On December 18th 2014, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.4. Two security-related bugs were fixed in this release, including the fix for CVE-2014-8142. All PHP 5.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.6.4 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. Please also note these points : Regression : php5-memcached lacks JSON support Missing packages : Xcachen Xdebug and Xhprof are missing for now End of support : Spplus won’t be supported anymore. Pinba’s fates hasn’t been decided yet. As a consequence : ...

On November 13th 2014, the PHP group released PHP 5.4.35. 4 security-related bugs were fixed in this release, including the fix for CVE-2014-3710. All PHP 5.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb : for Debian 7 “Wheezy” and Debian 6 “Squeeze”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. The following modules have been packaged too : APC 3.1.13 apcu 4.0.7 ffmpeg 0.6.0 (Squeeze only) gearman 0.8.3 geoip 1.0.8 imagick 3.1.2 memcache 3.0.8 memcached 2.2.0 mongo 1.5.8 pecl_http 1.7.6 pinba (master) redis 2.2.5 spplus 1.1 ssh2 0.12 xcache 3.2.0 xdebug 2.2.6 xhprof 0.9.4 zendopcache 7.0.3 As usual, please read the ChangeLog before upgrading and be sure to use to the latest packages before reporting any issue. ...

On November 13th 2014, the PHP group released PHP 5.5.19. This release fixes several bugs and one CVE in the fileinfo extension. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.5.19 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. They include a fix for regressions in the FPM SAPI (See 1, 2 and 3) that is present in the upstream version of PHP 5.5.19. ...

On November 13th 2014, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.3. This release fixes several bugs and one CVE in the fileinfo extension. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.6.3 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. They include a fix for regressions in the FPM SAPI (See 1, 2 and 3) that is present in the upstream version of PHP 5.6.3. ...

MySQL 5.6.21 has been released on September 23rd, 2014, fixing 24 security issues and various bugs affecting previous versions. Please read the full Changelog fore more details. The corresponding packages are now available for Debian 7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. Note : Some people reported having difficulties upgrading from 5.6.19 to 5.6.21. If this is your case, prefer using apt-get dist-upgrade (or equivalent) instead of apt-get upgrade.

On October 16th 2014, the PHP group released PHP 5.4.34. 6 security-related bugs were fixed in this release, including fixes for CVE-2014-3668, CVE-2014-3669 and CVE-2014-3670. Also, a fix for OpenSSL which produced regressions was reverted. All PHP 5.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb : for Debian 7 “Wheezy” and Debian 6 “Squeeze”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. The following modules have been packaged too : ...

On October 16th 2014, the PHP group released PHP 5.5.18. Several bugs were fixed in this release. A regression in OpenSSL introduced in PHP 5.5.17 has also been addressed in this release. PHP 5.5.18 also fixes 4 CVEs in different components. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.5.18 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. ...

On October 16th 2014, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.2. Four security-related bugs were fixed in this release, including fixes for CVE-2014-3668, CVE-2014-3669 and CVE-2014-3670. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.6.2 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. Please also note these points : Regression : php5-memcached lacks JSON support Missing packages : Xcachen Xdebug and Xhprof are missing for now End of support : Spplus won’t be supported anymore. Pinba’s fates hasn’t been decided yet. As a consequence : ...

On October 2nd 2014, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.1. Several bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.6.1 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.6 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. Please also note these points : Regression : php5-memcached lacks JSON support Missing packages : Xdebug and Xhprof are missing for now End of support : Spplus won’t be supported anymore. Xcache’s and Pinba’s fates haven’t been decided yet As a consequence : ...

On August 28th, the PHP group released the first stable version of the new major branch, PHP 5.6.0 : The PHP Development Team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.6.0. This new version comes with new features, some backward incompatible changes and many improvements. The main features of PHP 5.6.0 include: Constant scalar expressions. Variadic functions and argument unpacking using the … operator. Exponentiation using the ** operator. Function and constant importing with the use keyword. phpdbg as an interactive integrated debugger SAPI. php://input is now reusable, and $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated. GMP objects now support operator overloading. File uploads larger than 2 gigabytes in size are now accepted. For a full list of new features, you may read the new features chapter of the migration guide. ...