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The PHP 5.3.1 packages for Debian “Lenny” have been updated to fix : the php5-fpm binary the /etc/init.d/php5-fpm script All should work fine now.

The official announcement A few days ago, the PHP Group released PHP 5.3.1 : The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.1. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 100 bug fixes, some of which are security related. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.1: Added “max_file_uploads” INI directive, which can be set to limit the number of file uploads per-request to 20 by default, to prevent possible DOS via temporary file exhaustion. Added missing sanity checks around exif processing. Fixed a safe_mode bypass in tempnam(). Fixed a open_basedir bypass in posix_mkfifo(). Fixed failing safe_mode_include_dir. Further details about the PHP 5.3.1 release can be found in the release announcement, and the full list of changes are available in the ChangeLog. ...

PHP 5.2.11 has been published a few days ago by the PHP Group and its packages are now available for Debian Etch and Lenny, amd64 and i386. It fixes a lot of bugs and some security issues : Fixed certificate validation inside php_openssl_apply_verification_policy. (Ryan Sleevi, Ilia) Fixed sanity check for the color index in imagecolortransparent(). (Pierre) Added missing sanity checks around exif processing. (Ilia) Fixed bug #44683 (popen crashes when an invalid mode is passed). (Pierre) To avoid the same negative feedbacks as about PHP 5.2.10, a lot of debug and changes has been made : ...

The official announce of PHP 5.3.0 Read carefully this announce from PHP.net and its links : The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. 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: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more. For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.0. Further details about the PHP 5.3.0 release can be found in the release announcement, and the full list of changes are available in the ChangeLog. ...

A few days ago, the PHP development team announced the availability of PHP 5.2.10 with many improvements and 100+ bug fixes. Here is the Changelog. Now that the corresponding Suhosin patch is alive, the PHP 5.2.10 packages are available on Dotdeb : for Debian Lenny and Etch for the amd64 and i386 architectures Upgrading your servers is highly recommanded. Update : The PHP 5.2.10 packages seem to be buggy under (un)certain conditions : (f)CGI + Suhosin. Then I decided to rollback to 5.2.9 to avoid a flood a users’ requests and to give me time to investigate. If your PHP 5.2.10 does not encounter problems, keep it, you’re lucky 

From PHP.net : The PHP development team is proud to announce the fourth release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 (PHP 5.3.0RC4). This RC focuses on bug fixes and stability improvements, and we hope only minimal changes are required for the next candidate or final stable releases. PHP 5.3.0 is a newly developed version of PHP featuring long-awaited features like namespaces, late static binding, closures and much more. Please download and test these release candidates, and report any issues found. A stable release is expected next week . In case of critical issues we will continue producing weekly RCs. Downloads and further information is available at qa.php.net. See also the work in progress 5.3 upgrade guide. ...

The third (and probably the last) release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 has been published by the PHP Group a few days ago. Then I updated the preview packages for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” on amd64 and i386. To fetch them, just add these temporary entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list and upgrade your boxes : deb http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all deb-src http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all Please note that an upgrade guide is being written. You also may want to visit this page.

A few days ago, the second release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 has been published by the PHP Group. I just updated the preview packages for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” on amd64 and i386. Have fun!

The PHP 5.2.9 packages for Etch/Lenny amd64/i386 have been updated : some obsolete ./configure options have been deleted the sigchild support has been dropped a memory leak has been fixed

A few days ago, the first release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 has been published by the PHP Group, providing many improvements : Namespaces support Late static binding MySQL native driver Phar support… I just built the packages for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” on amd64 and i386 and I will maintain them during the whole release cycle (RC2 and so on…). Please note that they should NOT be installed on production servers : Suhosin and some important patches are not applied, PECL extensions are not available (yet)… They’re here for testing purpose only. ...