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We have recently shipped a graphical tool to simply the servers management in AMP & APP Stacks for Linux, OS X and Windows. The BitNami Manager Tool is a simple graphical interface that can start and stop the BitNami servers that are located in the same installation directory. To start the utility, double click the file named ‘manager-windows’,‘manager-linux’ or ‘manager-osx’ from your file browser.

The use of the tool is pretty easy. There are buttons to start, stop and restart each … more

We have recently upgraded all of our PHP stacks to support native Linux 64bit installations (without the need to install compatibility libraries). We have just done the same for our popular Ruby on Rails stack, RubyStack
This Stack ships the following components:

• Ruby 1.8.7-p334
• Rails 2.3.11
• Apache 2.2.17
• MySQL 5.1.56
• NGinx 1.0.2
• Passenger 3.0.7
• PHP 5.3.6 (optional)
• and other dependencies

We have just released LAMP Stacks (Apache, MySQL and PHP) and LAPP Stacks (Apache, PostgreSQL and PHP) for Linux 64 bits. You can download and install these Stacks for any Linux 64 bits distribution. These Stacks are self-contained and independent of your system, very useful for PHP developers. Currently you can deploy all BitNami Linux Stacks in a 64 bits Linux system but it was necessary to install the compatibility libraries. From now on, you can take advantage of your 64 bits system and improve the performance of your web applications. We have also released BitNami PHP modules … more

We are happy to announce a new release of BitNami RubyStack. This version includes significant improvements:

• Updated Ruby to the latest stable version 1.8.7-p334. If you want to use Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 you can download the 2.1-1-dev version of RubyStack.
• Updated Rails to 2.3.11.
• Updated Nginx to 1.0.2
• Phusion Passenger 3.0.7 with Apache and Nginx modules for Linux
• Updated Git to 1.7.4
• Updated PHP 5.3.6 for BitNami modules which requires PHP
• Updated phpMyAdmin to 3.3.10
• Updated gems to latest stable versions

We’re pleased to announce that we have added support for Fedora to BitNami Cloud Hosting. This means you can now choose to run your favorite open source applications in the cloud on either Ubuntu 10.04 or Fedora Linux 14 (32 and 64 bit versions of each are available). BitNami Cloud Hosting users will now see the Fedora options available in the ‘Advanced’ section of the ‘Create a New Server’ screen, as shown in the screenshot below. If you aren’t yet using BitNami Cloud Hosting, sign … more

We’re happy to announce that all of the BitNami PHP-based development stacks have been updated to include PHP 5.3 support. This include both the MySQL-based and PostgreSQL-based stacks. In addition to an updated PHP version, we include the latest release of phpMyAdmin, PEAR components and related libraries, including the much requested mcrypt extension. Because the Stacks are available as native installers, virtual machine images and AMIs, you can develop on a local machine natively or in a virtual environment and then deploy the application to Amazon EC2 for testing and production. This is the list of components and versions included … more

We are happy to announce a new release of BitNami JRubyStack. The most important improvement is that the updated stack includes the latest stable version of JRuby, 1.5.6 which is the java implementation of Ruby 1.8.7. It also includes recent versions of Tomcat, Subversion and SQLite together with updated gems. You can view the full list of changes in the changelog. Enjoy developing with JRuby in your machine, in a virtual appliance or in the cloud. Just go to http://bitnami.org/stack/jrubystack and use your preferred environment. … more

After several months in private beta, we’re excited to announce that BitNami Cloud Hosting is now available! BitNami Cloud Hosting simplifies the process of deploying and managing open source and other applications in the cloud.

• One-click Application Deployment: Launch servers with one or more applications or development stacks from the BitNami library in one click. Currently available applications include: SugarCRM, Alfresco, JasperServer, Drupal, Wordpress and many others. You can view a list at: http://bitnami.org/cloud/apps
• Automatic Backups and One Click Server Restores: BitNami Cloud Hosting offers automated backups that can … more

We are excited to announce two new Stacks for Java developers: BitNami Stack for JBoss and BitNami Stack for Apache Tomcat.
These Stacks include everything you need to run any Java application on top of Apache Tomcat or JBoss. They are available as native installers, for running on locally on your machine, as virtual machine images, for running in a virtual environment, and as AMIs, for running on the Amazon Cloud. As with all BitNami Stacks, these new Java Stacks are free of charge and ready-to-run. The installers are completely self-contained and run independently of the rest … more

We’re pleased to announce that the BitNami AMP and APP Stacks have just been updated to include the Amazon Web Services (AWS) PHP SDK as well as updated versions of Apache and PostgreSQL (where appropriate). As the Amazon website explains it, "The AWS SDK for PHP makes it easier for developers to build applications that tap into the cost-effective, scalable, and reliable AWS cloud. Using the SDK, developers can build solutions for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, and more. " By including the Amazon PHP SDK in our Apache + … more

We’re happy to announce that all of the BitNami *APP Stacks and *AMP Stacks have been updated to newer releases of the bundled software. In all of the Stacks, PHP was updated to version 5.2.14 and OpenSSL was updated to version 0.9.8 (note that OpenSSL is not bundled in the WAMPStack or WAPPStack.) In the MySQL-based Stacks, MySQL has been updated to version 5.1.50. In the PostgreSQL-based Stacks, PostgreSQL has been updated to version 8.4.4. If you are not familiar with our *AMP and *APP Stacks, they are completely self-contained, ready to run development environments that include Apache, PHP, MySQL … more

Now that the beta release of Ruby on Rails 3 is available, we wanted to make it easy for you to check out all of the improvements that have been made. We just released a new version of BitNami RubyStack that allows you to install a complete, ready-to-run Rails 3 environment in just a few clicks. If you choose to install the stack natively, you will be asked if you want to install the Rails 3 gems or not. If you opt out, you will have a stable release of Rails installed and completely configured.
As with all … more

Ctdh, a BitNami community member, has generously provided us with a great tutorial on how to make persistent data in Amazon Machine Images :

We are glad to announce a new version of RubyStack that includes improved performance and deployment options with Ruby Enterprise and Phusion Passenger You can download it now at the RubyStack section … more