On October 15th 2015, the PHP group published the fifth release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 5 contains fixes for 11 reported bugs and over 100 commits with various improvements. Packages of PHP 7.0-RC5 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Disclaimer : THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW (from a PHP upstream and from a Dotdeb/Debian packaging perspectives) - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! ...

Redis 3.0.5 has been released on October 15th 2015, bringing some replication fixes and new cluster features. The upgrade urgency moderate : the most important thing is a fix in the replication code that may make the slave hanging forever if the master remains with an open socket even if it is no longer able to reply. The packages are now available : for Debian 8 “Jessie”, Debian 7 “Wheezy” and Debian 6 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

On October 1st 2015, the PHP group released PHP 5.5.30. This is a security release. Two security bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.5.30 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 October 1st 2015, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.14. Two security bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.6.14 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 October 1st 2015, the PHP group published the fourth release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 4 contains fixes for 22 reported bugs and over 100 commits with various improvements. Packages of PHP 7.0-RC4 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Disclaimer : THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW (from a PHP upstream and from a Dotdeb/Debian packaging perspectives) - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! ...

On September 17th 2015, the PHP group published the third release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 3 contains fixes for 19 reported bugs and over 100 commits with various improvements. This release provides a noticeable new Opcache feature which makes possible to move PHP code pages into the huge memory pages. It can be enabled with opcache.huge_code_pages=1 in php.ini and can bring about 2% performance gain on supported platforms. Please help us to test this feature by enabling it and providing feedback. ...

Redis 3.0.4 has been released on September 8th 2015, bringing some important fixes and new replication features. The upgrade urgency is high for Redis and Sentinel. However note that in order to fix certain replication bugs, the replication internals were modified in a very heavy way. So while this release is conceptually saner, it may contain regressions. For this reason, before the release, QA activities were performed by me ( antirez) and Redis Labs and no evident bug was found. ...

On September 4th 2015, the PHP group published the second release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 2 contains fixes for 28 reported bugs, 7 of which are security related, and altogether over 250 commits with various improvements. PHP 7.0.0 comes with new version of the Zend Engine with features such as (incomplete list): Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6 Consistent 64-bit support Many fatal errors are now Exceptions Removal of old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions The null coalescing operator (??) Combined comparison Operator (< =>) Return Type Declarations Scalar Type Declarations Anonymous Classes For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. ...

Zabbix 2.2.10 has been released on August 10th 2015. This release fixes known issues of Zabbix 2.2.x and introduces new minor features. Please read the release notes for more info. As usual, the packages are now available : for Debian 7.0 “Wheezy and 6.0 “Squeeze”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

On September 4th 2015, the PHP group released PHP 5.4.45. Ten security-related issues were fixed in this release. All PHP 5.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. (…) Please note that according to the PHP version support timelines, PHP 5.4.45 is the last scheduled release of PHP 5.4 branch. There may be additional release if we discover important security issues that warrant it, otherwise this release will be the final one in the PHP 5.4 branch. If your PHP installation is based on PHP 5.4, it may be a good time to start making the plans for the upgrade to PHP 5.5 or PHP 5.6. ...