Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
A few days ago, the second release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 has been published by the PHP Group.
I just updated the preview packages for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" on amd64 and i386. Have fun!
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
The PHP 5.2.9 packages for Etch/Lenny amd64/i386 have been updated :
some obsolete ./configure options have been deleted
the sigchild support has been dropped
a memory leak has been fixed
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
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 ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Sorry for the delay, but I had to come back from winter sports to have a decent Internet connection...
After being published by the PHP Group, PHP 5.2.9 anf its corresponding PECL extensions is now packaged for Lenny/Etch, amd64/i386. It fixes some annoying crashes and one security issue. The next release ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" has been published on last Valentine's day. Although most of the Dotdeb packages for the previous release, "Etch", are compatible with Lenny, it is now time for Dotdeb to have dedicated packages for this new distribution.
I'm actually kind of busy at work, but I managed to ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
The PHP Group released PHP 5.2.8 this morning to fix the magic_quotes_gpc issue.
If you previously installed PHP 5.2.7-0.dotdeb.1 from Dotdeb and do not care about the version number displayed in your phpinfo(), save your bandwidth, your server is already secure :) Otherwise, just apt-get upgrade your LAMP stack...
[update] The packages have ...
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Stefan Esser has posted a warning about upgrading PHP to the 5.2.7 release :
(...)a change in the ext/filter extension that by default processes all incoming data, broke the magic_quotes_gpc feature. While magic_quotes_gpc itself is deprecated and it is recommended to not rely on it as protection against SQL injection, it is ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
From PHP.net :
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediateavailability of PHP 5.2.7. This release focuses on improving the stability ofthe PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related.All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.
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Further details about the PHP ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
I often receive emails telling me that Dotdeb is a great tool, but that some useful packages are missing, such as some PECL extensions. I wish I could maintain many and many packages, but I don't think it's a good idea for the Dotdeb's overall quality and for my free time ...
Posted in Documentation, PHP | 53 Comments »
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Since PHP4 is officially dead, it is now urgent to migrate your applications to PHP5, but it's not that easy and you'll have to test them before replacing PHP4 by PHP5 on your server. This article will help you to install both PHP4 and PHP5 on your box and swicth ...
Posted in Documentation, PHP | 4 Comments »
