before upgrading and be sure to use to the latest packages before reporting any issue.

Michael September 16, 2012
Hello,
I just upgraded to 5.3.17. Like in 5.3.16 and 5.3.15 I have segmentation faults when using xcache PHP module in combination with ionCubeLoader PHP module. 5.3.14 is not affected. Without xcache PHP module everything works also fine in 5.3.17.
Best wishes Michael
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hanti September 16, 2012
The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-suhosin : Depends: php5-common (= 5.3.17-1~~dotdeb.0) but 5.4.7-1~~dotdeb.0 is to be installed E: Broken packages
- Guillaume Plessis September 16, 2012
  @hanti : as said many time on this blog, php5-suhosin is not available for PHP 5.4. Uninstall it before upgrading.
hanti September 16, 2012
oh i forgot about that really sorry
Michael Lednev September 19, 2012
Anyone experiencing strange hangs on restart when using pspell module? 5.3.17
- Andreas Pollak September 30, 2012
  Since 5.3.17 I had to killall -9 php5-fpm… to restart php5-fpm. After commenting out pspell module, it´s working fine now!
Hans van Eijsden September 21, 2012
Thank you for all the great work you do and have done, Guillaume.
I use your PHP 5.3.17 on Debian Squeeze 64bit with Apache Worker and FastCGI (via Varnish and mod_pagespeed), but your downgraded APC version gave me big problems with Wordpress and W3 Total Cache. About 3 to 10 times an hour, the user cache became empty and my site became slow.
I didn’t find any info in the apache error logs, so I decided to uninstall php5-apc. And… I installed apc-beta via pecl, version 3.1.13 (the newest).
Now everything is well and my site is fast again.
- Guillaume Plessis September 21, 2012
  @Hans van Eijsden : sorry for your issue with APC 3.1.9. I decided to downgrade because too many users complained about the FPM + APC 3.1.3 combination. Conservative move :)
  If you want to packages APC 3.1.3 by yourself instead of installing it via pecl, take a look at this how to : /2008/09/25/how-to-package-php-extensions-by-yourself/
Hans van Eijsden September 21, 2012
Hey that’s great, I will do that! Thank you for your quick reply. Have a nice weekend! :)
Tiago September 22, 2012
I tried to update my php version 5.3.3 for the current but managed only 5.3.17. I would like to update to version 5.4.7. ’m doing something wrong? sources.list: deb http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/dotdeb/ squeeze-php54 all deb-src http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/dotdeb/ squeeze-php54 all
apt-get update
Hit http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net squeeze-php54 Release.gpg Ign http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/dotdeb/ squeeze-php54/all Translation-en Hit http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net squeeze-php54 Release Hit http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net squeeze-php54/all Sources Hit http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net squeeze-php54/all amd64 Packages Reading package lists… Done
apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done The following packages have been kept back: libapache2-mod-php5 php-pear php5 php5-cgi php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-sqlite php5-xsl 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
- Guillaume Plessis September 22, 2012
  @Tiago : try to use a more verbose package manager (dselect, aptitude, synaptic) to know what prevents the PHP upgrade (a broken dependency or a missing package, for example). Don’t hesitate to tell me more about it.
faulty September 22, 2012
I’m using the lemp from https://github.com/aatishnn/lempstack/ and have been experiencing php-fpm hung issue on 5.3.15, 5.3.16 and 5.3.17. I was hoping 5.3.17 would have fixed the issue, but sadly, it didn’t
Joe Auty September 23, 2012
Do you guys still recommend installing the Suhosin plugin for PHP 5.3.x? Will it ever be supported in 5.4.x, or has it been abandoned or something?
- Guillaume Plessis September 23, 2012
  @Joe Auty : don’t install php5-suhosin if you don’t need its functions. About the PHP 5.4 compatibility, its development has kinda been stalled, so its inclusion is not granted for sure.
Roland Franssen September 23, 2012
Is it possible to install php5-intl with libicu48? It currently depends on libicu44 :/
SonicGD September 24, 2012
There are problem with php5-xhprof package:
Настраивается пакет php5-xhprof (5.4.7-1~dotdeb.0) … /var/lib/dpkg/info/php5-xhprof.postinst: 22: local: not in a function
- David Goodwin September 30, 2012
  I see the same problem(s) with php5-xdebug -
  etting up php5-xdebug (5.4.7-1~dotdeb.0) … /var/lib/dpkg/info/php5-xdebug.postinst: line 22: local: can only be used in a function dpkg: error processing php5-xdebug (–configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  My fix was to edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/php5-xdebug.postinst and remove the ’local’ keyword on lines 22 and 23; then it was happy.
