The Pecl imagick extension for PHP 5.4/5.5/5.6 has been rebuilt in order to fix a non backwards-compatible API change in ImageMagick-devel changed in the RHEL/CentOS 6.7 minor release.
This update means this extension will only now be able to be installed if RHEL/CentOS 6.7 packages are available on existing 6.x systems.
The following packages are in testing, and available for download in the testing repositories:
Assuming you have the Webtatic repositories set up (see Yum Repository), you can update using:
yum update <package> --enablerepo=webtatic-testing
The following packages are in testing, and available for download in the testing repositories:
Assuming you have the Webtatic repositories set up (see Yum Repository), you can update using:
yum update <package> --enablerepo=webtatic-testing
Here are updated packages in the Yum repository:
As mentioned previously in Webtatic EL5 and EL6 going HTTPS on 18th July, Webtatic EL5 and EL6 will now, for new webtatic-release RPM installations and upgrades, use HTTPS protocol to download packages.
This was possible since October last year when EL7 was released with HTTPS support by default, however wasn't applied due to potential issues with old minor releases of RHEL/CentOS. Since then, Webtatic has taken the decision to focus on the latest minor releases (5.11, 6.6, 7.1) in securing traffic.
As the previous article mentioned, this is on top of the GPG signature validation that already happens by default for all packages, which ensure packages can't be tampered.
If you're having problems with this switch, it's recommended to upgrade your RHEL/CentOS minor version:
Once done, ensure your openssl package is the latest version.
The following packages are in testing, and available for download in the testing repositories:
Assuming you have the Webtatic repositories set up (see Yum Repository), you can update using:
yum update <package> --enablerepo=webtatic-testing
Webtatic likes to ensure all packages are installed securely, it uses gpg signature verification to ensure there is no tampering of the packages. Last October, Webtatic EL7 was released with HTTPS being the default method of install.
Though Webtatic EL5 and EL6 have supported HTTPS since then, it hasn't been the default method of install, instead being HTTP. This was due to my concerns that it might have issues on old installs of RHEL/CentOS that didn't have base package security updates to support the TLS ciphers used.
Recently I've decided to ensure all packages are installed by default over https, as the latest RHEL/CentOS 5.11 and 6.6 support this method. Any release before that will instead have to manually change the *.repo mirrorlist configuration to http if their openssl packages don't support it, though I'd strongly recommend updating to the latest minor release of RHEL/CentOS instead.
This switch will happen on 18th July. Before then, you can install the latest webtatic-release package in the testing repository to see this now via:
yum update webtatic*-release --enablerepo=webtatic-testing
A first release of PHP 7.0.0alpha1 for RHEL/CentOS 6.6 and 7.1 is now available. It is in the webtatic-testing repositories due to being alpha stability. It should not be used for production use.
To find out more information about the package, visit PHP 7.0.0alpha1 for RHEL/CentOS 6.6 and 7.1.