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Now that PHP 5.4.0 packages have been published as preview, issues have to be fixed. That’s why these packages have been updated with the following changes : gzopen64() has been wrongly introduced on the i386 architecture, instead of the regular gzopen(). It is now fixed. PCRE functions did not support Unicode. That’s ok now. APC has been packaged as php5-apc against its svn/trunk version. It should now work well. Still waiting for an official release. Xdebug should appear very soon is now available in 2.2.0RC1 version. Thanks for your useful reports.

After many months of active development, PHP 5.4.0 is now generally available : The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.4.0. 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: traits, a shortened array syntax, a built-in webserver for testing purposes and more. PHP 5.4.0 significantly improves performance, memory footprint and fixes over 100 bugs. For users upgrading from PHP 5.3 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.4.0. Further details about the PHP 5.4.0 release can be found in the release announcement, and the full list of changes are available in the ChangeLog. ...

A few hours ago, PHP 5.3.10 has been released by the PHP Group. It’s an important security update for PHP 5.3.9 users : Stefan Esser discovered a remotely exploitable bug, introduced with PHP 5.3.9’s max_input_vars directive (CVE-2012-0830). You really should upgrade as soon as possible. Packages of PHP 5.3.10 are now available for : both Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” and Debian 5.0 “Lenny”, both amd64 and i386 architectures. (Lenny packages will be available on php53.dotdeb.org during two weeks before being migrated to archives.dotdeb.org because of the end of Lenny’s security support)

A few days ago, Stefan Esser discovered a buffer overflow in the “transparent cookie encryption stack” of the Suhosin extension. Here is the full advisory. If you previously installed the php5-suhosin package, you should upgrade to its fixed new version (0.9.33) by running : apt-get update apt-get install --reinstall php5-suhosin

On january 10th 2012, the PHP group has released PHP 5.3.9, that brings over 90 bug fixes, some of which are security related : Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.9: Added max_input_vars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions. (CVE-2011-4885) Fixed bug #60150 (Integer overflow during the parsing of invalid exif header). (CVE-2011-4566) Key enhancements in PHP 5.3.9 include: Fixed bug #55475 (is_a() triggers autoloader, new optional 3rd argument to is_a and is_subclass_of). Fixed bug #55609 (mysqlnd cannot be built shared) Many changes to the FPM SAPI module PHP 5.3.9 is now available on Dotdeb for : ...

On August 18th, the PHP Group released PHP 5.3.7 with many security enhancements and many bugfixes. Sadly, it suffered from an issue with the crypt() function , forcing the PHP Group to publish PHP 5.3.8 (that fixes a mysqlnd issue with SSL connections too). I’m glad too announce that PHP 5.3.8 packages are now available on Dotdeb for both amd64 and i386 architectures : for Debian 6.0 Squeeze : on the main Dotdeb repository for Debian 5.0 “Lenny” : on php53.dotdeb.org Ugrading to PHP 5.3.8 is strongly recommended, but please read the Changelog before.

On March 17th, the PHP Group released PHP 5.3.6. This maintainance release, that focuses on security, is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” in amd64 and i386 flavours. The compatibility with the official Debian packages has been improved and you (especially the FPM users) should really take care of some important changes that I made : the intl extension is now built in a separate package : php5-intl the FPM binary is now /usr/sbin/php5-fpm (previously /usr/bin/php5-fpm) the FPM configuration file is now /etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf (previously /etc/php5/fpm/php5-fpm.conf) the FPM pools have to be moved to /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/ (previously /etc/php5/fpm/pools/) As usual, please read the Changelog before upgrading. ...

Do you know Pinba? It’s a great tool and you really should use it on your LAMP platform. Pinba is a realtime monitoring/statistics server for PHP using MySQL as a read-only interface. It accumulates and processes data sent over UDP by multiple PHP processes and displays statistics in a nice human-readable form of simple " reports", also providing read-only interface to the raw data in order to make possible generation of more sophisticated reports and stats. With Pinba extension users also can measure particular parts of the code using timers with arbitrary tags. Pinba is not a debugging tool in a common sense, since you’re not supposed to do debugging on production servers, but its main goal is to help developers to monitor performance of PHP scripts, locate bottlenecks in realtime and direct developers’ attention to the code that really needs it. ...

I just released PHP 5.3.5 packages for Debian 6.0 (a.k.a “Squeeze”), with some changes against the Lenny’s ones : the packaging process has been improved : dependencies were cleaned up, PHP tests are now displayed, libtool 2.2 is now supported (thanks to the Debian team for their precious work) 3 new useful extensions have been packaged : gearman, phpredis and xhprof (without its interface files) With these new packages, Dotdeb’s support for Squeeze is still experimental, but almost complete. Some more packages could be added in a near future : ...

A few days after releasing PHP 5.3.4 and PHP 5.2.16, the PHP group announced an important security update with PHP 5.3.5 and PHP 5.2.17 : This release resolves a critical issue, reported as PHP bug #53632 and CVE-2010-4645, where conversions from string to double might cause the PHP interpreter to hang on systems using x87 FPU registers. The problem is known to only affect x86 32-bit PHP processes, regardless of whether the system hosting PHP is 32-bit or 64-bit. You can test whether your system is affected by running this script from the command line. All users of PHP are strongly advised to update to these versions immediately. ...