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.
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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.
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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.
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We’ve updated the MySQL database software on our servers from version 5.5.35 to 5.5.37 for security reasons.
Customers should not notice any changes, as the update merely fixes bugs and doesn’t introduce new features. But as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
In recent days, Yahoo and AOL made technical changes that prevented their own users from sending messages to most mailing lists. (That’s a simplified summary; your favorite search engine will show the gory details if you search for “Yahoo DMARC mailing lists”.)
If you use the Mailman software to run discussion lists, like many of our customers, this is a problem. To fix it, the authors of the Mailman software are making a new version to work around the Yahoo and AOL change.
That new version hasn’t been officially released yet, but we think this is so important that we’ve upgraded our installed copy of Mailman to a “pre-release” version of the fixed software.
Yahoo and AOL users should now be able to send to our customers’ Mailman lists without trouble.
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We’ve upgraded the default version of the Perl scripting language on all our servers to the 5.14 series (specifically, to version 5.14.2 plus Debian security patches).
Most of our customers don’t use Perl, but those who do should not notice any problems. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you need assistance.
We’ve upgraded the default version of the Python scripting language on all our servers to the Python 2.7 series (specifically, to version 2.7.3 plus Debian security patches).
The older version 2.6 series of Python was also updated from 2.6.6 to 2.6.8 (plus Debian security patches).
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The PHP developers recently released versions 5.4.26 and 5.5.10 that fix several bugs. We’ve updated PHP 5.4 and 5.5 on our servers as a result.
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The PHP developers recently released versions 5.4.25 and 5.5.9 that fix several bugs. We’ve updated PHP 5.4 and 5.5 on our servers as a result.
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We’ve updated phpMyAdmin to the latest version, 4.1.8.
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