In this release we’re upgrading php-common from 1:35ubuntu6 to 2:69+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+2+php7.3. We’re preparing to add out of the box support for Akeneo, but for that we require php-apcu. The version we’re shooting for depends on [php-common (>= 2:69~)], so that’s why we’re upgrading this.
We’ve recently had a lot of requests from people to run Akeneo next to their Magento (or on a separate node), and with some help from our support department this currently can be arranged without much issues. But because Hypernode is a fully automated platform we of course want to provide an out of the box experience where things just work.
We’re not installing php-apcu everywhere as that might have some bad effects on Magento performance. As Colin Mollenhour mentions here in a comment on a PR for Cm_Cache_Backend_Redis:
Well simply having APCu installed nearly doubles my page load time [..]
So that might be a good argument for putting Akeneo on a separate Hypernode than your Magento installation because Akeneo depends on php-apcu. We will probably add some kind of neat opt-in mechanism (probably using the hypernode-api) some time soon in order to enable php-acpu.
You can verify if your node has already been upgraded to the new version of php-common by running dpkg -l | grep php-common as the app user:
$ dpkg -l | grep php-common
ii php-common 1:35ubuntu6 all Common files for PHP packages
If your Hypernode has already been upgraded the output will look like this:
$ dpkg -l | grep php-common
ii php-common 2:69+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+2+php7.3 all Common files for PHP packages
These are the differences between what was installed before and what will be installed after the update.
Before:
root@3nlj40-phvr-magweb-cmbl ~ # dpkg -L php-common
/.
/etc
/etc/cron.d
/etc/cron.d/php
/var
/var/lib
/var/lib/php
/var/lib/php/modules
/var/lib/php/sessions
/usr
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/phpquery
/usr/sbin/phpenmod
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/php
/usr/lib/php/sessionclean
/usr/lib/php/php-maintscript-helper
/usr/lib/php/php-helper
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/php-common
/usr/share/doc/php-common/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/php-common/copyright
/usr/sbin/phpdismod
After:
root@3nlj3n-testfarzad-magweb-cmbl ~ # dpkg -L php-common
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/php-common
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/php-common
/usr/share/doc/php-common/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/php-common/copyright
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/phpenmod
/usr/sbin/phpquery
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/php
/usr/lib/php/sessionclean
/usr/lib/php/php-maintscript-helper
/usr/lib/php/php-helper
/var
/var/lib
/var/lib/php
/var/lib/php/modules
/var/lib/php/sessions
/etc
/etc/cron.d
/etc/cron.d/php
/lib
/lib/systemd
/lib/systemd/system
/lib/systemd/system/phpsessionclean.service
/lib/systemd/system/phpsessionclean.timer
/usr/sbin/phpdismod
Note that we will be disabling the systemd timer for phpsessionclean and that we will continue to use the cron session cleanup currently present in /etc/cron.d/php5-hypernode.
Changes will be deployed over the course of the next seven days.