After MySQL and Redis, it’s Nginx’ turn : version 1.0.2 has been released on May 10., bringing some minor changes and bugfixes. Its packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” and Debian 5.0 “Lenny” in amd64 and i386 flavours.

Dotdeb packages of Redis for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” have been updated to version 2.2.7. Here are the release notes.

MySQL 5.1.57 packages are now available on Dotdeb : for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” and Debian 5.0 “Lenny” for the amd64 and i386 architectures The corresponding Pinba storage engine has also been rebuilt (Squeeze only). And, as usual, please read the Changelog of this maintainance release before upgrading.

Nginx 1.0.1 has been released on May 3rd, bringing some changes and bugfixes. It is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” and Debian 5.0 “Lenny” in amd64 and i386 flavours. Please note that the nginx-extras package now supports Passenger. I hope Ruby on Rails users will enjoy.

Let me introduce Passenger : Phusion Passenger™ — a.k.a. mod_rails or mod_rack — makes deployment of Ruby web applications, such as those built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework, a breeze. It follows the usual Ruby on Rails conventions, such as “Don’t-Repeat-Yourself”. Deployment is only a matter of uploading application files. No Ruby (on Rails)-specific server configuration required! Supports both the industry standard Apache web server and the fast and lightweight Nginx web server. Zero maintenance. No port management, server process monitoring or stale file cleanup required. Errors are automatically recovered whenever possible. Designed for performance, stability and security. Phusion Passenger should never crash Apache even in case of crashing Rails applications. Well-documented, for both system administrators and developers! ...

Nginx 1.0.0 has been delared stable and has been released three days ago : nginx development was started about 9 years ago. The first public version 0.1.0 has been released on October 4, 2004. Now W3Techs reports that 6.8% of the top 1 million sites on the web (according to Alexa) use nginx. And 46.9% of top Russian sites use nginx. Netcraft reports similar 6.52% nginx share of the million busiest sites in April 2011. ...

On March 17th, the PHP Group released PHP 5.3.6. This maintainance release, that focuses on security, is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” in amd64 and i386 flavours. The compatibility with the official Debian packages has been improved and you (especially the FPM users) should really take care of some important changes that I made : the intl extension is now built in a separate package : php5-intl the FPM binary is now /usr/sbin/php5-fpm (previously /usr/bin/php5-fpm) the FPM configuration file is now /etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf (previously /etc/php5/fpm/php5-fpm.conf) the FPM pools have to be moved to /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/ (previously /etc/php5/fpm/pools/) As usual, please read the Changelog before upgrading. ...

Dotdeb packages of Redis for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” have been updated to version 2.2.4, introducing a new OBJECT command. Here are the release notes. The corresponding php5-redis package with OBJECT supports will be updated in the next few days (with the upcoming PHP 5.3.6 packages).

MySQL 5.1.56 packages are now available on Dotdeb : for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” and Debian 5.0 “Lenny” for the amd64 and i386 architectures Of course, the corresponding Pinba storage engine has been rebuilt (Squeeze only). But take care to the plugin-load directive in your /etc/mysql/my.cnf file : MySQL does not support several plugin-load directives and always keep the last read. Then if you want, for example, use the Pinba storage engine while having the the InnoDB plugin loaded, you should uncomment the following line. ...

Dotdeb has always wanted to help you to build robust and featureful LAMP stacks. As of Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”, some useful tools are now supported and actively maintained on Dotdeb : PHP 5.3 and its new FPM flavour the Xhprof, PHPredis and Pinba extensions the Pinba MySQL storage engine the Redis key-value store It is now time for me to introduce the long-awaited Nginx… Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance Web server that relies on an asynchronous event-driven approach to handle HTTP requests. It behaves well under heavy load, even better than Apache (threaded or forked). Nginx can work with PHP through FPM or FastCGI (respectively packaged as php5-fpm and php5-cgi). ...