On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> 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