PHP 5.6 Upgrade – 11 September

As per our previous announcement, we have upgraded PHP on all servers to version 5.6 today.

For the most part, the upgrade went smoothly. We did encounter two issues though:

  • IonCube decryption was broken initially, but that was an easy fix.
  • Server WWW-28 tripped over its monitoring system, got rebooted and required a very lengthy filesystem check that took the server offline.

All service are back to normal and fully upgraded!