#Debian 6 php 5.2 how to#
#Debian 6 php 5.2 install#
#Debian 6 php 5.2 update#
#Debian 6 php 5.2 driver#
#Debian 6 php 5.2 archive#

#Debian 6 php 5.2 update#

Now launch your favorite commands ( apt-get update & apt-get upgrade)Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В to upgrade your box and enjoy!Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚РЋor your information, I do NOT intend to publish PHP>=5.3.0 packages for Debian Etch, it would mean too much work to get clean packagesР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р вЂ™Р’В¦ PHP 5.2.10 (once fixed) will be last version available for Etch from Dotdeb.

#Debian 6 php 5.2 install#

To install them, just add these temporary entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Enchant support has been included as bonus feature Р РЋР вЂљР РЋРЎСџР Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›Р Р†Р вЂљРЎв„ўР В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚С›s theyР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›re just preview packages, the PHP 5.3.0-final ones are still on a separate repository.They will be as soon as the preview phase is over. All the PECL extension are not built yet.The Suhosin patch and the associated extension are not available yet (thatР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s what justifies the preview status).php5-ming moved to PECL and is not packaged anymore.php5-mhash, since its functions are emulated by ext/hash, disappeared and is now included in the core of PHP.The mail_extra_headers that allowed to insert the scriptР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s name in the sent mails has been included in the core of PHP and the ini variable is now mail.x_header.Please check your MySQL passwords in er before upgrading! Continued use of the old 16-byte passwords will cause mysql_connect() and similar functions to emit the error, Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎв„ўmysqlnd cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using old authentication.Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎС™.

#Debian 6 php 5.2 driver#

The migration from libmysqlclient to MySQL native driver is great in terms of performance and memory but have one restriction : it necessitates the use of MySQL 4.1Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s newer 41-byte password format.

#Debian 6 php 5.2 how to#

Ok, now that you read the Changelog and the migration guide, now that you know how to modify your script to migrate to PHP 5.3, you have to be aware of some changes introduced by Dotdeb and their consequences : Please read the migration guide very carefullyР В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В before going further! What are the changes from Dotdeb?

some bugs still exists and should be fixed with PHP 5.3.1Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚РЋor example, I experienced some strange behaviour with WordPress, Sweetcron or Roundcube and I had to patch them.

some extensions (ming, ncursesР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р вЂ™Р’В¦) moved to PECL, others (mime_magic, mhash) are just emulated.

many and many fonctions and features are deprecated or changed.

The elePHPants march (credit : DragonBe) Be careful!Р В РІР‚СњР вЂ™Р’Вepending of your applications, PHP 5.3Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В may not be fully compatible with 5.2 out of the box :

dirty and unsafe features (register_globals, safe_mode, magic_quotes*) removal.

MySQL native driver that avoid the libmysqlclient dependency, increases the overall performances and adds great features (real persistance, asynchronous queries).

#Debian 6 php 5.2 archive#

ext/phar to bundle complete application in an archive.

In my (sysadmin) opinion, the best features are : This is a great news and a big step for PHP, that gets cleaner and speedier (for example, read this benchmark of ezPublish performance boost with PHP 5.3.0). 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.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚РЋor users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.0.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚РЋurther 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. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0.

Open sources.Read carefully this announce from PHP.net and its links :.

This answer would not be complete without repeating the 'simple sid backport' instructions given by the dpkg bot on :

You can consider upgrading to debian testing (which is not so bad when testing is under freeze, as Debian Wheezy is as of this writing). If no backport is available, and a simple sid backport is not possible, then you probably will not be able to get the package working on your system.

If not available, do a simple sid backport: (use the dev libraries installed on your system to compile the package sources from debian testing or unstable).

Check out, see if the package you want is there - this is the 'supported' way.

Debian stable is designed to be really, really stable thus using newer versions of packages is usually not supported, often tricky and/or a bad idea, and sometimes impossible.