ibiblio services/changes announcement list

[Fred Stutzman <fred AT metalab.unc.edu>]

1) Greetings, PEAR XML-RPC has been upgraded on the web servers, in 
response to current vulnerabilities recently disclosed.  As of right now, 
we are running PEAR XML-RPC 1.4.0 stable.  Applications that utilize PEAR 
XML-RPC will be affected.  The changelog is linked below:

http://pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC/download/

Note: You must still upgrade your php-based web applications, especially 
DRUPAL.  Many apps (non-exhaustive list) bundle an xmlrpc library with the 
software.  Our core php upgrade may not fix your problem.

2) This also serves as a notice that ibiblio will be moving to PHP 4.4.0 in 
the somewhat-near future.  This is the latest stable release, though it 
does look like it will be substantially rocky upgrade for some.  I 
encourage users to look at the following pages so they can start getting up 
to speed on the changes that will be made:

http://www.php.net/downloads.php#v4
- IMPORTANT - http://www.php.net/release_4_4_0.php
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php#4.4.0

Once php is upgraded on the development server, users will have no less 
than 2 weeks to test and fix code for the upgrade.  I am sending this out 
in advance so that developers can start creating strategies for the 
migration.  You will be informed in another ibiblio-announce message when 
the new php is running on the dev server.

Thanks,
Fred



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