Integrated Online Solutions

2006.03.31 Impending hardware and FreeBSD upgrade

In the next few weeks we will be moving a new server into place which will take over as our main web server (and possibly mail). The new server will be running FreeBSD 6.1. Binary compatibility with the current FreeBSD 4.x system will be enabled, but users are encouraged to recompile their software after the upgrade. The new server will have upgraded versions of many other key pieces of software. Noteably, for the web server, we will be moving from Apache 1.3 to Apache 2.2. PHP will go from 4.3 to 4.4 (unless we have time to do more testing with PHP 5), Perl will be at 5.8.8. Python, however, will continue for a while with our default of version 2.3 (version 2.4 is available, but not the default), as there are some known compatibility problems for our clients. There is no exact schedule for these events yet. There will be a short downtime required.