Zend Server 4.0 Beta 2 Release Announcement What s new in Zend Server 4.0 Beta 2 Updates and Improvements Resolved Issues Installation Issues

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Zend Server 4.0 Beta 2 Release Announcement

Thank you for your participation in the Zend Server 4.0 beta program. Your involvement will help us ensure we best address your needs and deliver even higher quality products.

What’s new in Zend Server 4.0 Beta 2

This beta release of Zend Server introduces multiple bug fixes, improvements and enhancements, the most important ones are listed below:

Updates and Improvements

PHP version updated to 5.2.9 - the full list of changes can be found here:

http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_9.php

CURL libraries were updated to version 7.19.4 - the full list of changes can be found here:

http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html

Zend Framework version was updated to version 1.7.5

Performance improvements to the communication between the GUI and the Apache web server on Linux and Mac

Linux DEB/RPM: The '/ZendServer' directory used for communications between the GUI and the Apache web server was moved to a separate, port-based virtual host. This should resolve most conflicts with non-default Apache configurations.

Linux: A graceful Apache restart option was added to zendctl.sh Windows: the ext/intl extension was added to the common extensions Versions of the ibm_db2 and imagick extensions were updated

Resolved Issues

Installation Issues

Issue Number Description

23991 After the Zend Server upgrading process, the browser may display HTTP error 500 instead of the Zend Server login page.

GUI Issues

23821 When a restart PHP is required, a message appears. Clicking the Restart PHP button may not remove the Restart Required message, even though the PHP was restarted

24013 Zend Server trims the leading and trailing spaces in the password field 24096 The phpMyAdmin link from the GUI does not work in RPM packages

24181 GUI performance degradation when the server is unable to connect to updates.zend.com 24510 Running gui_passwd.sh might return an error.

Monitor Issues

24006 Monitor extension may crash when an internal SoapClient call returns an error. 22955 Database locking in high load may cause event data corruption

23814 Invalid mail settings may cause the monitor daemon to crash at startup Cache Issues

23835 Page Cache may cause a segmentation fault when under heavy stress (Linux only)

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Limitations

Upgrading to this version might cause some of the settings (for example GUI password) to be overwritten with default settings. This is due to some modifications to the different configuration management mechanisms, in order to enable better configuration management in the future.

IBM Informix connectivity through PDO_INFORMIX is only possible if the Informix CSDK client libraries are pre-installed on the server. Zend Server does not ship these libraries, and the user is expected to install them before enabling these extensions

At a glance

Zend Server is a complete, enterprise-ready Web application server for running and managing PHP applications that require a high level of reliability, performance and security.

Zend Server 4.0 comes in two editions; Zend Server 4.0 Community Edition (CE) and Zend Server 4.0, which is the commercial edition. Both Zend Server 4.0 and Zend Server CE are built on a common server foundation that delivers:

Full supported and certified distribution of PHP 5.2

Improved application performance using PHP code acceleration and data caching technology Integrated installers that are native to the OS (RPM/DEB/MSI)

Web-based Administration Interface Out-of-the-box database connectivity And more…

When to use Zend Server 4.0 CE

Zend Server CE 4.0 is ideal for developers who need a simple, integrated solution for experimenting with PHP or for building and running non-critical PHP applications.

When to use Zend Server 4.0

Zend Server 4.0 is suitable for companies that need high reliability, software updates, technical support,

monitoring and diagnostics, security and performance for running and managing business-critical PHP applications.

What’s in Zend Server 4.0

Improved Application Performance

Zend Server 4.0 provides multiple technologies for improving your application response times and minimizing resource utilization:

Code acceleration – PHP bytecode caching increases performance with no application changes Full page caching – A URL-based HTML output cache that does not require any application changes Data caching – A set of functions that allow developers to cache data in memory or on disk

Application Monitoring and Diagnostics

Zend Server monitors PHP application execution in production and alerts you to critical issues, such as: Slow PHP script execution

PHP errors

Errors in specific function calls Excess memory usage Errors in called Java code And more…

Improved Server Reliability

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Zend Server 4.0 Editions

Zend Server 4.0 CE Zend Server

Native installation

PHP

Zend Framework

Apache

MySQL

Built-in DB connectivity (Oracle,

DB2, MySQL, …)

Web-based administrator console

Debugger interface

Bytecode acceleration

Caching API

Java connector

Page caching

Application monitoring (alerting)

Application problem diagnostics

Software updates and hot fixes

Technical support

Download Zend Server 4.0 Beta 2

Zend Server 4.0

Windows http://downloads.zend.com/zendserver/4.0.0-beta2/ZendServer-4.0.0-beta2-Windows_x86.exe

