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PHP 5.2 last update : 5.2.16

PHP 5.2.16 has been released by the PHP Group a few days after PHP 5.2.15 (fixing an open_basedir issue). It is now available on Dotdeb for your Debian “Lenny” servers. This maintainance release marks the end of support for PHP 5.2. You are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3 (read this migration guide). Please […]

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MySQL

MySQL 5.1.54 is available

MySQL 5.1.54 packages are now available on Dotdeb in amd64/i386 flavours for Lenny and Squeeze. As usual, please read the Changelog of this maintainance release before upgrading. Now, about MySQL 5.5 (I was asked on Twitter or in the comments here), it will be available on Dotdeb as soon as it is in Debian Sid […]

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MySQL

Upgrade to MySQL 5.1.51! It fixes a DoS vulnerability

MySQL versions prior to 5.1.51 (including 5.1.50) suffer from a vulnerability in the processing of arguments passed to the LEAST()or GREATEST() functions. This issue could be exploited by a malicious user to cause a server crash, leading to a DoS condition. You really should upgrade your Lenny servers (amd64 or i386) with the new packages of MySQL […]

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MySQL

MySQL DBA, Maatkit is good for you!

Maatkit is one of the great Open Source tools (among Percona Server, Xtrabackup and so on…) published by Percona. It’s a collection of utilities that help MySQL DBAs in many redundant, complex or boring tasks. For example : mk-query-digest that outputs a digest of the queries from a slow-query logfile or from a running MySQL […]

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Miscellaneous

Dotdeb packages are now signed!

After many requests from several users and after many months of promise, the Dotdeb repositories are GPG-signed. Yes, you can now get rid of the annoying “WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!” message! Waiting for a dotdeb-keyring package, you just have to get the key and add it to your trusted keys’ keyring : gpg […]

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MySQL

MySQL 5.1.47, a security-focused release, is available

MySQL 5.1.47 is now available on Dotdeb for your Lenny servers, in amd64 and i386 flavours. This is a security-oriented release that fixes some serious flaws… Please read full changelog for more information. Please also note that the InnoDB plugin has been upgraded to version 1.0.8 and is now considered of General Availability quality. Feel free […]

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MySQL

MySQL 5.1.46 is now available

MySQL 5.1.46 is now available on Dotdeb for your Lenny servers, in amd64 and i386 flavours. It fixes a lot of annoying bugs and upgrades the InnoDB plugin to version 1.0.7 for more performances. Be careful : the MySQL server is now split in two separate packages : mysql-server-core-5.1 that contains only the mysqld binary […]

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Miscellaneous

Etch security support discontinued by Debian on Feb. 15th…

The Debian security team announced that Debian 4.0 “Etch” security support  will be ended on February 15th, 2010 : Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 to be discontinued on February 15th One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias ‘lenny’ and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias ‘etch’ […]

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MySQL

MySQL 5.1.41 has been updated to fix a security issue

I just uploaded new MySQL 5.1.41 packages that fix a remote buffer overflow in MySQL servers that use the embedded YaSSL library : Lenz Grimmer gives more information about this issue CVE-2009-4484 has been filled Since Debian and Dotdeb are impacted, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade your servers.

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PHP

PHP 5.2.12 packages are here!

On December 17th 2009, the PHP Group released PHP 5.2.12 : The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.12. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 60 bug fixes, some of which are security related. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged […]