Release

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. The migration guide is available in the PHP Manual. Please consult it for the detailed list of new features and backward incompatible changes. ...

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.

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.

Redis 3.0.5 has been released on October 15th 2015, bringing some replication fixes and new cluster features. The upgrade urgency moderate : the most important thing is a fix in the replication code that may make the slave hanging forever if the master remains with an open socket even if it is no longer able to reply. The packages are now available : for Debian 8 “Jessie”, Debian 7 “Wheezy” and Debian 6 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

On October 1st 2015, the PHP group released PHP 5.5.30. This is a security release. Two security bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.5.30 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. The following modules have been packaged too : apcu 4.0.7 gearman 0.8.3 geoip 1.0.8 imagick 3.1.2 memcache 3.0.8 memcached 2.2.0 mongo 1.6.11 pecl_http 1.7.6 pinba (master) redis 2.2.7 spplus 1.1 ssh2 0.12 xcache 3.2.0 xdebug 2.3.2 xhprof 0.9.4 Please read the Changelog before upgrading.

On October 1st 2015, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.14. Two security bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.6.14 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.

Redis 3.0.4 has been released on September 8th 2015, bringing some important fixes and new replication features. The upgrade urgency is high for Redis and Sentinel. However note that in order to fix certain replication bugs, the replication internals were modified in a very heavy way. So while this release is conceptually saner, it may contain regressions. For this reason, before the release, QA activities were performed by me ( antirez) and Redis Labs and no evident bug was found. ...

Zabbix 2.2.10 has been released on August 10th 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 7.0 “Wheezy and 6.0 “Squeeze”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

On September 4th 2015, the PHP group released PHP 5.4.45. Ten security-related issues were fixed in this release. All PHP 5.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. (…) Please note that according to the PHP version support timelines, PHP 5.4.45 is the last scheduled release of PHP 5.4 branch. There may be additional release if we discover important security issues that warrant it, otherwise this release will be the final one in the PHP 5.4 branch. If your PHP installation is based on PHP 5.4, it may be a good time to start making the plans for the upgrade to PHP 5.5 or PHP 5.6. ...