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Two minor updates of PHP 4 and MySQL 5. Both updates are security updates, which shouldn’t affect any of you.
MySQL 5 has been upgraded from 5.0.18 to 5.0.24a.
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PHP 4 has been upgraded from 4.4.2 to 4.4.4.
Read changelog…
You can keep track of the current versions of PHP, MySQL and Ruby on Rails at http://php.dreamhosters.com and [...]

A quick overview of this month’s newsletter :

Multiple Databases per Hostname!
One of the most popular suggestions is coming through: You can now have multiple databases per hostname, use the same MySQL username to access multiple databases and have one phpMyAdmin management area for all the databases on your account.
See Sneaky Changes Afoot.. for more info.
New! [...]

From this month’s newsletter :

Restore Your Own DB!
Great new feature: Restore your own MySQL databases from backups, directly from the Control Panel. You can now revert your database to how it looked 1 – 7 days ago (24 hours increments), 1 – 6 weeks ago (½ week increments) or 1 – 6 months ago (1 [...]

DreamHost today announced support for MySQL 5.0. All new MySQL databases being created will be version 5, and they will soon offer the possibility to upgrade current databases from version 4 to version 5.
For the ones who haven’t followed MySQL progress the latest years, I will recap the development roadmap here.
MySQL 4.0
Released: 25 March, 2003
Supported [...]

This month’s newsletter fresh from the press:

One-Click Installs Upgrader!
The one-click installer of WordPress, phpBB, Joomla, etc. now also do one-click upgrades.
See also The Big 2-oh!.
Subversion!
New! DreamHost now officially have support for Subversion.
MySQL 5!
Covered in MySQL upgraded to 5.0.
Jabber Talks with Google!
Covered in Jabber and Google Talk.
wiki.dreamhost.com!
Covered in DreamHost Knowledge Base and Mirror of DreamHost’s Knowledge [...]