PHP 7.1 and Samba 4.8 updates

Quick flurry of updates as Samba 4.6 finally went out of support earlier this month so no more patches, so quick deinstall of Samba46 and then install of Samba48 to get Samba back into support.

Update to PHP 7.1 was a bit more involved.  Needed to update make.conf to amend the default_versions from 5.6 to 7.1 and then locate the port directories for mod_php56 and de-install.   Quick build of mod_php71 to update that and then pkg delete php56 to remove all the extensions.

I have Kanboard and phpsysinfo installed, so a quick trip to their port directories to re-installed pulled in most of the PHP extensions needed, but oddly not php71-extensions, so on Apachectl Restart WordPress spewed up some Server 500 Errors.  A quick check of the previous php extensions now installed versus the previous 56 variants thru up a few ports that had not been pulled back in.   A quick re-build of those ports and another apachectl restart and all is well and Apache is now running PHP 7.1 happily.

 

Alexa Show Mode

After treating myself to a Kindle Fire 10 as a stop gap until I could justify the price of an iPad Pro was looking forward to trying out the Show Mode that was heavily written about in the Tech Media at the time

Suffice to say the firmware for the UK version has not come out yet and still no sign of the Amazon Docking Station to make this a permanent fixture.  The Fire 8 HD requires the latest 8th Gen iteration to enable

Not  sure if my bad research at the time in July or if Amazon his the fact it wasn’t  coming to the UK versions of Fire 10.

Will be watching out for the latest developments on the Amazon support website