PHP 5.2.7 is released, but with broken magic_quotes_gpc

05Dec2008
Written by Jesper Wallin

A bug causing magic_quotes_gpc to fail

After about 7 months of development, PHP announced that 5.2.7 is released. However, short after the release, a bug was found which cause filters and magic_quotes_gpc to not work properly. It is recommended to not install this version and new release fixing this bug is expected shortly. In the meanwhile, adding the following line into your php.ini will solve the problem…

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UNIXBlog is ready to go live!

10Dec2008
Written by Jesper Wallin

Finally ready for the public

After about a month of hard work and very little sleep, we're proud to announce that UNIXBlog.org goes live! So far, we've only managed to write one article but there are plenty more to come. If you wish to give us ideas about things to write, don't hesitate contacting us!

The framework behind this

As for the website itself, it consist of ~2000 lines of optimized PHP code and ~700 lines of valid HTML and CSS. It's a lightweight template…

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PHP 5.2.8 is now available

09Dec2008
Written by Jesper Wallin

Early after 5.2.7 was released

A few days after 5.2.7 was released, PHP now announce the immediate availability of 5.2.8. This release addresses a serious security flaw which was introduced in 5.2.7 which were released a few days ago.

Get the latest PHP

PHP 5.2.8 can be downloaded from the official download page and all users who have upgraded to 5.2.7 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 5.2.8 as soon as possible.

Slackware 12.2 has been released

11Dec2008
Written by Jesper Wallin

"Yes folks, 'tis the season to announce a new release of Slackware. With a shiny new kernel, many package updates, and the newly added ability to install from a Samba share, we bring to you the latest in the stable Slackware 12.x series."

Slackware 12.2 is finally out and comes with a lot of nice upgrades…

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Apache 2.2.11 has been released

15Dec2008
Written by Jesper Wallin

The Apache HTTP Server project proudly announces that version 2.2.11 has been released. As this is mainly a bugfix release, it has a few new features/improvements worth looking into. For example, the cache modules has undergone a lot of changes, the event MPM uses a separate thread for accepting new connections and handling Keep-Alive requests, mod_filter has been…

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