PHP 5.4.10 and PHP 5.3.20

December 30, 2012 · Guillaume Plessis

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.

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

Vasilis Lourdas December 30, 2012
Great work as usual. I use your packages in 2 Debian Squeeze servers of mine and I’ve faced no issues so far.
Tim December 31, 2012
Guillaume, thank you for the great work in the last years!! What you think? If I use Squeeze with your PHP 5.4 already, will this be a problem when I upgrade to Wheezy, when it`s released?
- Guillaume Plessis December 31, 2012
  @Tim : there will be no problem, I’m ensuring a full compatibility with later Debian packages.
David January 1, 2013
Thanks for this update, I’ll try it maybe tomorrow if I have a big enough free time window. I wonder if @Geo got the same issue as with 5.4.9 (/2012/11/26/php-5-4-9-and-php-5-3-19/)
Albert January 3, 2013
Hi Gillaume! First of all let me thank you for the great work done at dot deb :) Second, APC has been updated today to 3.1.4. What is the update policy for dotdeb php5-apc packages? Will they be updated on the next PHP release to 3.1.14?
Thanks!
- Guillaume Plessis January 3, 2013
  @Albert : yes, APC 3.1.14 will be available with the next PHP packages.
  - Sven January 24, 2013
    That´s great, thanks for all your work! Is there a date yet for PHP 5.4.11 & APC 3.1.14?
    - Guillaume Plessis January 24, 2013
      @Sven : in the next few hours/days
Steven January 4, 2013
I have just upgraded my server from PHP 5.3 to 5.4. All done without any issues (except for my own stupidity of course). Thanks!
Vid Luther January 4, 2013
Hi, I upgraded from PHP 5.3.20 to PHP 5.4.10 using your packages. Now when I try to build the mysqlnd_ms plugin, using pecl install mysqlnd_ms , I get an error saying the mysqlnd.h file is missing.
I’m not sure if that’s related to this bug? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/+bug/1056072
- Guillaume Plessis January 4, 2013
  @Vid Luther : that’s exactly the same problem as reported on launchpad. I’ll try to fix it in the next releases. Could you please fill in a bug report on https://github.com/gplessis/dotdeb-php5/issues ?
  Waiting for a fix, you can do this :
  This can be manually fixed by using apt-get source and dpkg-buildpackage to build the php5 packages locally, and then copying the include folder from the build outputs
Luke January 6, 2013
It would be very useful to have instructions on how to install the packages themselves rather than just announcing they are available, same goes for your instructions page
- Guillaume Plessis January 6, 2013
  @Luke : do you mean typing “apt-get install”, followed by the names of the packages you want to install? :)
  - David January 6, 2013
    Maybe pointing to the repos ;) I myself tend to forget where they are ^^ (on a site note: still haven’t had the time to try those new packages)
David January 7, 2013
Same causes, same effects: the problem I had with PHP 5.4.9 (very slow loading of pages) still occurs with this version. To fix is, I only need to downgrade php5-common and libapache2-mod-php5filter to 5.4.8 (php5-cli, php5-curl, php5-gd, php5-mcrypt and php5-mysql I can keep at version 5.4.10 without slowing the thing down). I’m on Debian 6.0.6.
proforg January 17, 2013
Xcache 3.0 is incompatible with ionCube loader. It’s fixed in 3.0.1 (http://xcache.lighttpd.net/browser/tags/3.0.1/ChangeLog). Can you please update Xcache version in Dotdeb repository!
- Guillaume Plessis January 17, 2013
  @proforg : Xcache 3.0.1 will be available with the incoming PHP 5.4.11 and 5.3.21 packages
Thorsten Schifferdecker January 22, 2013
@profog: build you own updated xcache package, like:
install req and helper script
apt-get install dh-make-pecl wget –no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/gplessis/dotdeb-php5-pecl/squeeze-php53/debianize
get source and unpack
wget http://xcache.lighttpd.net/pub/Releases/3.0.1/xcache-3.0.1.tar.gz tar -xzf xcache-3.0.1.tar.gz
setup your Maintainer Setup
export DEBFULLNAME="here_comes_your_name"; export DEBEMAIL="your_email" ./debianize xcache-3.0.1
install xcache with updated src
dpkg -i php5-xcache_5.3.20-1~dotdeb.0_amd64.deb
#and set php5-xcache on hold echo “php5-xcache hold” | dpkg –set-selections
and wait for a php5 5.3.21 on dotdeb.org repo and unhold it again
echo “php5-xcache install” | dpkg –set-selections
@Guillaume Plessis: please update the xcache pkg asap - so a apache2 webserver with libapache2-mod-php5, php5-xcache and ioncube doesnt start anymore!
Christian January 24, 2013
Will there be an update to php5-suhosin as well? It will be removed when I update 5.3 to 5.4.
- Guillaume Plessis January 24, 2013
  @Christian : there won’t be any php5-suhosin package for PHP 5.4+, sorry
Ryan January 30, 2013
Anyone else having problems with the PHP5-FPM package using PHP 5.4? It seems that PHP5-FPM does not accept any connections. Causing Nginx to report 502 Bad gateway. I posted more information at https://github.com/gplessis/dotdeb-php5/issues/25 .

install req and helper script

get source and unpack

setup your Maintainer Setup

install xcache with updated src

and wait for a php5 5.3.21 on dotdeb.org repo and unhold it again