Release

Redis 2.4.9 has been released with these changes : [FEATURE] Redis server is now able to test your memory for broken RAM. Usage: ./redis-server –test-memory. [FEATURE] redis-benchmark backported from unstable. Pipelining, run selected tests, and a few more features. [BUGFIX] utils/install_server.sh script now works on Redhat / Centos. [BUGFIX] Minor fix to redis-cli (github issue #306). The packages of Redis 2.4.9 are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. They now supports higher than 922 values of maxclients, thanks to @jbfavre.

Nginx 1.0.14 packages are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. They fix a potential memory disclosure : Security: content of previously freed memory might be sent to a client if backend returned specially crafted response. Thanks to Matthew Daley. Upgrading is strongly recommended.

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.

Percona toolkit 2.0.4 is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”. You’ll find its Changelog here and an announce by Baron Schwartz here.

MySQL 5.1.61 packages are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on amd64 and i386 architectures. This is a very important security update that fixes unspecified vulnerabilities identified by Oracle in all versions of MySQL 5.1 earlier than 5.1.61. If you did not upgrade to MySQL 5.5, please consider upgrading your MySQL server (at least) to 5.1.61. FYI, CVE list is as follows : CVE-2011-2262 CVE-2012-0075 CVE-2012-0087 CVE-2012-0101 CVE-2012-0102 CVE-2012-0112 CVE-2012-0113 CVE-2012-0114 CVE-2012-0115 CVE-2012-0116 CVE-2012-0118 CVE-2012-0119 CVE-2012-0120 CVE-2012-0484 CVE-2012-0485 CVE-2012-0490 CVE-2012-0492. The corresponding Pinba storage engine has also been rebuilt. ...

Nginx 1.0.13 packages are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. Here are the changes on the Dotdeb side : nginx-upload-module has been added to nginx-extras nginx-auth-pam has been added to nginx-extras and nginx-full. Closes #5. http_secure_link_module has been added to nginx-full. Closes #3. file-aio is now supported by all nginx flavors ngxensite/ ngxdissite scripts are available to enable/disable sites. Closes #4. Please take a look at Nginx’ Changelog before upgrading.

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. ...

Redis 2.4.8 has been released with these changes : [BUGFIX] Make install now uses cp -f to avoid ’text file busy’ errors. [BUGFIX] redis-check-aof is now large files safe also on 32 bit systems. [BUGFIX] Issue #327 fixed: maxmemory and replication now work much better. [BUGFIX] Now HINCRBY can detect overflows too. Fix for issue #330. [BUGFIX] Fixed compilation with latest clang. [BUGFIX] Fixed handling of empty sorted sets produced in RDB by very old Redis versions (1.2.x). The upgrade urgency is moderate if you don’t experience any of the fixed problems. ...

A quick note to announce that Percona toolkit 2.0.3 is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. You’ll find its Changelog here.

The packages of MySQL 5.5.20 are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures, with the following changes : the mysql-common package should now work with MySQL 5.1 packages without any problem (unknown configuration variables in /etc/mysql/my.cnf have been commented out) mysql-server-5.5 now supports Linux native asynchronous IO As usual, please read the full Changelog carefully before upgrading.