Submitted by arjones85 on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 11:31
Just curious if there are any plans to upgrade the MySQL and PHP supported versions?
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Submitted by andreychek on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 11:40 Comment #1
Howdy -- Virtualmin attempts to use software versions in your distribution where possible. That includes PHP and MySQL.
However, some web apps require newer PHP versions than CentOS has available to it. And for that reason, the "Bleed" repository was created, and has a newer version of PHP than comes with CentOS.
Unfortunately, it is a revision behind at the moment, at 5.2.11.
It's on Joe's todo list to upgrade that to 5.2.12, and I'll pass this task along to him for further comment :-)
Info on the bleed repo is here:
http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/id,virtualmin_bleeding_edge_pack...
Submitted by arjones85 on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 11:49 Comment #2
Hello,
Yeah, I have the bleed repo enabled. The main thing I am interested in is upgrading to MySQL 5.1. Any plans to put that in bleed?
Submitted by andreychek on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 11:55 Comment #3
Well, I kind of doubt MySQL 5.1 is going to end up in there... are you seeing applications that require it?
MySQL actually provides RPM's for the software it releases though... so if you're eager to use a more recent version, you can actually download 5.1 RPM's from their site:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
Submitted by arjones85 on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 23:19 Comment #4
No applications requiring it that I have seen (for me anyway), and I have gone over the 5.1 changes and new features and there's really nothing there that stuck out as a must-have. Just thought it would be nice to keep up with the latest stable versions =)
Nothing I specifically need though. I just wasn't quite sure if Virtualmin would support a higher version of MySQL correctly.
Submitted by andreychek on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 23:44 Comment #5
Well, that's the cost of stability; sometimes the version numbers aren't flying by quite as fast :-)
Distros such as Fedora keep on top of the newest packages, but it's also considered a poor server distro for that very reason. Things change a bit too fast, the software in use isn't as tested, and it's also not supported for very long.
Virtualmin tries to let the distro vendor handle packaging applications -- and in general only begins to provide them if it solves a major problem to do so. For example, we've begun to notice that a lot of web apps are requiring PHP 5.2. Since folks rely on these applications, we're in a position where we feel we need to make newer PHP versions available.
That's unfortunately not the case with MySQL :-)
I would, however, expect MySQL 5.1 to work just fine with Webmin and Virtualmin; and if you discover otherwise, please feel free to file a bug report!