The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.0.

This release is a major leap forward in the 5.x series, and includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

The key features of PHP 5.4.0 include:

• New language syntax including Traits, shortened array syntax and more
• Improved performance and reduced memory consumption
• Support for multibyte languages now available in all builds of PHP at the flip of a runtime switch
• Built-in webserver in CLI mode to simplify development workflows and testing
• Cleaner code base thanks to the removal of multiple deprecated language features
• Many more improvements and fixes

more @ http://php.net/releases/5_4_0.php

Suhosin can be disabled by 2 methods:

1. Disable Suhosin using php.ini:

Open the php.ini file and add the following code:

[suhosin]
suhosin.simulation = On

NOTE: On means disabled and  Off means enabled.

Now restart the Apache2 server and Suhosin will be disabled.

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

2. Disable Suhosin for specific domain using  .htaccess file:

If you use eAccelerator and have updated your php5 version  you need to recompile the plugin.

First step is to go in to the source listing of your eAccelerator and follow the instructions:

In my case the source is located in /usr/src/.

cd /usr/src/eaccelerator/
make clean
phpize
make
make install

Don’t forget to restart your apache:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

How to put in it in the first place? See article Install and Integrate eAccelerator into PHP5 on Debian Squeeze

The Apache Software Foundation officially released the Apache 2.4 today as the first major update to this leading open-source web-server in more than a half-decade. Apache 2.4 is slated to deliver superior performance to its 2.2 predecessor and better compete with the growingly-popular NGINX web-server.

Besides much faster performance, among the many enhancements to the Apache 2.4 HTTP Server is better a-synchronous support in its core, run-time loadable MPMs, reduced memory usage compared to Apache 2.2.x, several new modules, enhancements to existing modules, and much more.

Apache HTTP Server 2.4 provides a number of improvements and enhancements over the 2.2 version.
List here:   http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/new_features_2_4.html

You can download Apache HTTP Server 2.4.1 from:  http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Apache 2.4 comes with new modules like:

mod_proxy_fcgi

mod_proxy_scgi

mod_proxy_express

mod_remoteip

mod_heartmonitor, mod_lbmethod_heartbeat

mod_proxy_html

mod_sed

mod_auth_form

mod_session

mod_allowmethods

mod_lua

mod_log_debug

mod_buffer

mod_data

mod_ratelimit

mod_request

mod_reflector

mod_slotmem_shm

mod_xml2enc

More info here: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.4.html

Piwik announces the immediate availability of Piwik 1.7 after weeks of development and testing.

• Download link

The Piwik team has been implementing new features based on your feedback and on Professional Services requests:

• New Web Analytics reports (Loyalty and Recency reports)
• Better performance when tracking hundreds or thousands of websites
• Improved PDF/HTML reports (now including Graphs, possible to add the “All Websites” dashboard to the reports)
• Better usability (Change Dashboard layouts, Plot specified metric on graphs)

screenshots of the new features: