Odoo 9 now available in Bitnami!

We're happy to announce a new version of Bitnami Odoo Stack.

Odoo is an enterprise resource platform from which you can manage all of your business operations – from supply chain and project management, to accounting and HR.

Some of the major changes in this new version are:

• Customer Portal for eCommerce
• New WYSIWYG Editor for website builder
• Recurring Contracts for contract management
• Recurring invoices for Subscrition Management
• New Interface, clean, faster, full Mobile
• Dashboards for Accounting
• VOIP Integration, with plan calls, Dial Queue
• Point of sale, with Restaurant, Customer Management
• Odoo Slides, with Docs, Slides and Videos private or Public

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

Odoo 9 Apps

With Bitnami, you can deploy a ready-to-run Odoo 9 Stack with just one click. It can be deployed using all-in-one free native installers (for Linux, Windows and MacOSX), virtual machines and Cloud Images for Amazon EC2, Azure, Digital Ocean, vCloud, Oracle and Google Cloud Platform.

Do you have any questions about Bitnami Odoo 9? Post to our community forum, and we'd be happy to help you.

Bitnami releases Open edX Cypress

We are happy to announce the release of Open edX's most recent version, Cypress. There are many exciting features in this release, and we look forward to hearing what you think in our review section!

The updates below are all included in your ready-to-run Bitnami Open edX image, so you can get started with them right away.

• OLI Hinting 
• Creative Commons Polling and Survey XBlocks 
• Learner Profiles 
• Course Search 
• Randomized Content Blocks 
• Single Sign On (SSO) 
• Performance improvements Security and stability fixes 
• And more 

For more information about the new features, visit the Open edX blog. 

We have released Open edX Cypress on installers, virtual machines and cloud images, so you can easily try this new release or update your existing Open edX. 

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

Dive into PHP 7 on Bitnami today

PHP 7 is here! There's been lots of buzz around it over the past few weeks, with the latest beta being released just days ago. We've been tracking PHP 7 development with excitement as well, with the huge speed improvements and language features that will make building and scaling PHP apps much better than before.

To help the PHP Group and development team get more people trying out this new version, we're adding PHP 7 versions of our popular LAMP and MAMP stacks. You can download them below:

For those of you haven't tried our developer stacks for PHP before, they are ready to go, full featured stacks, with everything you'd need to get going to start with PHP development. This is a great way to try your PHP app on PHP 7 without having to spin up a new machine or environment; just cloud launch the Bitnami stack and pull in your code over Git and you can be up and going in minutes with seeing how your app runs on this upcoming major version of PHP.

We'd love to hear how you like PHP 7 and what improvements or problems you've seen so far. Sound off in the comments below or connect to us on Twitter with your feedback.