On July 11th 2013, the PHP group has released PHP 5.3.27. The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.27. About 10 bugs were fixed, including a security fix in the XML parser (Bug #65236). Please Note: This will be the last regular release of the PHP 5.3 series. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4 or PHP 5.5. The PHP 5.3 series will receive only security fixes for the next year. ...

On July 4th 2013, the PHP group has released PHP 5.4.17. About 20 bugs were fixed. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb : for Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” and Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. As usual, please read the ChangeLog before upgrading and be sure to use to the latest packages before reporting any issue. And if you like Dotdeb, feel free to show your support. ...

Percona toolkit 2.2.3 is now available on Dotdeb for both Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” and Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”. It fixes bugs in the previous release and includes the following changes : pt-online-schema-change did not handle the failure of the DROP TRIGGER statements correctly Created pt-agent pt-query-digest –output json now includes more data As usual, before upgrading, please read the list of changes for Percona toolkit 2.2.3 and the announcement by Matt Griffin. ...

On June 20th 2013, the PHP group has released the first stable version of PHP 5.5. The key features of PHP 5.5.0 include: Added generators and coroutines. Added “finally” keyword. Added simplified password hashing API. Added support for constant array/string dereferencing. Added Class Name Resolution As Scalar Via “class” Keyword Added support for using empty() on the result of function calls and other expressions Added support for non-scalar Iterator keys in foreach Added support for list in foreach Added Zend Opcache extension and enable building it by default. The GD library has been upgraded to version 2.1 adding new functions and improve existing functionality. A lot more improvements and fixes Changes that affect compatibility: ...

Redis 2.6.14 has been released, bringing the following changes (take a look at the Changelog) : [FIX] AOF bug: expire could be removed from key on AOF rewrite. [FIX] Allow writes from scripts called by AOF loading in read-only slaves. [FIX] Sentinel: parse new version of INFO replication output correctly. [NEW] Reset masterauth if an empty string is configured. The upgrade urgency is HIGH because of the following two issues: Lua scripting + Replication + AOF in slaves problem (see Issue #1164). AOF + expires possible race condition (see Issue #1079). The packages are now available for both Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” and Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. ...

If everything goes well, PHP 5.5.0 will be available later this month. This major release brings better overall performance and a lot of new features. On June 6th 2013, the PHP group has released the third release candidate of PHP 5.5.0. As a consequence, I’m proud to announce that the corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.0 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. To upgrade to PHP 5.5.0-RC3, just add these two lines to your sources.list : ...

On June 6th 2013, the PHP group has released PHP 5.3.26. These releases fix about 15 bugs, including CVE-2013-2110. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.16. The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. As usual, please read the ChangeLog before upgrading and be sure to use to the latest packages before reporting any issue. And if you like Dotdeb, feel free to show your support. ...

On June 6th 2013, the PHP group has released PHP 5.4.16. These releases fix about 15 bugs, including CVE-2013-2110. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.16. The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb : for Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” and Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. Please note that php5-readline is now a separate package and that php5-pinba is back. As usual, please read the ChangeLog before upgrading and be sure to use to the latest packages before reporting any issue. ...

Packages of MySQL 5.5.31 are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. They fix some serious vulnerabilities and InnoDB-, partition- and replication-related bugs as well. Please note that the Pinba engine has also been rebuilt to be used against this new version. As usual, please read carefully the full Changelog before upgrading.

On May 9th 2013, the PHP group has released PHP 5.4.15 and PHP 5.3.25. These releases fix about 10 bugs aswell as upgrading the bundled libmagic library. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.15. The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb : for Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” and Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. Please note that the php5-ffmpeg and php5-pinba packages for PHP 5.4 are missing on Wheezy. They should appear in the next few days, after their source code has been made compatible with Debian’s multi-arch scheme. ...