PHP5 upgraded to 5.1.2
PHP5 has been updated from 5.0.4 to 5.1.2 according to php.dreamhosters.com.
The upgrade to 5.1.0 is a major update and includes:
- A complete rewrite of date handling code, with improved timezone support
- Significant performance improvements compared to PHP 5.0.X
- PDO extension is now enabled by default
- Over 30 new functions in various extensions and built-in functionality
- Bundled libraries, PCRE and SQLite upgraded to latest versions
- Over 400 various bug fixes
- PEAR upgraded to version 1.4.5
- A number of important security fixes
The update to 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 consists mainly of a fair number of bug fixes and addresses three security issues.

March 17th, 2006 at 02:26
That’s kewl, i’m an actual reader of your blog (you just sum the dreamhost news a little better that dreamhost ppl), but i always check through the feed, but having the “feedburner” saying 0, i guess it’s because your not pointing to your feedburner feed, so it’s kind of lame having 2 “feed icons” pointing to the same thing and one saying you have 0 users (that’s also incorrect you have at least one) so take it down or change all feed pointers to your feedburner (including the important header feed link) heheehh, have a nice one ^_^ and thanks for the news
March 17th, 2006 at 03:37
fiend - Thanks for the thumbs up! My feeds are forwarded to FeedBurner with a redirect and should be working correctly. FeedBurner is just having a small issue with the counter, but I guess it will be fixed by tomorrow. The real number of feed subscribers is currently around 75.
March 17th, 2006 at 07:30
This blog is wonderful. Since DreamHost doesn’t have a blog or page indicating what software they even have or what version, this is my sole source for this information (beside the e-mails they send).
Maybe they will now get around to upgrading Ruby on Rails to 1.1
March 17th, 2006 at 13:30
Nick - Ruby on Rails 1.1 is not even out yet?! DreamHost is running the newest release 1.0.
March 18th, 2006 at 21:48
What happened to /usr/local/php5/lib/php/XML folder?
March 20th, 2006 at 00:32
Will - Sorry, I have no idea… Try to direct your question to DreamHost Support…