Linux DEB http://repos.zend.com/deb/pe - See Installation Guide for instructions

Linux RPM http://repos.zend.com/rpm/pe - See Installation Guide for instructions Zend Server 4.0 CE

Windows http://downloads.zend.com/zendserver/4.0.0-beta2/ZendServer-CE-4.0.0-beta2-Windows_x86.exe

Linux DEB http://repos.zend.com/deb/ce - See Installation Guide for instructions

Linux RPM http://repos.zend.com/rpm/ce - See Installation Guide for instructions

Linux i386 http://downloads.zend.com/zendserver/4.0.0-beta2/ZendServer-CE-4.0.0-beta2-linux-glibc23-i386.tar.gz

Linux x86-64 http://downloads.zend.com/zendserver/4.0.0-beta2/ZendServer-CE-4.0.0-beta2-linux-glibc23-x86_64.tar.gz

Beta Program Notes

Zend Server 4.0 Beta should not be used in production environments.

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Zend Server 4.0 Beta package does not include a built-in license key. Time-limited license keys are available during the beta from http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/license

Note: this is a limited license key. If you wish to continue testing Zend Server after the license expiration please e-mail your contact person at Zend.

Documentation

Product documentation is available through the Zend Server Administration Interface. Additionally, the most up-to-date documentation is available on-line at http://files.zend.com/help/Zend-Server/zend-server.htm .

Please follow the instructions in the detailed installation guide.

Technical Support Information

The support for the Zend Server 4.0 beta is handled via the Zend forums at the following URL:

http://forums.zend.com

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems, Platforms and OS versions

Linux x86 and x86-64:

- RPM packages: RHEL 5 and up, CentOS 5 and up, Fedora Core 7 and up - DEB packages: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 and up, Ubuntu Linux 7.10 and up

- Generic Tarball Installer (Community Edition only): Other Linux distributions on i386 or x86_64 architectures with 2.6.x kernel versions and glibc 2.3 or newer

Windows x86 and x86-64: - Windows XP SP 2 and up

- Windows Vista (except for "Starter Edition") - Windows Server 2003

- Windows Server 2008

Mac OS X 1.4 and 10.5 on Intel x86 (Community Edition only)

Supported Web Servers

Apache 2.2 (bundled on Windows or shipped by the distribution on Linux). Microsoft IIS 5, 6, 7 (pre-installed on Windows operating systems).

Supported Browsers

MS Internet Explorer 7 and above Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above Apple Safari 3.0

Java Virtual Machine

When using the Java Bridge component, a Sun Microsystems or IBM 32-bit JRE version 5 or above is required.

Known Issues

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23803 Windows: when upgrading from Zend Server CE to Zend Server, both products appear in the Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs.

23922 Windows: Installation repair utility may stop without warning.

24000 Windows: the Zend Server installer is unable to install MySQL Server when MySQL Workbench is already installed.

Workaround_{: Either remove MySQL workbench prior to the Zend Server installation or install MySQL} Server manually.

24430 Windows: Installing on IIS with a large number of virtual hosts causes the installation to freeze for a long time when building the virtual hosts list

24407 Windows: Redundant file created at C:\Program after upgrade. This causes Windows to show a warning message popup

Workaround_{: it is safe to ignore the warning popup and delete this file} 24396 Windows: The Zend Controller icon is missing from the Start menu GUI Issues

22578 Zend Server GUI might crash when Zend Loader is unloaded while Zend Optimizer+ is running. 24460 On some systems Internet Explorer does not allow JavaScript when accessing the UI through

http://127.0.0.1/

Workaround_{: access the UI through}_{http://localhost/}_{or modify Internet Explorer trusted sites settings to} allow 127.0.0.1

24488 Boolean FALSE function arguments are not properly displayed in the Event Details Screen 24505 An empty path is not permitted when creating a new Page Cache rule

Workaround_{: Use a regular expression or manually edit the XML configuration file after saving the new} caching rule

Monitor Issues

23710 The Monitor Events filtering by 'Occurred after' does not work.

24475 Monitor extension might crash on sites that have a very large number (30,000+) of possible PHP URLs Workaround_{: increase the shared memory allocation of Zend Monitor by changing the values of the} zend_monitor.shm_size and zend_monitor.max_shm_segment_size directives

General Issues

23740 Zend Server does not support SSL communication with Zend Studio when trying to debug an event. 24418 Page Cache: In cases where a rule matches tens of thousands of different URLs, excess directories created

under the cache directory might cause slowdowns

Thank you for beta testing Zend Server 4.0!