On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a news draft for the move of the php packages to [extra] which > should happen later this week. Let me know if I miss anything or how I > could improve this news item. > > --- > PHP has been updated to its latest major release 5.4. The upstream > changelog can be found at http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php, a detailed > migration guide is at http://de.php.net/migration54. > > In addition to this the following packaging changes have been made: > * The Suhosin patch and extension have been removed. Learn more about > the reasoning behind this decision at > https://pierre-schmitz.com/php-5-4-1-in-suhosin-out/ > * The json module is now built into PHP itself. Therefor remove the
typo, add comma: Therefor -> Therefore, > "extension=json.so" directive from your php.ini file. > * The gd extension has been built with webp support using the libvpx > library. > > Make sure to merge the changes of php.ini into your local copy; or > probably easier: adjust the new php.ini to your needs. > > Last but not least: especially if you are running old scripts make sure maybe add comma: old scripts -> old scripts, > they do not rely on features like Safe Mode or Magic Quotes. As these > features were removed an update to PHP 5.4 will result in serious add comma: were removed -> were removed, > security holes. > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
