On May 1st 2014, the PHP group has released PHP 5.4.28. 9 bugs were fixed in this release, including CVE-2014-0185. All PHP 5.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb : for Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” and 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. ...

On April 30th 2014, the PHP group has released PHP 5.5.12 : This release fixes several bugs against PHP 5.5.11, as well as CVE-2014-0185 regarding PHP-FPM. All PHP users are encouraged to upgrade to this new version. As a consequence, PHP 5.5.12 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.4 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. Please read the Changelog and the migration guide (be aware of the backward incompatible changes) before upgrading. ...

Redis 2.8.9 has been released on April 22nd 2014, bringing the HyperLogLog data structure… You can read more about it in this blog post. Beside this great announcement, the “Sorted Set” data type has now support for lexicographic range queries, check the new commands ZRANGEBYLEX, ZLEXCOUNT and ZREMRANGEBYLEX, which are documented at http://redis.io. The upgrade urgency is low because only new features were introduced, no bugs were fixed. The packages are now available for both Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” and Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. ...

Zabbix 2.2.3 has been released on April 7th 2014. It introduces more efficient SNMP polling (and much faster Oracle back-end). Please read the release notes for more info. As usual, the packages are now available : for Debian 7.0 “Wheezy and 6.0 “Squeeze”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. And don’t forget, if you find Dotdeb useful, feel free to show your support.

On April 3rd 2014, the PHP group has released PHP 5.4.27. 6 bugs were fixed in this release, including CVE-2013-7345. All PHP 5.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb : for Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” and 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. ...

On April 2nd 2014, the PHP group has released PHP 5.5.11 : Several bugs were fixed in this release, some bundled libraries updated and a security issue has been fixed : CVE-2013-7345. We recommand all PHP 5.5 users to upgrade to this version. As a consequence, PHP 5.5.11 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.4 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. Please read the Changelog and the migration guide (be aware of the backward incompatible changes) before upgrading. ...

After having MySQL 5.6.17 published, some users complained about a warning thrown by their PHP applications : PHP Warning: mysql_connect(): Headers and client library minor version mismatch. Headers:50535 Library:50617 In fact, this could happen with any application linked to libmysqlclient18 in a certain version ( php5-mysql from Dotdeb is linked to the 5.5.35 version from the stock Debian distribution) when connecting to a MySQL server in another version (5.6.17 in our case). The warning is thrown by libmysqlclient18 itself. And this is just a warning, there is no reason why any bad behavior would happen in that case. ...

After months of work in (slow) progress, I’m glad to announce that packages of MySQL 5.6.17 are now available for Debian 7.4 “Wheezy” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. This is our first major release of the MySQL 5.6 branch, so be very careful when upgrading your boxes : backup your data first, keep a spare/ delayed MySQL slave… And be sure to know in details what’s new in MySQL 5.6 : ...

Redis 2.8.8 has been released on March 25th 2014, bringing a lot of fixes… Take a look at the Changelog for more details. The upgrade urgency is high for Redis, low for Sentinel. There is a potentially critical bug fix causing data loss in Redis but it requires a combination of disk full and the use of the SHUTDOWN command. The packages are now available for both Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” and Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. ...

Nginx 1.4.7 has been released on March 18th 2014, fixing a potential heap memory buffer overflow when using SPDY, and also the fastcgi_next_upstream directive. More info in the changelog. As a consequence, Dotdeb’s packages of Nginx 1.4.7 are now available for both Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” and Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” (amd64/i386). As usual, if you want to know which module has been included in each Nginx flavor, you just have to look at this document. ...