On March 31st 2016, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.5. This is a security release. Several security bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Packages of PHP 7.0.5 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Please note that : PHP 7 and PHP 5 from Jessie are now co-installable on the same machine Packages of the following PECL extensions are now available : APCu, APCu_bc, geoip, igbinary, imagick, memcached, mongodb, msgpack, redis and xdebug. Careful, PHP 7 support from some of them is still very young. The thread-safe version of all these packages will be published soon. As usual : ...

On March 3rd 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.5.33. This is a security release in which two security bugs were fixed. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.5.33 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. The following modules have been packaged too : apcu 4.0.7 gearman 0.8.3 geoip 1.0.8 imagick 3.1.2 memcache 3.0.8 memcached 2.2.0 mongo 1.6.11 pecl_http 1.7.6 pinba (master) redis 2.2.7 spplus 1.1 ssh2 0.12 xcache 3.2.0 xdebug 2.3.2 xhprof 0.9.4 Please read the Changelog before upgrading. ...

On March 3rd 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.19. This is a security release in which several security bugs were fixed. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.6.19 packages are now available for Debian 7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures, in ZTS and non-ZTS (default) flavors, along with the usual PECL extensions.

On March 3rd 2016, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.4. This is a security release. Several security bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Packages of PHP 7.0.4 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Please note that : PHP 7 and PHP 5 from Jessie are now co-installable on the same machine Packages of the following PECL extensions are now available : APCu, APCu_bc, igbinary, imagick, memcached, mongodb, msgpack, redis and xdebug. Careful, PHP 7 support from some of them is still very young. the memcached.serializer is now igbinary by default. You should change it back to php if you’re upgrading from a previous version. The thread-safe version of all these packages will be published soon. As usual : ...

MySQL 5.6.29 has been released by Oracle on February 5th 2016. Please read the full Changelog fore more details. The corresponding packages are now available for Debian 7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

On February 4th 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.18. This is a security release. Several security bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.6.18 packages are now available for Debian 7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures, in ZTS and non-ZTS (default) flavors, along with the usual PECL extensions.

Redis 3.0.7 has been released on January 28th 2016, bringing important bug fixes for Redis Cluster. The upgrade urgency is moderate. The packages are now available : for Debian 8 “Jessie”, Debian 7 “Wheezy” and Debian 6 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

On February 4th 2016, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.3. This is a security release. Several security bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Packages of PHP 7.0.3 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Please note that : PHP 7 and PHP 5 from Jessie are now co-installable on the same machine Packages of the following PECL extensions are now available : APCu, APCu_bc, igbinary, imagick, memcached, mongodb, msgpack, redis and xdebug. Careful, PHP 7 support from some of them is still very young. the memcached.serializer is now igbinary by default. You should change it back to php if you’re upgrading from a previous version. The thread-safe version of all these packages will be published soon. As usual : ...

Nginx 1.8.1 has been released on January 26th 2016, to fix three security issues in its resolver. As a consequence, packages of Nginx 1.8.1 are now available : for Debian 8 “Jessie”, Debian 7 “Wheezy” and Debian 6 “Squeeze” On both amd64 and i386 architectures. Please also note that ngx_pagespeed has been updated to : version 1.10.33.2 on Jessie only version 1.9.32.11 on Wheezy and Squeeze, because the 1.10 branch now requires GCC 4.8+. Usage of ngx_pagespeed on Wheezy and Squeeze has been kept for compatibility purpose but is highly discouraged. Upgrade to Jessie instead. For more details about which modules are included in the different Nginx flavors, just have to look at this document. ...

On January 7th 2016, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.2. 31 reported bugs has been fixed, including 6 security related issues. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Packages of PHP 7.0.2 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Please note that : You should remove any PHP5 packages before upgrading Packages of the PECL extensions (Memcache, Memcached, Mongo, Redis, Xdebug…) are still missing. The thread-safe version of all these packages will be published soon. Please make sure that you understand the above PHP/Debian/Dotdeb changes and that you don’t need any of the missing features/packages. Your feedbacks are always welcome. Just make sure they are useful. ...