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Miscellaneous

Dotdeb : Debian 5.0 “Lenny” support in progress…

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” has been published on last Valentine’s day. Although most of the Dotdeb packages for the previous release, “Etch”, are compatible with Lenny, it is now time for Dotdeb to have dedicated packages for this new distribution. I’m actually kind of busy at work, but I managed to build and upload the […]

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MySQL

MySQL 5.0.75 available

MySQL AB has just made MySQL 5.0.75 available. Even it is just a maintenance release – since the 5.1 branch is now golden – it is now packaged and uploaded to Dotdeb for Etch amd64/i386. Anyway, if you did not make the jump and still use MySQL 5.0, please upgrade your server, to fix some […]

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PHP

PHP 5.2.8 available [update]

The PHP Group released PHP 5.2.8 this morning to fix the magic_quotes_gpc issue. If you previously installed PHP 5.2.7-0.dotdeb.1 from Dotdeb and do not care about the version number displayed in your phpinfo(), save your bandwidth, your server is already secure šŸ™‚ Otherwise, just apt-get upgrade your LAMPĀ stack… [update] The packages have been upgraded toĀ 5.2.8-0.dotdeb.1Ā to […]

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PHP

PHP 5.2.7 updated because magic_quotes_gpc is broken

Stefan Esser has postedĀ a warning about upgrading PHP to the 5.2.7 release : (…)a change in the ext/filter extension that by default processes all incoming data, broke the magic_quotes_gpc feature. While magic_quotes_gpc itself is deprecated and it is recommended to not rely on it as protection against SQL injection, it is still used in many […]

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Mail

Vpopmail 5.4.25 updated

The Vpopmail 5.4.25 packages has been updated to fix a problem with passwords longer than 8 characters. The /etc/init.d/vpopmailĀ script has been updated to launch simultaneously : the (enabled by default) POP3 server the (disabled by default)Ā POP3-SSL server the (disabled by default)Ā Vpopmaild server depending on the settings in /etc/vpopmail/options.

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Mail

Vpopmail 5.4.25 is now packaged

Vpopmail 5.4.25 has been packaged for Etch amd64/i386 to fix some annoying bugs. It’s safe and recommanded to upgrade your servers to this version. For more information, read the officialĀ Changelog.

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MySQL

MySQL 5.0.67 available

Norbert Tretkowski recently worked on packaging MySQL 5.0.67, the latest Community Edition release of MySQL Server. But, since the next Debian version – Lenny – is already frozen, the packages were not uploaded to the official archive. Instead of that, I rebuilt them and made them available on Dotdeb for Etch amd64/i386. Please take a […]