WordPress 4.5 "Coleman" now available from Bitnami!

We're happy to announce a new version of Bitnami Wordpress Stack:

WordPress is a popular blogging software and powers more than 10% of all websites globally. Developed by Automattic, WordPress rose to popularity quickly because of it’s up-to-date development framework, extensive feature set, multilingual publishing ability, multi-author support, and thriving community. Thousands of free and commercial themes and plugins are available to extend and personalize WordPress for just about anyone who needs a website.

A few of the major changes in this new version include:

• Finer points: Customizer improvement
• Finer points: Visual Editor improvement
• Finer points: Comment refinement
• Finer points: Optimization of image generation
• Developers: Selective refresh
• 
Developers: Backbone and underscore update

• Developers: Embed templates 
• Developers: Term edit page changes 


What's new?

• Posts: Inline link editing

• Posts: Additional editor shortcuts
• 
Comments: Moderate comment screen refresh

• Comments: Max length for comment form fields
• 
Comments: Comment error page navigation

• Appearance: Responsive preview of your site

• Appearance: Theme logo support
• 
Appearance: Selective refresh

• Appearance: Easy of use


Under the hood:

• Bug fix: Support Windows shares/DFS roots in wp_normalize_path()
• Bug fix: OPTIONS request to REST API does not return correct Accept header
• Smart Image resizing
• JavaScript library updates
• Script Loader improvements

You can learn more information about this release in the WordPress blog.

With Bitnami, you can deploy a ready-to-run Wordpress Stack with just one click. To get started, choose from our all-in-one free native installers (for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X), virtual machines and Cloud Images for Amazon EC2, Azure, CenturyLink, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud Platform, vCloud Air and 1&1 Cloud Platform.

Solr 6 now available from Bitnami!

We're happy to announce a new version of Bitnami Solr Stack:

Apache Solr is a fast search platform from the open source Apache Lucene project. Solr makes use of Lucene, a powerful search engine framework, and includes an http-wrapper around the robust framework so it is ready-to-use out of the box. Features include full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document handling, and geospatial search. Solr is used by some of the largest companies in the world to power search on their public projects.

A few of the major changes in this new version include:

• Improved defaults for "Similarity" used in Solr, in order to provide a better default experience for new users.
• Improved "Similarity" defaults for users upgrading: DefaultSimilarityFactory has been removed, the implicit default Similarity has been changed to SchemaSimilarityFactory, and SchemaSimilarityFactory has been modified to use BM25Similarity as the default for field types that do not explicitly declare a Similarity.
• Deprecated GET methods for the schema are now accessible through the bulk API. The output has less details and is not backward compatible.
• Users should set useDocValuesAsStored="false" to preserve sort order on multi-valued fields that have both stored="true" and docValues="true".
• Deprecated SolrServer and subclasses have been removed, use SolrClient instead.
• Filter support added to Real-time get.
• Column alias support added to the Parallel SQL Interface.
• New command added to switch between secure/non-secure mode in zookeeper.
• Now possible to use IP fragments in replica placement rules.

• And many more features that you can find on the Solr Website.

With Bitnami, you can deploy a ready-to-run Solr 6 Stack with just one click. To get started, choose from our all-in-one free native installers (for Linux, Windows and MacOSX), virtual machines and Cloud Images for Amazon EC2, Azure, Digital Ocean, vCloud, 1&1 and Google Cloud Platform.

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.

DreamFactory 2.0 Beta Now Available on Bitnami!

We have released Bitnami DreamFactory 2.0 beta so our users can have a first glance at the new functions it has to offer. We are providing an opportunity for our users to easily test it out in the cloud, natively, or as a virtual machine. DreamFactory would love Bitnami users’ feedback as they work on their final release.

DreamFactory has added many new features with the 2.0 beta release, and they are providing direct access to support engineers through their testing program. Be sure to sign up for their beta program here after launching the app. The list below shows just a few of the changes that have been made with DreamFactory 2.0.

Security

• Easy integration with Active Directory and LDAP.
• Easy integration with Facebook, Twitter, Google, and GitHub OAuths.
• More flexible role-based access controls. End users can now have different security permissions for different apps.
• More flexible authentication with JSON web tokens (JWT) and API keys. You can now set session timeout rules, authenticate users with usernames and passwords, make APIs public, or distribute API keys to specific developers.

API Customizability

• Implement and automatically document RESTful APIs from scratch with custom scripts.
• Customize API business logic with server-side scripting in either JavaScript or PHP, with additional languages to follow.
• Improved API configuration UI for building custom APIs.

Modularity & Scalability

• Fully modular architecture re-built using the Laravel PHP framework.
• Install only the packages you need.
• Use either NGINX or Apache web server (we like NGINX).
• Pick default SQL database of choice (no longer limited to MySQL).
• MongoDB is pre-installed and the REST API for Mongo is ready to go “out of the box”.
• Higher scalability and performance for large-scale transactional mobile and IoT applications.

With this beta, DreamFactory is looking for your support to give as much feedback as possible. Their support engineers will help you get started with DreamFactory 2.0 beta, and will help you upgrade if you already have a running version. 

Launch Bitnami DreamFactory 2.0 beta in just a few clicks as Installers (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X), Virtual Machine images (VMs), or cloud images!

If you are an existing DreamFactory user and would like to see how to upgrade to DreamFactory 2.0 beta, see our wiki page here for easy-to-follow instructions.

Wordpress 4.3.1 Security Release

The WordPress project has just released a new version due to a security release. WordPress version 4.3.1 fixes important security issues, as a cross-site scripting vulnerability when processing shortcode tags and another one in the user list table.

It also includes a patch for an issue that let users without proper permissions publish private posts and make them sticky.

The WordPress team strongly encourages their users to update their site to this version. For more details please check the official announcement. If you already have a running version of Bitnami WordPress, the application will be automatically updated. You can confirm that the update has been done by checking the version from your admin panel.

We have released Bitnami WordPress 4.3.1 (and Multisite version) installers, virtual machines and Amazon EC2, Google, VMware vCloud Air and Azure cloud images that fix these issues.

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

Security Notification: OpenSSL Alternative chains certificate forgery CVE-2015-1793

A new security vulnerability was recently discovered in certain versions of OpenSSL. You can find out more about the vulnerability here: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150709.txt

Any Bitnami-packaged applications using affected versions of OpenSSL that were installed or launched after June 11th, 2015 are vulnerable.

While this vulnerability is not as critical as previous ones like Heartbleed, we believe it is of the utmost importance to quickly address any security issues in applications distributed by Bitnami. To this end, our team worked to update all of the affected applications available through Bitnami and other cloud marketplaces that distribute Bitnami images within 32 hours of the report.

We also created a patch that can be applied to fix this vulnerability in applications that are already deployed. Please take a moment to update existing installations of Bitnami-packaged applications by following the instructions in our wiki:

https://wiki.bitnami.com/security/2015-07-09_Alternative_chains_certificate_forgery_CVE-2015-1793

For a list of affected applications, please see after the jump or click here.

If you have any questions about this process, please post to our community support forum and we will be happy to help!