What's happening in our world

We have updated encoders and loaders for FreeBSD. Also updated loaders for ARM. Please download from our loaders page. 

We have updated loaders for Raspberry etc (armhf) and ARMv8 (aarch64) up to version 11.3.1 with full support of PHP 7.3

We have updated loaders for ARM up to version 11.2 which includes full PHP 7.2 support. New loaders are available from our loaders page.

We updated loaders for these platforms up to the recent version 11.1.5. If you deploy your protected code to ARM, we recommend that you update the loaders. Note, new loaders require using of the recent version of SourceGuardian as usual. Make sure your support subscription is up to date and renew in the user profile if necessary.

 

You may find the recent loaders on the loaders page

We have added support for PHP7 and updated loaders for ARMhf (Raspberry Pi and other boards) and ARMel platforms. Please download new loaders from our web site or click here to use our online  loader assistant to know the loader you need for your system and how to install it. (The loader assistant assumes ARMhf if ARM platform is detected. If you need loaders for ARMel, please download from our website).  

 

 

If you are using version 10 of SourceGuardian, please update your loaders. The following issues were fixed in the version 10.1.3 of loaders:

 

- try/catch issues on PHP 5.0.x-5.2.x (there were no issues for newer versions of PHP). Fixed.

- customer session handler that extends standard SessionHandler class was causing the encoded php scripts to fail on exit (on session write & close). Fixed.

 

Loaders were updated for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux.

 

We also updated loaders for embedded Linux solutions running on ARM:

- Linux ARMel platform

- Linux ARMhf platform including Raspberry Pi, BeagleBoard, CubieBoard and more 

 

And finally we updated loaders for HP-UX IA64:

- HP-UX Itanium (IA64) 32-bit

- HP-UX Itanium (IA64) 64-bit

 

Support of SourceGuardian 10 and PHP 5.6 were added.

 

Please download updated loaders from our loaders page.

Facebook is arguably one of the most well-known websites in the world. With over a billion active user accounts (despite some disagreements over how many of those are fake accounts), Facebook is also one of the largest PHP deployments in the world - if not the absolute largest. A custom written virtual machine dubbed the 'Hip Hop Virtual Machine' translates Facebook's PHP code into 64-bit x86 instructions for various kinds of heavy-duty server-side computation.



While Facebook is remaining relatively quiet about the entire process, you can look at a far more technical explanation of their plans at their Hip Hop Virtual Machine blog here. If you're a highly-skilled PHP developer who is also very familiar with the ARM server architecture, you might even consider applying for the job!