MySQL 5.1.37 is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 4.0 “Etch” / Debian 5.0 “Lenny” in amd64/i386 flavours. It fixes two security issues and brings a lot of bugfixes (read the list of changes), especially about replication and partitioning. Please upgrade your servers.

Some days after MySQL 5.0.83 has been released, MySQL 5.0.84 is now available on Dotdeb for Etch amd64/i386. Please note that an advisory about a remote DoS for MySQL <5.0.84 is under review : CVE-2009-2446. Therefore, upgrading to this new version is strongly recommanded. As usual, please read the list of changes before upgrading.

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MySQL 5.1.36 is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 4.0 “Etch” / Debian 5.0 “Lenny” in amd64/i386 flavours. It fixes a lot of annoying bugs (read the list of changes to be convicted), especially one about granting the right privileges during the Debian post-installation process. The mysql-server-5.1 package should now install without needing any ugly trick. Please upgrade your servers.

MySQL 5.0.83 is now available on Dotdeb for Etch amd64/i386. Please read the list of changes of this maintenance release before upgrading.

The official announce of PHP 5.3.0 Read carefully this announce from PHP.net and its links : The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more. ...

A few days ago, the PHP development team announced the availability of PHP 5.2.10 with many improvements and 100+ bug fixes. Here is the Changelog. Now that the corresponding Suhosin patch is alive, the PHP 5.2.10 packages are available on Dotdeb : for Debian Lenny and Etch for the amd64 and i386 architectures Upgrading your servers is highly recommanded. Update : The PHP 5.2.10 packages seem to be buggy under (un)certain conditions : (f)CGI + Suhosin. Then I decided to rollback to 5.2.9 to avoid a flood a users’ requests and to give me time to investigate. If your PHP 5.2.10 does not encounter problems, keep it, you’re lucky ...

From PHP.net : The PHP development team is proud to announce the fourth release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 (PHP 5.3.0RC4). This RC focuses on bug fixes and stability improvements, and we hope only minimal changes are required for the next candidate or final stable releases. PHP 5.3.0 is a newly developed version of PHP featuring long-awaited features like namespaces, late static binding, closures and much more. Please download and test these release candidates, and report any issues found. A stable release is expected next week . In case of critical issues we will continue producing weekly RCs. Downloads and further information is available at qa.php.net. See also the work in progress 5.3 upgrade guide. ...

Do you remember how to speed up your MySQL server using the Google Perftools? It seems that the amd64 flavour of these libraries makes MySQL crash. I just bumped the version of the google-perftools packages for Lenny from 1.0 to 1.3. According to the Changelog they’re bringing a lot of bugfixes and improvements, and then enhance the stability of the daemons they’re plugged in. ...

The third (and probably the last) release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 has been published by the PHP Group a few days ago. Then I updated the preview packages for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” on amd64 and i386. To fetch them, just add these temporary entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list and upgrade your boxes : deb http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all deb-src http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all Please note that an upgrade guide is being written. You also may want to visit this page. ...