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1. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 09-Oct-2026 10:07:46 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Updates!
   
   php: 8.6.0RC2 -> 8.6.0RC3
2. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 03-Oct-2026 16:49:06 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Finally dug out the redump.info (former .org - drama ensued) CD ripping machine for some maintenance and upgrading it from Kubuntu 24.04 to 26.04.
   
   ...It's an overbuilt machine running on two AMD Opteron Dual-Core CPUs, but the system memory capacity is pretty lacking (~4.75GB of RAM) because multiple 1GB ECC Registered DDR sticks were dying over time... otherwise it would be running on 6GB of ECC RAM.
   
   That system can theoretically run on 24GB of RAM, but that is 4GB per DDR stick, and... nah. Expensive, even back then, so 2GB per stick may be more reasonable.
3. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 02-Oct-2026 19:13:15 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Found the actual issue as to why random image loading would fail... this also affected some stuff that used a lot of Javascript.
   
   It was a misconfiguration regarding limiting IP connections on the server. It was from a modification some few months ago (probably back in the summer) when the top-level directory was meant to be limited... but it was too limited. This affected most of the website, lol.
4. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 01-Oct-2026 14:59:49 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Updates!
   
   Security
   httpd: 2.4.68 -> 2.4.69
   apr-util: 1.6.3 -> 1.6.5 (1.6.4 was security-patch)
5. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2026 22:41:39 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Updates!
   
   Security
   openssl: 3.5.8 -> 3.5.9
   
   New
   libicu/icu4c: 74.2, 78.3 - compiled using gcc/g++ 13 compiler
   
   Recompile
   php 5.6.40: due to system upgrade
   php 7.4.33: due to system upgrade, needed libicu 74.2 so PHP is not forced to use c++17 standards for compiling (with c++17 flag you can use later libicu versions)
   php 8.5.11, 8.6.0RC2: due to system upgrade, initial gcc/g++ 15 to final gcc/g++13 migration, and changing from system-built libicu-78.2 compiled with gcc/g++ 15 to source-built libicu-78.3 compiled with gcc/g++ 13
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2026 23:49:42 EDT Clarissa Walker

     in reply to
     ... yeah, that was chaotic. Back-end has four versions of the same cURL library version , and that is because it uses different openSSL major releases.
     
     From there, there are four PHP versions, each using those different versions.
     
     Apache httpd is still using openssl 1.1.1, however.
     
     All of this is manually configured... 🫣
6. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2026 14:04:14 EDT Clarissa Walker
   The system upgrade is done!
   
   Ubuntu: 24.04.5 LTS -> 26.04.1 LTS
7. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2026 11:54:37 EDT Clarissa Walker
   This machine is now running Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS, but the custom packages for PHP are not replaced.
   
   This means that restarting the system will break PHP for now.
   
   Apache should work without recompilation. All libraries for this setup still use gcc-13 and g++-13 (Ubuntu 26.04 primarily uses 15).
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   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2026 13:01:30 EDT Clarissa Walker

     in reply to
     PHP 8.5 is done, now waiting for PHP 8.6.
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2026 13:27:24 EDT Clarissa Walker

     in reply to
     I goofed on the prefix for PHP 8.6.0RC2, so gotta wait longer.
     
     Sending it now would overwrite PHP 8.5.11...
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2026 14:03:22 EDT Clarissa Walker

     in reply to
     Done!
8. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2026 01:08:55 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Upgraded the compile box to Xubuntu 26.04, and... could no longer compile PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.4 without community patches. (I actually almost killed the install by installing a coreutils shim meant for 26.04 on 24.04... never do this, lol.)
   
   Very little actually runs on PHP 5.6, but this microblog runs on PHP 7.4... and it breaks on PHP 8.x.
   
   My laptop runs Kubuntu 26.04, but it's pretty hacky. I patched PHP 5.6.40 and PHP 7.4.33 and they do compile on my laptop, and will try again on the compile box later.
   
   This server is still running Ubuntu Server 24.04 until it is ensured that earlier PHP can run. As a note, PHP 8.5 and PHP 8.6 can actually compile without issue.
9. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 24-Sep-2026 13:50:24 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Updates!
   
   php: 8.6.0RC1 -> 8.6.0RC2
   
   Security
   php: 8.5.10 -> 8.5.11
10. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 00:38:03 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Updates!
    
    php: 8.6.0beta3 -> 8.6.0RC1
    • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 24-Sep-2026 12:13:38 EDT Clarissa Walker

      in reply to
      Yeah, gotta compile RC2:
      
      https://scherzer.dev/Blog/20260923-no-php86-rc-1
11. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 13:05:46 EDT Clarissa Walker
    The limitipconn configuration had to be rewritten.
    
    This is what I get for not reading the readme much when I first set it up...
12. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 12:14:04 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Finally, I have obtained mod_limitipconn version 0.25!
    
    There was an IPv6 fix in that version, so Apache httpd will get the new version of this module.
13. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 19-Sep-2026 14:34:51 EDT Clarissa Walker
    This server's HTML files now render as UTF-8 by default through the server's character set setting if they are not specified in the HTML file itself.
14. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 19-Sep-2026 11:55:37 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Had to limit gitphp and gitlist to 2 connections per IP address.
    
    This solved the server resource eating issues for now. Will keep watching it periodically.
15. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 14-Sep-2026 22:22:31 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Updates!
    
    Recompile
    php 7.4.33, 8.5.10, 8.6.0beta3: due to missing sodium/libsodium support
16. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 20:43:40 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Some PHP-FPM server tweaks on all installed versions of PHP...
    
    Also, eFiction patching went pretty well so far. Only real issue is review ratings abuse - difficult to patch without breaking posting reviews...
17. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 10-Sep-2026 17:21:08 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Updates!
    
    php: 8.6.0beta2 -> 8.6.0beta3
18. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 00:41:16 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Obtaining a more recent copy of URL2 (Net_URL2) made things work better. Yet another test post.
19. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 00:39:19 EDT Clarissa Walker
    http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/notice/293
20. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 00:38:53 EDT Clarissa Walker
    https://efiction.org/community/efiction-software-news/efiction-4/