  I suspect this is due to me still using bash as my /bin/sh symlink, while perhaps the packager is using dash or something else?
Julien September 26, 2012
Bonjour,
J’ai installé Nginx avec php en mode php-fpm (sur une Debian 6), et ajouté quelques vhosts avec les pools php correspondants.
Lorsque je lance php-fpm : /etc/init.d/php5-fpm start
Le processus se lance, ça à l’air de fonctionner (les scripts php sont bien interprétés sur les différents vhosts).
Mais par contre la console ne me rend pas la main, je suis obligé de lancer une autre console.
Je me suis fait un petit script pour créer un nouveau vhost dans Nginx, puis le pool php correspondant, et à la fin, je “reload” Nginx et “restart” php-fpam avec /etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart
puis au bout d’un certain temps, j’obtiens : Restarting PHP5 FastCGI Process Manager: php5-fpm failed!
Je suis obligé de killer les processus php5-fpm (killall -9 php5-fpm) pour refaire un /etc/init.d/php5-fpm start
Où on repars à la problématique du début mais au moins les scripts php fonctionnent.
Si je regarde les logs d’erreur de php-fpm, j’ai pourtant ça lors d’un start :
[26-Sep-2012 00:31:24] NOTICE: configuration file /etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf test is successful
[26-Sep-2012 00:31:24] NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 2674 [26-Sep-2012 00:31:24] NOTICE: ready to handle connections
et ça lors d’un restart : [26-Sep-2012 00:42:02] NOTICE: Finishing … [26-Sep-2012 00:42:02] NOTICE: exiting, bye-bye!
Donc en résumé le start à bien l’air de démarrer les processus mais ne me rend pas la main et le restart stop les processus sans redémarrer (failed), je dois killer les processus et faire de nouveau un start…
Avez-vous une idée du pourquoi ?
Merci
- Guillaume Plessis September 26, 2012
  Bonjour Julien, c’est un des problèmes qui est en cours d’investigation sur FPM
  https://bugs.php.net/search.php?search_for=&boolean=0&limit=30&order_by=ts2&direction=DESC&cmd=display&status=All&bug_type=All&project=All&package_name%5B%5D=FPM+related&php_os=&phpver=&cve_id=&assign=&author_email=&bug_age=0&bug_updated=0
  Pardon pour ce désagrément, je sortirai un correctif dès que le PHP Group bougera.
Julien September 26, 2012
Merci pour l’info et la réactivité ;)
Mikl September 26, 2012
impossible de mettre à jour la version de mon lamp dotdeb, maintenant j’ai toujours ce message:
php5 (5.4.4-5) unstable; urgency=low
- As a security measure the default configuration for Apache 2 has been changed to a stricter model. Only files which have the correct rightmost extension, and at least one character in the filename before that extension, are now interpreted by PHP. For a full list of handled extensions please see the Apache 2 configuration. At the time of writing this paragraph, the list includes the following regular expressions:
  1. .+.ph(p[345]?|t|tml)$ for PHP files (application/x-httpd-php)
  2. .+.phps$ for PHP source files (application/x-httpd-php-source)
  Previously, as a side effect of system MIME type definitions, the default configuration would allow the interpreting of files with a double extension, where the second extension was either unrecognised or a language or content encoding to be interpreted; e.g. an uploaded file named blackhat.php.foobar or index.php.cs would be interpreted by PHP. These non-standard definitions have been removed from the mime-support packages and all configuration of PHP handlers is now defined in the Apache 2 configuration files.
  The standard configuration now also denies access to files with names which consist of an extension and nothing more; e.g. accessing ‘/.php’ will now return Access Denied instead of the output of the PHP script.
  You can use the following command to find whether there are any files on your system which would be affected by this change (change to the directory name where you store PHP files on your system):
  find -name ‘.ph[pt].’ -o -name ‘.php[345s].’ -o \
```
          -name '*.phtml.*' -o -name '.ph[pt]' -o \
          -name '.php[345s]' -o -name '.phtml'
```
– Ond?ej Surý Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:14:47 +0200
- Guillaume Plessis September 27, 2012
  @Mikl : quand est-ce que ce message apparait? C’est un extrait de README, qui n’influence en rien le lancement de Apache. Libre à toi d’adopter ou non la configuration recommandée.
  - mikl September 27, 2012
    j’ai ce message dès que je lance un aptitude upgrade…, comment je peux regler ce problème ? merci d’avance Guillaume
    - Guillaume Plessis September 27, 2012
      @mikl : je n’utilise pas aptitude et ne connait pas ses subtilités (affiche-t-il le contenu du README là où d’autre frontons comme dselect passent leur chemin?). Bref, tente un “apt-get upgrade” à la place.
