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Latest PECL Releases:gRPC 1.14.0- gRPC C Core 1.14 uptake protobuf 3.6.1GA release. xdebug 2.6.1Wed, Aug 1, 2018 - xdebug 2.6.1 = Fixed bugs: Fixed issue #1525: Namespace filter does equality match instead of prefix match Fixed issue #1532: SIGABRT when using remote debugging and an error is thrown in eval() (Philip Hofstetter) Fixed issue #1543: Various memory leaks due to changes in (internal) string handling Fixed issue #1556: Crash when register_shutdown_function() is called with a function named call_user_func* Fixed issue #1557: Remove 'return' in void xdebug_build_fname Fixed issue #1568: Can't debug object properties that have numeric keys Improvements: Fixed issue #1487: Re-enable IPv6 test on Travis mongodb 1.5.2** Bug * [PHPC-1110] - advanceOperationTime test failure * [PHPC-1239] - Passing empty driversOptions array to Manager constructor overrides SSL options in URI * [PHPC-1241] - OpenSSL 1.1 not found if pkg-config is not available * [PHPC-1243] - Calling session methods after Session::endSession() causes use-after-free crash ** Task * [PHPC-1184] - Add alternative topologies to Travis CI * [PHPC-1205] - Allow unencoded subdelimiters in usernames and passwords * [PHPC-1227] - Document that transactions do not allow per-op read/write concerns * [PHPC-1244] - Use majority WC to drop/create collections for transaction tests * [PHPC-1246] - Document class tree for exception classes * [PHPC-1248] - Add test to ensure that URI constant is successfully parsed * [PHPC-1249] - Fix tests running against MongoDB 3.0 replicaset * [PHPC-1251] - Upgrade libmongoc to 1.12.0 redis 4.1.1phpredis 4.1.1 This release contains only bugfixes and documentation improvements Fix arginfo for Redis::set method [0c5e7f4d] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko) Fix compression in RedisCluster [a53e1a34] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko) Fix TravisCI builds [9bf32d30] (@jrchamp) Highlight php codes in documentation [c3b023b0] (@ackintosh) gRPC 1.14.0RC2- gRPC C Core 1.14 uptake ahocorasick 0.0.1Initial release

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Over the past few years, technologies like cloud computing and microservices emerged to meet the increasing demands of scalability, resilience, and availability. Microservices architecture has been an emerging trend in software architecture over the past few years and holds many promises – faster time to market, better scalability and loosely coupled components. However, this conglomeration […] The post Security Challenges and Solutions for Microservices Architecture appeared first on Developer.com.

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