16th July 2014

eZ announces the availability of 5.3.2, a maintenance release available for all users of eZ Publish Platform 5.3 containing a notable few updates and fixes, as well as a security update in Symfony.

A newer release is available, rendering update instructions here obsolete and non working. Please see 5.3.x Update Instructions for always uptodate instructions for 5.3 releases.

Additional Symfony 2.3.19 security update came on September 3rd with a small break in how yml files are parsed, ezpublish-kernel package was updated to v5.3.2.1 on September 4th to fix the issue. On September 26th ezpublish-kernel v5.3.2.2 came out to address some Composer issues with Zeta Components, further fixes is expected in v5.3.3.

Updating from a previous version of eZ Publish Platform 5.3

These instructions take advantage of the new composer powered update systems in 5.3 for maintenance updates, as for Upgrading from versions prior to 5.3 look at our Upgrading from 5.1 to 5.3 or Upgrading from 5.2 to 5.3 page.

Before you start, make sure you have Composer installed and familiarize yourself with the Using Composer page, also if upgrading from 5.3.0 and using Nginx make sure to upgrade your configuration as described in 5.3.1 Release Notes.


Updating Composer Packages selectively:

With this command you'll only update packages from eZ (and symfony) that have received updates since 5.3.0:

php -d memory_limit=-1 composer.phar update --no-dev --prefer-dist ezsystems/ezpublish-kernel ezsystems/ezpublish-legacy ezsystems/demobundle ezsystems/comments-bundle symfony/symfony

Note: Add "ezsystems/ezfind-ls", and "ezsystems/ezcontentstaging-ls" to the parameters to get latest version if you also use these extensions.

Package updates in this release

Here are the packages that have received an update as part of this release + security update in Symfony:

packageversionprior version
ezsystems/ezpublish-kernel
5.3.2.25.3.1
ezsystems/ezpublish-legacy
5.3.25.3.1
ezsystems/ezfind-ls
5.3.25.3.1
ezsystems/demobundle
5.3.25.3.0
ezsystems/ezcontentstaging-ls
5.3.25.3.0
ezsystems/comments-bundle5.3.25.3.0
symfony/symfony>=2.3.182.3.13

Notable known issues in this release:

Some issues have been identified in this release which should be mentioned specifically:

 

Updates and fixes in this release