      - mikl September 27, 2012
        ah oui tiens, ca fonctionne directement avec apt… merci pour tout ;)
Javier October 1, 2012
So its on php 5.4.7 version suhosin is not available, i was wondering which is the substitute to encruise max_input_vars or how is the way to make it…. regards
- Guillaume Plessis October 1, 2012
  @Javier : I don’t really get your question. FYI max_input_vars is available in the PHP core as of PHP 5.3.9. No need for Suhosin here
Alexander October 3, 2012
I was trying to install php 5.4 on Debian Squeeze. But debian said to me that php5-cli depends on libonig2 and libgdbm14, but both of this packages are unavailable to install, im confused with it, and dont know how to fix this problem, can someone help me?
- Guillaume Plessis October 3, 2012
  @Alexander : feel free to follow these instructions to help us understanding the cause of your issue
  /2012/08/24/how-to-post-useful-bug-reports/
Alexander October 3, 2012
Okay, sorry.
Distro: Debian 6.0 Squeeze i386 PHP Version: none, yet sources.list (sources.list.d have same content): deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze-php54 all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze-php54 all
dpkg -l ‘php*’ | grep ‘^.i’: No packages found matching php*
Bug description: i was trying to ‘aptitude install php5-cli php5-common php5-fpm php5-cgi’: The following NEW packages will be installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 11.0 MB of archives. After unpacking 33.2 MB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-cgi: Depends: libonig2 (>= 5.2.0) which is a virtual package. Depends: libqdbm14 (>= 1.8.74) which is a virtual package. php5-cli: Depends: libonig2 (>= 5.2.0) which is a virtual package. Depends: libqdbm14 (>= 1.8.74) which is a virtual package. php5-fpm: Depends: libonig2 (>= 5.2.0) which is a virtual package. Depends: libqdbm14 (>= 1.8.74) which is a virtual package. The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
```
 Keep the following packages at their current version
```
1. ```
php5-cgi [Not Installed]
```
2. ```
php5-cli [Not Installed]
```
3. ```
php5-fpm [Not Installed]
```
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
Obviuosly such a solution doesn’t suit me. Don’t know what to do.
- Alexander October 3, 2012
  Uh, i solve that problem just by adding the ‘deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian squeeze main’ to /etc/apt/sources.list. Stupid mistake :)
  - Guillaume Plessis October 3, 2012
    @Alexander : no problem :) I hope you’ll enjoy the Dotdeb packages.
Antony October 4, 2012
Hi, Been setting up a new server that is going be exposed to heavy load, so I’ve been testing php5-fpm (debian squeeze). I was having issues with system V start stop script hanging (stop would need a kill -9 on the main process, start would need a kill on the calling process). Part from that the pools where working fine. After testing different things I finely spotted that adding in the pool definition file the chdir definition seemed to have sorted the problem chdir = /
If this can help someone else having a similar issue….
Thanks guys for all your work :) Have a nice day!
- Antony October 4, 2012
  sorry… but this didn’t stop the problem for more than 5 min…. problem is now back. Going to make a better description of my issue this afternoon…
- Guillaume Plessis October 4, 2012
  @Antony : this is a known problem with the last two PHP releases.
  https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62886
  Hopefully, according to Git and to bugs.php.net, most of the FPM and APC bugs may be fixed in the next 5.4 and 5.3 releases.
Doug October 4, 2012
Hi. I Installed your PHP on my server and now I need to install libssh2-php, but it requires the package ‘phpapi-20090626’, and when I try to install it, I got:
root@doug-pc:# apt-get install phpapi-20090626 Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done Package phpapi-20090626 is a virtual package provided by: php5-fpm 5.3.17-1dotdeb.0 [Not candidate version] php5-cli 5.3.17-1~~dotdeb.0 [Not candidate version] php5-cgi 5.3.17-1~~dotdeb.0 [Not candidate version] libapache2-mod-php5filter 5.3.17-1~~dotdeb.0 [Not candidate version] libapache2-mod-php5 5.3.17-1~~dotdeb.0 [Not candidate version] php5-fpm 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4 [Not candidate version] libapache2-mod-php5filter 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4 [Not candidate version] php5-cli 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4 [Not candidate version] php5-cgi 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4 [Not candidate version] libapache2-mod-php5 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4 [Not candidate version] php5-fpm 5.3.10-1ubuntu3 [Not candidate version] libapache2-mod-php5filter 5.3.10-1ubuntu3 [Not candidate version] php5-cli 5.3.10-1ubuntu3 [Not candidate version] php5-cgi 5.3.10-1ubuntu3 [Not candidate version] libapache2-mod-php5 5.3.10-1ubuntu3 [Not candidate version]
E: Package ‘phpapi-20090626’ has no installation candidate
Can you help me?
