[steeler7]

Originally Posted by Osbes

Hello steeler7,

the versioning in the repo is a little bit messed up, since the tags shown by bitbucket (latest 2.0.33 / 2.0.34RC1) dont correspond to the .hgtags (latest 2.0.35) and it also didnt correspond to the NEWS (latest 2.0.36).

To bring some order in this mess, its best to look at the official site for this. Since this site is currently down, please us the waybackmachine for this:
http://web.archive.org/web/201012240....org/Main_Page

As you can see, the latest official release is 2.0.36 RC1 and the latest stable release is 2.0.35.

Since 2.0.36 RC1 is now nearly 4 years old and fixes some security issues, it is mostly addressed as 2.0.36 and - as example - used by the stable release of debian (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libgd2-noxpm) and was even used two years before by the oldstable release (http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libgd2-noxpm).

If you use gd2 embeded in php and want to know which is the minimum required php-version which had this patch embeded, we need to look a little bit closer.

This was the patch for the support of png "gray+alpha": https://bitbucket.org/pierrejoye/gd-...g-src/gd_png.c
Now we need to look into the php repo to make sure since which php version this patch was included.

You will find, that this patch is included in the embeded version since PHP 5.3.0 (https://svn.php.net/repository/php/p...libgd/gd_png.c).

For comparison PHP 5.2.17 (latest version before 5.3.0) in which this patch wasn't included: https://svn.php.net/repository/php/p...libgd/gd_png.c


If it isn't possible to update the gdlib, you can always switch your images from "gray+alpha" with an version using "color RGBA". But i mostly recommend the update of the gdlib, since 3.0.36(RC1) also fixes some serious security issues.

I hope this helps you

Best regards
Sebastian

Here's my hosts response after providing to them your explanation :

As you know you have cPanel on the server and we use all libraries from the official repositories. And the latest version of GD library in the official repositories is 2.0.33-9.4, which is currently installed on your VPS. Any custom install may cause problems to Apache + PHP, so this can be done at your own risk and we can't guarantee that everything will be working properly after the upgrade.

I';m to novice to install stuff like this myself , but I figured posting this for you and others just in case anyone else happens to run into this issue