Software-update: Zend Server 5.6 Hotfix 1

Het ontwikkelteam van Zend heeft een eerste Hotfix vrijgegeven voor Zend Server 5.6. Zend Server is een complete webapplicatieserver, gericht op het draaien en beheren van php-applicaties. Het ondersteunt Linux, Mac OS X, Windows en IBM i-omgevingen. Voor meer informatie verwijzen we naar deze pagina. De beknopte lijst met aanpassingen van deze hotfix ziet er als volgt uit:

Announcing the release of Zend Server 5.6 Hotfix 1:

This hotfix resolves an issue found in the Zend Monitor component of Zend Server 5.6: under certain circumstances, the Zend Monitor component produces a redundant HTTP cookie on each request to the application server. This hotfix replaces the Zend Monitor component to avoid creation of such cookies.

For Linux: install the hotfix by updating the Zend Server packages using the package manager available on your Linux system (yum, aptitude, zypper)
For Windows: download the hotfix package from the Zend Server Downloads page and install on top of Zend Server 5.6
For Mac OS X: download the hotfix package from the Zend Server Downloads page, extract files from the archive, and follow the installation instructions found in the file HotFix.txt

Announcing the release of Zend Server 5.6:

Zend is pleased to announce the availability of Zend Server and Zend Server Cluster Manager 5.6.0, for Windows and Linux platforms. These releases include improvements to performance and stability, as well as the following:

• Significant improvements have been made to the Job Queue mechanism to provide better fault tolerance and high availbaility. However, these changes may require some additional tuning for users of Job Queue with high job loads. Please contact Zend Support before upgrading for free assistance in tuning and migration.
• PHP 5.3 packages upgraded to 5.3.9
• PHP 5.2 packages updated to include fix for CVE-2011-4885
• Zend Framework packages upgraded to 1.11.11
• Zend Server Web API 1.3, now with access to Zend Monitor and Code Tracing data
• Improved upgradability from Zend Server Community Edition to Zend Server

Zend is pleased to announce, for the first time, the availability of Zend Server for the Mac OS platform. Important note: Zend Server for Mac OS is meant only for development use, not for production use.