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Latest Updates, Nginx 1.2.9, Zend OPcache for PHP 5.4 on CentOS/RHEL 6

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Andy Thompson

Here are updated packages in the Yum repository:

Nginx 1.2.9 update for CentOS 6
Zend OPcache 7.0.1 (php54w-pecl-zendopcache package) for PHP 5.4 on CentOS 6 changelog
Memcache 3.0.8 (php54w-pecl-memcache package) for PHP 5.4 on CentOS 6 changelog
Xdebug 2.2.2 (php54w-pecl-xdebug package) for PHP 5.4 on CentOS 6 changelog

The Nginx 1.2 release contains a security fix for CVE-2013-2070.

The Zend OPcache is Zend’s now open-source Zend Optimizer Plus opcode cache, which is a Pecl extension now, and will also be bundled with the next PHP minor release 5.5.

The PHP extension updates are to put the extensions in line for the future release of PHP 5.5 on Webtatic, which is in the works for when it is released on PHP.net

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Infrastructure change: multi-region yum repository

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Andy Thompson

No data-centre can truly say they can guarantee infrastructure with 100% uptime, and neither can the one Webtatic has been hosted on, so the Webtatic repository is now going multi-data-centre and multi-region, giving it the possibility of being up and running even if one data-centre has issues.

Previously, Webtatic has been hosted in a single data-centre in east USA, with a backup AWS S3 bucket ready to serve on manual intervention. This I feel hasn’t been adequate enough, so the last week I’ve been preparing changes to the repository so that even if a data-centre has connectivity issues, this should not affect your use of the repository.

The new changes bring in an additional mirror of the repository active all the time, which Yum will chose as another source for the repository.

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Latest updates, PHP 5.4.15 / 5.3.25

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Andy Thompson

Here are updated packages in the Yum repository:

The PHP 5.3 and 5.4 releases mention no CVE security issues fixed.

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Latest updates, PHP 5.4.14 / 5.3.24

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Andy Thompson

Here are updated packages in the Yum repository:

The PHP 5.3 and 5.4 releases mention no CVE security issues fixed.

Due to mysql55 being prepared for release on Webtatic 6 for RHEL/CentOS 6, the PHP 5.4 releases 5.4.12, 5.4.13 were inadvertently linking the mysql extension to it’s latest client library, causing new installations to require/install MySQL 5.5 client library. This has been fixed, and as of this release will correctly link to the RHEL/CentOS base mysql client libraries.

A new package, php54w-mysql55 has been added which uses the MySQL 5.5 client library for compatibility and a replacement for php54w-mysql should you prefer to use MySQL 5.5. A similar package may be created in the future for mysqlnd (PHP MySql native driver).

The mysql55 release 5.3.31 is not yet ready on CentOS 6, due more work needed to resolve incompatibilities between CentOS 6.4 and earlier CentOS 6.* releases.

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