Packages of MySQL 5.5.30 are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. They fixes some InnoDB-, partition- and replication-related issues and some more bugs. And a new configuration directive, called innodb_print_all_deadlocks, has been backported from MySQL 5.6. 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 january 17th 2013, the PHP group has released PHP 5.3.21 : These releases fix about 10 bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4. The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures, with these changes : APC has been upgraded to 3.1.14 Xcache has been upgraded to 3.0.1 (now compatible with Ioncube) As usual, please read the ChangeLog before upgrading and be sure to use to the latest packages before reporting any issue. ...

On january 17th 2013, the PHP group has released PHP 5.4.11 : These releases fix about 10 bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4. The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures, with these changes : APC has been upgraded to 3.1.14 Xcache has been upgraded to 3.0.1 (now compatible with Ioncube) mysqlnd headers are now included in php5-dev to allow mysqlnd plugins to build As usual, please read the ChangeLog before upgrading and be sure to use to the latest packages before reporting any issue. ...

Percona toolkit 2.1.8 is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”. It includes some bug fixes and also beta support for MySQL 5.6 and Percona XtraDB Cluster. Take a look at this blog post by Tom Diederich for more info. As usual, please read the list of changes for Percona toolkit 2.1.8 before upgrading.

Redis 2.6.8 has been packaged, bringing two changes (take a look at the Changelog) : [BUGFIX] Multiple fixes for EVAL (issue #872). [BUGFIX] Fix overflow in mstime() in redis-cli and benchmark. [BUGFIX] Fix Linux / PPC64 behavior by correcting endianess detection. [BUGFIX] Fix NetBSD build by defining _XOPEN_SOURCE appropriately. [BUGFIX] Added missing license and copyright in a few places. [BUGFIX] Better error reporting when fd event creation fails. The upgrade urgency is moderate if you use Lua scripting. Otherwise low. ...

Let me introduce you Zabbix, a very nice all-in-one open source availability and performance monitoring solution that I use everyday on TextMe to ensure that all the applications and servers are going well. Below is a short list of features available in Zabbix: auto-discovery of servers and network devices (great for autoscaled platforms) low-level discovery (the killer feature of the 2.0 branch, imho) distributed monitoring with centralized web administration support for both polling and trapping mechanisms server software for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X native high performance agents (client software for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X, Tru64/OSF1, Windows NT4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista) agent-less monitoring secure user authentication flexible user permissions web-based interface flexible e-mail notification of predefined events high-level (business) view of monitored resources audit log… ...

On december 20th 2012, the PHP group has released PHP 5.4.10 and PHP 5.3.20 : These releases fix about 15 bugs. Please note that the PHP 5.3 series will enter an end of life cycle and receive only critical fixes as of March 2013. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4. The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. ...

Packages of MySQL 5.5.29 are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. They fixes some InnoDB- and replication-related issues and some more bugs. Please note that the Pinba engine has also been rebuilt to be used with the new version. As usual, please read carefully the full Changelog before upgrading.

Dotdeb’s packages of Nginx 1.2.6 are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” (amd64/i386) with the following changes (see the Changelog) : Feature: the $request_time and $msec variables can now be used not only in the " log_format" directive. Bugfix: cache manager and cache loader processes might not be able to start if more than 512 listen sockets were used. Bugfix: in the ngx_http_dav_module. As usual, if you want to know which module has been included in each Nginx flavor, you just have to look at this document. ...

Redis 2.6.7 has been packaged, bringing two changes (take a look at the Changelog) : [BUGFIX] Don’t crash if BLPOP & co are called with the same key repeated multiple times (issue #801). [BUGFIX] Jemalloc updated to 3.2.0 The upgrade urgency is : high if you experienced one or more crashes, or if you BLPOP using the same key multiple times, moderate if Redis is running fine for you. The packages are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. ...