Bitnami News: Nginx, OpenERP 8, Discourse... Application Awesomeness!

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August 2014 Nginx is here! New PHP development environment option in Bitnami We are excited to announce the Bitnami Nginx Stack, the latest addition to our Infrastructure stacks. The infrastructure stacks provide complete, fully-integrated and ready to run development environments for the most popular runtimes, frameworks and servers, from PHP with Apache to Node.js with MongoDB, among others. The Bitnami Nginx Stack provides a development environment for PHP with Nginx and MySQL, along with other supporting components. Get your LEMP environment (WEMP if you are using Windows and MEMP on Mac OS X) in just a few clicks with Bitnami and learn how to deploy a PHP application on top of it. Read more » Check Out What's Coming in OpenERP 8 (Odoo) The new features and modules that OpenERP 8 includes are creating quite a bit of excitement leading up to the upcoming release. In order to make it clear that OpenERP has grown beyond its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tool, the application is being released with a new name, Odoo. In order to give Bitnami users a sneak-preview of the v8 release, we have released a stack with the latest development release. Install the website builder or the gamification module through the web interface and start checking out this early version. Recent configuration improvements to all of our Python-based packages will also give you important performance improvements on Unix. Read more » Discourse 1.0 is Out! As Discourse users ourselves, we're happy to announce that Discourse 1.0 is now available from Bitnami! With this release, Discourse has smoothed out all of the rough edges, and is now ready and safe for production use. We have been using it to run the Bitnami Community discussion site for close to a year now and have been incredibly happy with it, even pre-1.0 release, so we highly recommend that you check out v1.0. Read more » Meet Magento Conference Bitnami is excited to be sponsoring Meet Magento New York, an international conference about Magento and eCommerce that will be held on September 22th and 23th in Digital Sandbox, Manhattan. The event is for entrepreneurs, developers and service providing agencies in and around Magento industry and is ideal for all who want to know about the hot topics and latest trends about Magento and Ecommerce, find potential customers and partners, do business and network in a nice and fun atmosphere. Come and meet Magento community! Read more » Updated Ubuntu Bitnami Cloud Hosting Servers We have released a new version of our Ubuntu Bitnami Cloud Hosting servers, rev 31. This new version includes upgraded components like Ruby which has been upgraded to 2.0.0-p481 and the ability to run the most recent version of the Bitnami-packaged Ruby applications on top of it. Other components like the Apache HTTP server, MySQL, PHP, MongoDB and Node.js has been also upgraded. Read more » Which application should we add to the Bintami library? According to our users and thanks to the project's efforts to promote it, Pimcore, a content management platform, is currently leading the contest for which app we will add to the Bitnami library next. The SilverStripe CMS and framework is not too far behind and there are still a few days left for this contest iteration, though. Vote to help decide which app will be packaged next! Vote » Detectify We have partnered with Detectify, which offers a security-scanner that analyzes the security status of your website and creates a report with the results. It is designed to be easy to use even for those with little or no previous knowledge of web security without limiting the test coverage. It only takes 3 minutes to sign up and start a security audit of your web application. Plugins are also available for WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal. Read more » Updates WordPress 3.9.2 *Security Fix* Both WordPress and Drupal projects have released new versions which include, among others, a security fix for a possible denial of service issue in PHP's XML processing. More details in the WordPress official announcement. Read more » Drupal 7.31, 6.33 *Security Fix* This is the first time that both WordPress and Drupal projects have coordinated joint security releases. More details about this and other fixes in the Drupal official announcement. Read more » Django 1.4.14, 1.5.9, 1.6.6 *Security Fix* These new versions fix multiple vulnerabilities. All our Django-based applications have been updated as well. We have also improved our configuration on Unix systems to provide a better performance. Read more » Trac 1.1.1-dev Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. We have updated the Bitnami Track Stack to use the latest development release for the 1.1.x line. We have also improved our configuration to provide a better performance on Unix system. Read more » PHP 5.4.32, 5.5.16 All our PHP-based Infrastructure stacks now include PHP 5.4.32. Run your LAMP, WAMP, MAMP or LAPP, WAPP, MAPP development environment with the latest PHP with MySQL or PostgreSQL respectively on Linux, Windows or Mac OS X. Read more » View all recent updates » This newsletter was sent by the muy simpatica people at BitRock Inc., makers of Bitnami. We're at 650 Mission Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. Want to be removed from the newsletter? No problem, unsubscribe and we won't bug you again.