When PHP5 port will be updated?

Martin Tournoij carpetsmoker at xs4all.nl
Thu Sep 13 08:46:50 PDT 2007


On Thu 13 Sep 2007 20:09, LI Xin wrote:
> Ted Nicolson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > PHP 5.2.4 has been released three weeks ago, but still is not available for
> > FreeBSD (5.2.3 is the latest portversion)
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116182
> > 
> > According to the above pr, "PHP 5 versions before 5.2.4 have numerous
> > security vulnerabilities" that have been addressed with the latest version.
> >  I've heared that the cause of the delay is the lack of a compatible Suhosin
> > patch. Same happened months ago with a previous php5 release. If this is the
> > reason of delay, then please split the port in two new ones, with and
> > without Suhosin.
> > 
> >  Any idea when the updated php5 port will be released?
> 
> I think ale@ is working on it, plus some new proposed changes in our PR
> database.  Because php5 is a widely used port so he may want to test it
> for more time.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!

If you really want to update php to 5.2.4 you can use this patch:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/116188

Note that I wouldn't recommend using this patch, the security issues
in 5.2.3 are not very serious, and this patch doesn't include the
Suhosin patch.

Regards,
Martin Tournoij


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