Zend Guard for PHP 5.4 released

Hey, all.

I noticed a few days back that Zend has finally gotten around to releasing Zend Guard 6 for PHP 5.4. Which means, of course, that those of us with clients running Zend Guard code have forced us to sit on PHP 5.3 pending the release of new loaders. Those loaders are now out in the wild. So, the question is: What's the time frame for including the new Zend Guard loader in the PHP 5.4 configuration for EasyApache?

 

Thanks for the update. I very much appreciate it. I'll keep an eye out for the rollout. Updating to 5.4.x is a Good Thing.

 

Michael,

Is there any news you can offer with regard to a potential release time frame? We're going on two months later and the new Zend still hasn't found its way to production in WHM.

Cheers.

 

Thanks, Scott. My primary concern is being able to move off of PHP 5.3.x before it reaches official EOL (March 2014, if I recall correctly).

 

Hi, Scott.

Thanks. I follow the changes closely and am already running 5.3.27. As it has already reached deprecated state, I'm concerned. cPanel has a very poor track record of implementing fixes in that state. PHP 5.2.9 displays proudly in the WHM interface; meanwhile, that tree itself didn't EoL until 5.2.17. You guys failed to implement a lot of fixes that a lot of servers needed.

So, that explains my anxiety. Thanks to Zend taking more than a year after 5.4 released before it decided to update Zend Guard, we operators are now seriously behind the 8-ball. The longer cPanel/WHM takes to implement Zend in 5.4, the more vulnerable my servers become.

 

Interestingly, I see that 5.2.17 has finally found its way into WHM. Funny how that works. :p

At least that gives servers forever stuck with Zend Optimizer a reasonable -- if untimely -- upgrade path. Better late than never.

 

Thanks for this. Much appreciated.