On January 7th 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.17. 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 5.6.17 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 December 17th 2015, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.1. Several bugs have been fixed. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Packages of PHP 7.0.1 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Please note that : You should remove any PHP5 packages before upgrading The bz2 and xmlrpc modules are now packaged separately, respectively name php7.0-bz2 and php7.0-xmlrpc. Packages of the PECL extensions (Memcache, Memcached, Mongo, Redis, Xdebug…) are still missing and require some work from me. 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. ...

Redis 3.0.6 has been released on December 18th 2015, bringing some fixes and features backports from 3.2. The upgrade urgency is moderate : We fixed a crash that happens very rarely, so updating does not hurt, but most users are unlikely to experience this condition because it requires some odd timing. However if you are a Redis Cluster user, upgrading is strongly adviced since this release includes very important improvements to Redis Cluster. ...

On December 3rd 2015, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.0. PHP 7.0.0 comes with a new version of the Zend Engine, numerous improvements and new features such as : Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6 Significantly reduced memory usage Abstract Syntax Tree Consistent 64-bit support Improved Exception hierarchy Many fatal errors converted to Exceptions Secure random number generator Removed old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions The null coalescing operator (??) Return and Scalar Type Declarations Anonymous Classes Zero cost asserts The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog. ...

On November 26th 2015, the PHP group published the eighth release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 8 contains fixes for 11 reported bugs. (…) This release candidate prepares the short jump to the RTM. If no major issues appear, the 7.0.0 general availability (GA) release will be brought out on December 3rd. You can also read the full list of planned releases on our wiki. ...

On November 26th 2015, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.16. Several bugs have been fixed. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.6.16 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 November 12th 2015, the PHP group published the seventh release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 7 contains fixes for 17 reported bugs. (…) This release candidate is unplanned and ships instead of the announced RTM for the reasons of yet additional quality improvement. If no major issues appear within the usual two-week test period, the 7.0.0 general availability (GA) release will be brought out. You can also read the full list of planned releases on our wiki. ...

Zabbix 2.2.11 has been released on November 12th 2015. This release fixes known issues of Zabbix 2.2.x and introduces new minor features. Please read the release notes for more info. As usual, the packages are now available : for Debian 7 “Wheezy and 6 “Squeeze”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

On October 29th 2015, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.15. Several bugs have been fixed. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.6.15 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 October 29th 2015, the PHP group published the sixth release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 6 contains fixes for 10 reported bugs and marks the end of the pre-release circle. Packages of PHP 7.0-RC6 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Disclaimer : THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW (from a PHP upstream and from a Dotdeb/Debian packaging perspectives) - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! ...