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PHP 5.2.8 available [update]

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 been upgraded to 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.1 to fix an issue about pcre & utf8.

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It seems unicode support is turned off in the pcre build. I use Zend Lucene and am getting an Utf8Num analyzer needs PCRE unicode support to be enabled.
Is there any easy way to correct this?

Also have the same issue with preg_* and utf8. Worked fine until the latest release. Same problem as: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46800

I verified that preg_*/utf8 works fine in dotdeb PHP 5.2.6-0, and does not work in 5.2.8-0.
Testing using:
$test = preg_match(‘/[\pL]+/ui’, ‘abc’);
var_dump($test);

Hello,

it shows that pcre unicode support is turned off, it was working fine before build 5.2.7,
any thoughts how to solve this?

thanks

Thanks a bunch! I upgraded and everything works fine now. I know I speak for everyone when I say we really appreciate it.

Since the upgrade (and the upgrade to the upgrade) I get segfaults with xcache enabled. It might be me behind the wheel that’s the problem, but it worked before the upgrades…. I need some handholding to debug further.

Are you using PHP extensions that does not come from Dotdeb, such as Zend Optimizer?
Which extensions did you install?
Could you please provide a phpinfo() or some more debugging info (strace…)

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phpinfo here: http://kioskkiosk.com/di.php
although note that right now I set xcache sizes to 0 to disable xcache (and it doesn’t segfault when disabled)….

The installed extensions:
dpkg-query -l php*|grep ii
ii php5-cgi 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.1 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting languag
ii php5-cli 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.1 command-line interpreter for the php5 script
ii php5-common 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.1 Common files for packages built from the php
ii php5-curl 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.1 CURL module for php5
ii php5-dev 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.1 Files for PHP5 module development
ii php5-gd 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.1 GD module for php5
ii php5-imap 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.1 IMAP module for php5
ii php5-mcrypt 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.1 MCrypt module for php5
ii php5-mhash 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.1 MHASH module for php5
ii php5-mysql 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.1 MySQL module for php5
ii php5-pear 5.1.4-1.dotdeb.3 PEAR – PHP Extension and Application Reposit
ii php5-xcache 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.1 xcache module for php5

I Have a problem setting the mbstring.func_overload value.

It doesn’t work by setting it within the apache virtualhost config anymore. Is this a problem of dotdeb’s version?
Thx

@Alex : This security issue has been fixed in november 2006, more than two years ago. The feature is still present, but is secure.

Anyway, if you prefer to avoid the X-PHP-Script header added with the mail() function, set mail_extra_headers to Off in your php.ini.

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PHP5.2.8.0 is broken for Debian Etch 4.0:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
php5: Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.2) but it is not going to be installed or
libapache2-mod-php5filter (>= 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.2) but it is not going to be installed or
php5-cgi (>= 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: php5-common (>= 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I added your sources to my sources.list file (have currently etch with php-5.2.0-8″) and performed apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, but php was not updated, but have been kept back:

host:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
The following packages have been kept back:
libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-gd php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-mysql
php5-sqlite php5-xsl
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.

Does anybody have an idea how to solve this issue? If I type “apt-get install php5”, he says that dependencies could not be met:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
php5: Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.2) but 5.2.0-8+etch13 is to be installed or
libapache2-mod-php5filter (>= 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.2) but it is not going to be installed or
php5-cgi (>= 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: php5-common (>= 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.2) but 5.2.0-8+etch13 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Forget my last post. Of course, I have to add the sources with “etch” and not stable after Feb, 14th 🙂

Now everything worked perfectly. Thanks!

Hi Guillaume,

unfortunately, the PHP 5.2.8-2 PHP-Pear Package does not work on ubuntu 8.0.4 – server. The pear command just downloads the tgz file, but does not initialize the installation process. Same thing for pecl.

Can somebody double-check this? The original ubuntu 8.0.4 PHP 5.2.4 packs are working fine.

Regards!
Mario

@Guillaume: Excellent, thanks, no problem for the delay.. Hope you had a nice time skiing :)..

Help me pliase to resolve…
Thanks …
apt-get -f install
dpkg –configure -a

apt-get update
apt-get install
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get -f install

apt-get autoclean
apt-get clean

apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
The following packages have been kept back:
libapache2-mod-php5 libmysqlclient16 mysql-client-5.1 mysql-server-5.1
php-pear php5 php5-cgi php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-gd php5-mysql
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.

@askmetoo : as written in my post about Lenny, take care of the Dotdeb entries in your sources.list :

It should refer to stable or lenny if you want to make the switch and take benefits from the brand new Debian distribution :

deb http://your.mirror/ stable all
deb-src http://your.mirror/ stable all

It should refer to oldstable or etch if you want to stick to the good old Etch and to take your time to upgrade.

deb http://your.mirror/ oldstable all
deb-src http://your.mirror/ oldstable all

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I have PHP 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.7 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) on Ubuntu 8.04.2, is it possible to add dotdeb repo and upgrade PHP5 ?
I need to install x-php-script mail patch …
Can i try other solution ?
Thank you!

PHP 5.2.8 with xcache 1.2.1 does not work – after 2 or 3 days it ends up with segmentation fault and serve reboot is needed. What a shame – speed improvement is really huge on high load machines…

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