The PHP developers recently released versions 5.4.39, 5.5.23 and 5.6.7 that fix several bugs. We’ve upgraded PHP 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6 on our servers as a result.
These changes should not be noticeable, but in the unlikely event you experience any trouble, don’t hesitate to contact us.
We’ve added experimental support for the new PHP 5.6 series, although the default for new accounts remains PHP version 5.5 for now.
Adventurous customers can choose PHP 5.6 as a new option in our My Account control panel. Keep in mind that some scripts are not yet compatible with PHP 5.6, and there may be unexpected problems because it’s new and relatively untested.
If you try it and have any trouble, contact us and we’ll do our best to help.
The PHP developers recently released versions 5.4.38 and 5.5.22 that fix several bugs. We’re upgrading PHP 5.4 and 5.5 on our servers as a result. This will be complete on all servers within 24 hours.
These changes should not be noticeable, but in the unlikely event you experience any trouble, don’t hesitate to contact us.
The PHP developers recently released versions 5.4.37 and 5.5.21 that fix several bugs. We’re upgrading PHP 5.4 and 5.5 on our servers as a result. This will be complete on all servers within 24 hours.
These changes should not be noticeable, but in the unlikely event you experience any trouble, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Although we haven’t offered the long-obsolete PHP 5.2 series to new customers for some time, some who signed up long ago are still using it.
(New customers have defaulted to using PHP 5.5 for the last few months, and PHP 5.3 was the default for several years before that. We’ve also previously nagged everyone still using PHP 5.2 by e-mail, asking them to upgrade to at least PHP 5.3.)
For those customers still using PHP 5.2 despite the nagging, this is just a quick note that we’ve “rebuilt” PHP 5.2.17 for technical reasons to allow it to keep running on our systems. It now uses slightly newer versions of various libraries, including libxml, FreeType, ImageMagick, MySQL, and OpenSSL. The rebuilt version will be deployed on all our servers within the next few hours.
These changes should not be noticeable. In the unlikely event you experience any trouble, don’t hesitate to contact us.
The PHP developers recently released versions 5.4.36 and 5.5.20 that fix several bugs. We’re upgrading PHP 5.4 and 5.5 on our servers as a result. This will be complete on all servers by 5 PM Pacific time on Monday (January 6).
In addition, PHP 5.3.29 has been upgraded to use ionCube Loader 4.7.3.
These changes should not be noticeable, but in the unlikely event you experience any trouble, don’t hesitate to contact us.
The PHP developers recently released versions 5.3.29, 5.4.34, and 5.5.18 that fix several bugs. We’re upgrading PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 on our servers as a result (this will be complete on all servers within 24 hours).
These changes should not be noticeable, but in the unlikely event you experience any trouble, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Update October 14: This process described below is complete. All the updates were installed, and we’re now using only Debian wheezy on all servers.
Over the last year, we’ve been slowly upgrading our servers from Debian Linux version 6 (codename “squeeze”) to version 7 (codename “wheezy”).
All the “prominent” software (such as the Apache Web server, MySQL, PHP, the Linux kernel, and so on) was updated months ago, one piece at a time, usually with individual announcements here on our blog. Any software with security or compatibility issues has also already been upgraded.
What’s left at the end of that process are many “minor” packages, each probably used by less than 1% of our customers. We’ll be upgrading the rest of these over the next 30 days.
The PHP developers recently released versions 5.4.31 and 5.5.15 that fix several bugs. We’ve updated PHP 5.4 and 5.5 on our servers as a result.
The PHP developers recently released versions 5.4.29 and 5.5.13 that fix several bugs. We’ve updated PHP 5.4 and 5.5 on our servers as a result.
