PHP 5.4.9 and PHP 5.3.19

November 26, 2012 · Guillaume Plessis

On november 22nd 2012, the PHP group has released PHP 5.4.9 and PHP 5.3.19, that bring ~15 bug fixes. The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

Please also note that Xcache (packaged as php5-xcache) has been upgraded to its 3.0.0 version.

As usual, please read the ChangeLog before upgrading and be sure to use to the latest packages before reporting any issue.

Geo November 26, 2012
Something happed after the update, all sites started to low super slowly, even simple script load in 10 seconds… Does anyone have similar issues??
Vasilis Lourdas November 26, 2012
Good work, thanks guys!
voro1984 November 26, 2012
What about 5.4.9 with xcache? Stable enough for production?
Geo November 26, 2012
It was version issue for sure. Rolled back to older version and problems were gone. I guess I’ll skip this upgrade untill the next. Perhaps something in my setup didn’t get along with the newest version
- David November 27, 2012
  I’m having the same issue as you, catastrophic performance on my sites hosted on the server with PHP 5.4.9. The WordPress one takes several seconds to being rendering pages, the self-made one takes 16 seconds to finish rendering pages… I’ll have to downgrade too… So much for getting to bed “early” :/
  - Guillaume Plessis November 27, 2012
    @Geo , @David : do you use Xcache?
    - David November 28, 2012
      I don’t think so. Well, I don’t have package php5-xcache installed, at least:
      dpkg -s php5-xcache Package `php5-xcache’ is not installed and no info is available.
      - David November 28, 2012
        NB: like Geo, all solved by downgrading. More specifically, when I downgraded package libapache2-mod-php5filter (not sure if that means the problem is there, it’s also the last package of the upgrade batch that I downgraded)
    - Geo November 28, 2012
      @Guillaume Plessis I didn’t have xCache installed.
      - David December 10, 2012
        Btw, any news on this? Not that I really need to upgrade to 5.4.9, but if noone knows where this comes from, I’m afraid it might do it again in 5.4.10 and so on…
Pascale Beier November 27, 2012
Because I prefere APC above xCache, the update is not that interesting to me.
One interesting aspect is that PCRE is updated to 8.3.1, but it’s not the world ;)
Nevertheless, good work, guys! /updated.
David Goodwin November 27, 2012
I’m seeing :
“/usr/lib/php5/20090626/xcache.so doesn’t appear to be a valid Zend extension”
on Debian Squeeze when using php5-xcache ( 5.3.19-1~dotdeb.0 ).
Is this perhaps why the above commenter reported his sites being slow?
David Goodwin November 27, 2012
Ah, /etc/php5/conf.d/xcache.ini needed changing to be ’extension = xcache.so’ rather than ‘zend_extension = ….’.
- Guillaume Plessis November 27, 2012
  @David Goodwin : yes, it’s listed as a change in http://xcache.lighttpd.net/wiki/Release-3.0.0 I’ll fix it in the next packages. Thanks for the feedback.
Daniel November 27, 2012
Hi there. Is it possible to please compile these PHP packages with PostgreSQL support?
Ta :-)
- Guillaume Plessis November 27, 2012
  @Daniel: what about installing php5-pgsql?
T-34 November 27, 2012
Xcache 3.0 stable version is incompatible with ioncube loader (php 5.3, Debian x64). It’s fixed in trunk @ 1163 (prooflink: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/xcache/UZFaC4iQSmc/_-mqTFw4scIJ). It would be great to have the latest dev-version of Xcache in Dotdeb repository.
- Anthony Somerset December 29, 2012
  i had the same issue here, latest update, didnt update my xcache.ini file, had to manually change extension = to zend_extension = for this to work
users November 28, 2012
great job thanx for you package
Michael November 29, 2012
Updated without any problems.
Thank you again!
darkmod December 9, 2012
Thanks, update))
mig5 December 13, 2012
Hi,
I was just wondering why your php5-memcached / php5-memcache packages (and php5-suhosin, for that matter, even though I know it’s deprecated) aren’t showing in your archive.dotdeb.org for previous releases?
http://archives.dotdeb.org/dists/squeeze/php5/5.3.18/binary-i386/
I have version 5.3.19 of these from your repository, but I need to downgrade.
Can the old versions of those other packages be added to the archive?
Thanks!
mig5 December 13, 2012
Cancel that, I see they are over in here:
http://archives.dotdeb.org/dists/squeeze/php5-pecl/5.3.18/php5-pecl/binary-i386/
thanks!
Michael Lednev December 17, 2012
Hello. Any plans to upgrade php5-gearman (and gearman itself) to more recent version? Version 0.13 present in squeeze is way too old.
- Guillaume Plessis December 18, 2012
  @Michael Lednev : I have no plan for gearman, sorry. The problem with php5-gearman is that new versions need updated gearman libraries.
Yury December 18, 2012
Hi. I can’t install php5-apc.
~# apt-get install php5-apc Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-apc : Depends: php5-common (= 5.3.19-1~dotdeb.0) but 5.3.8-2 is to be installed E: Broken packages
Macro December 21, 2012
Hey, how can I use PHP5.3 and PHP5.4 parallel?
- Guillaume Plessis December 21, 2012
  @Macro : not on the same Debian install, sorry. Maybe you can try to build a chroot or a container.
Kissifrot December 22, 2012
On my side I’m having problems with utf8 encoding the php 5.4 (and PDO): defining the charset=utf8 in the DSN doesn’t work, as well as the PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND.only an exec(‘SET NAMES utf8’); will work. Any idea? (I’m using mysqlnd)
- Guillaume Plessis December 22, 2012
  @Kissifrot : does your system support such a locale and shouldn’t your PHP script use the appropriate LC_* environment variables?
  - Kissifrot December 29, 2012
    haha, found the problem: when specifying the charset in the DSN, I typed charset=utf-8 instead of charset=utf8 (as writen in my previous comment), so it works :)
Gianluca Zamagni December 22, 2012
Thanks :)
lyp December 25, 2012
nginx + php5-fpm how to run *. pl
- lyp December 25, 2012
  perl
- Guillaume Plessis December 25, 2012
  @lyp : no need for php5-fpm to execute perl scripts. You may want to use the HTTP Perl module, that is included in the nginx-extras package.
mikhal December 27, 2012
Hello. Do you planning to make packages for PHP 5.4.10 and PHP 5.3.20?
http://php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-12-20-1
Sameer March 4, 2013
Hi,
Where can i get the php5-ldap for php 5.3.19 the latest in the repo is for php 5.3.22 but i need for php 5.3.19
- Guillaume Plessis March 4, 2013
  @Sameer : http://archives.dotdeb.org/
  - Sameer March 4, 2013
    Thanks @Guillaume
    Found it