- Guillaume Plessis October 4, 2012
  @Doug : install php5-ssh2 from Dotdeb instead.
  FYI, Dotdeb is built for Debian stable, not for Ubuntu. You could have such dependency issues, sometimes unresolvable.
  - Doug October 4, 2012
    Hi, The php5-ssh2 worked. Thank you. I am using Dotdeb on my Ubuntu Server 12.04.1 and I didn’t got big problems by now except this one. Thanks for the help.
Erik October 6, 2012
Hi
How do I install PHP 5.4 from Dotdeb?
- Guillaume Plessis October 6, 2012
  @Erik : I think there’s an “instructions” link at the top of this page
  - Erik October 6, 2012
    So I should add the two lines from step one and two? Not only from step 2 if I want PHP 5.4?
    When I want to install it can I just run apt-get install php-5 or do I have to run something else, like apt-get install php-54?
    - Guillaume Plessis October 7, 2012
      @Erik : cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotdeb.list »EOD deb http://packages.dotdeb.org/ squeeze all deb http://packages.dotdeb.org/ squeeze-php54 all EOD
      apt-get update apt-get install php5
      - Erik October 7, 2012
        Ok thanks!
Jorgen October 7, 2012
After upgrading to PHP5.4.7 from PHP5.3.17, the sqlite session.save_handler is no longer available or registered in PHP. The changelog does not indicate anything changed here, so am I doing something wrong or is there something else going wrong?
- Guillaume Plessis October 7, 2012
  @Jorgen : as of PHP 5.4, sqlite has been moved to PECL. Only sqlite3 and PDO-sqlite are bundled in the php5-sqlite package.
Turker Sezer October 8, 2012
I can’t find which version you used for memcached package. Could you please add library versions to packages or website?
- Guillaume Plessis October 8, 2012
  @Turker Sezer : I always try to use the latest stable version. Memcached 2.1.0 in your case.
  - Turker Sezer October 11, 2012
    thanks for quick response. please also add these details to changelog. so we can follow them easily.
Blake Young October 11, 2012
Greetings, quick question with the 5.3.17 packages it appears that the php5-sybase/php5-mssql doesnt provide the PDO MSSQL extension, am I missing something on the install but doing and upgrade of php5 / php5-common which picks up all my deps but I lose PDO from the install.
- Guillaume Plessis October 11, 2012
  @Blake Young : php5-mssql provides PDO_dblib instead.
  http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-dblib.php
  - Blake Young October 11, 2012
    Cheers for the quick reply, not in front of it at the moment, will have to double check the deps upgrade process I ran, thanks again
Sven Leuschner January 29, 2013
@Guillaume Following your suggestion I installed php5-mssql (OK php5-sybase the php5-mssql is only a “mirror” - trying to install that gives “already installed” now ) - but I dont see dblib as usable PDO connection. My Server runs Ubuntu SMP 2013 x86_64, PHP Version 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4 installed as FPM/FCGI. Checking phpinfo() reveals that indeed dblib is not announced as available pdo driver. Any hints on that matter ?
- Guillaume Plessis January 29, 2013
  @Sven Leuschner : if your server runs “PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4”, what’s the deal with Dotdeb? php5-sybase from Dotdeb brings the dblib support for PDO :
```
$ php -i
...
PDO Driver for FreeTDS/Sybase DB-lib => enabled
```
  - Sven Leuschner January 30, 2013
    As I read the same information for ubuntu systems, I was expecting the same - unfortunately I get “unknown PDO driver ‘dblib’ " when I try to connect
    - Guillaume Plessis January 30, 2013
      @Sven Leuschner : you should contact the Ubuntu maintainers
Sven Leuschner February 12, 2013
Thanks Guillaume - solved.. its a pure PDO problem - reverted back to old mssql_-Extension and it works like a dream
As of now , I need only to call a single stored procedure - and that works well … Maybe I’ll fix it together with my adminitstrator in a future update
dealskey February 16, 2013
Could you load any other resources on the site directly? Might be a problem in .htaccess or a wrong Apache configuration after you’ve updated the PHP.
I use
AddHandler php-stable .php
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find -name ‘.ph[pt].’ -o -name ‘.php[345s].’ -o \

Hi. I Installed your PHP on my server and now I need to install libssh2-php, but it requires the package ‘phpapi-20090626’, and when I try to install it, I got:

E: Package ‘phpapi-20090626’ has no installation candidate