Node.js 5.1.1 and 4.2.3 Security Release

The nodejs project has just released a new version due to a security issue. Node.js version 5.1.1 & 4.2.3 fixes an important bug, CVE-2015-8027, a Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability. The Node.js team strongly encourages their users to update to this version. For more details please check the official announcement.

We have released Bitnami Node.js 5.1.1 and 4.2.3 installers, virtual machines and Amazon EC2, Google, VMware vCloud Air, Azure and Oracle cloud images that fix these issues. We also released the popular MEAN stack and other Node.js based applications: Cloud9, Ghost, Let's Chat and Sharelock.

Have questions about Bitnami Node.js or the security issue? Post to our community forum, and we would be happy to help you.

Node.js 4.1.2 Security Release

The nodejs project has just issued a new version due to a security release. Node.js version 4.1.2 fixes an important security issue, a denial of service (DoS) bug.

The Node.js team strongly encourages their users to update to this version. For more details please check the official announcement.

We have released Bitnami Node.js 4.1.2 installers, virtual machines and Amazon EC2, Google, VMware vCloud Air and Azure cloud images that fix these issues.

Have questions about Bitnami Node.js or the security issue? Post to our community forum, and we would be happy to help you.

New Node.js version 4.0.0 available on Bitnami!

The Node.js foundation has released version 4.0.0 (stable) that fixes important issues, improves its functionality and upgrades some of its included dependencies. 

It is a big upgrade from the last stable version (0.12.7) that released on July. You may be wondering why jump from 0.x to 4.x, that is because of io.js last version is 3.x and to avoid collision with Node.js it was decided to merge on 4.

• Node.js and io.js are united.
• NPM: Upgrade to version 2.14.2 from 2.13.3, that includes a security update.
• v8: Upgrade to version 4.5.103.30 from 4.4.63.30. 
• Node-gyp: This release bundles an updated version of node-gyp that works with all versions of Node.js and io.js including nightly and release candidate builds. From io.js v3 and Node.js v4 onward, it will only download a headers tarball when building addons rather than the entire source. 

You can find more information about this release on Node.js webpage.

We have released Bitnami Node.js version 4.0.0 on installers, virtual machines and cloud images.

Have questions about Bitnami Node.js or anything related? Post to our community forum, and we will be happy to help you.

Bitnami Container Images for Docker - Now in Beta

We’re very happy to announce availability of the first set of Bitnami container images focused on the needs of application developers. We’ve been using containers internally for close to a year and have found them useful, both for local and cloud-based development and testing.

Bitnami container images can help you:

• Reduce the time it takes to setup a developer on a new project
• Reduce friction when sharing environments - experience less “but it worked on my machine?” 
• Mix and match languages for specific projects - with consistency, regardless of the components you select

As with any rapidly evolving technology, we’ve run into a few bumps along the way, but believe that containers offer an interesting way to collaborate on your next software project and that they are complementary to our existing installers, virtual machines, and cloud images.

We’re starting small and initially focused on the needs of Web developers. Today we’re announcing beta Bitnami container images for nginx, php-fpm, mariadb, memcached, node, redis, apache, and ruby.

Our container images have been built around some key ideas we wanted, but found lacking, in other publicly available container images. Bitnami containers for Docker:

• Share a common base OS (initially Ubuntu 14.04) to minimize time-to-get-started
• Are kept up-to-date with consistent version tagging
• Are easy to combine into a multi-tier application because they are consistently documented and take a standardized approach to configuration, bootstrapping, and logging
• Separate data from code to enable upgrading of individual components
• Include run-time notification of new versions

Bitnami container images are available now on the Docker Hub Registry and on GitHub. A walk-through of  how to use these container images to package a real-world application is also available.

We’re very interested in feedback from you on how these container images could be improved. Please open issues with ideas for enhancements or use cases on GitHub. We welcome contributions to the code, so please open a pull request if you have code to share.

Click here to get Bitnami container images for Docker.