Php 7.2 is now available on Bitnami

PHP, one of the most popular programming languages, has just released a new major version. And now, we are thrilled to announce that PHP 7.2 is available in the Bitnami catalogue!

We have released WAMP, LAMP, LAPP, MAMP, MAPP installers, virtual machines, and AWS cloud images to support the new version of PHP in all platforms.


As a developer, some changes that might interest you are:

• Convert numeric keys in object/array casts
• Counting of non-countable objects
• Object typehint
• HashContext as Object
• Argon2 in password hash
• Improve TLS constants to sane values
• Mcrypt extension removed
• New sodium extension

Visit the PHP 7 change-log web page for more information about this release.

If you are interested in deploying PHP 7.2 in the AWS cloud, you can do it following this link:

Launch PHP 7.2 stack now

New Development PHP Platform Stacks released with 5.6.0beta4

Development of PHP 5.6 keeps moving forward and this week a new beta version has been released. This version is just a bugfix release, and is intended to be the last release in the beta phase. You can find more information about the changes for PHP 5.6.0beta4 here.

We just released new versions of the PHP development installers, virtual machines and Amazon EC2 and Azure cloud images that ship the new PHP version.

Bitnami PHP development stacks ship Apache, MySQL, PHP in addition to other libraries and dependencies. You can click in the images to download the files.

In addition to that, we have also upgraded our PostgreSQL-based development environments: LAPP for Linux, MAPP for OS X and WAPP for Windows.

Try now if your application is ready for PHP 5.6! Check out Bitnami AMP/APP stacks and post your feedback in our community forums.

New AMP/APP stacks with latest PHP versions released

We are happy to announce that all of the Bitnami PHP-based development stacks have been updated to use the latest PHP versions:

• PHP 5.4.28
• PHP 5.5.12
• PHP 5.6.0beta2 

These versions fixed several issues, including a security issue CVE-2014-0185.

Because the Stacks are available as native installers, virtual machine images and cloud images, you can develop on a local machine natively or in a virtual environment and then deploy the application to Windows Azure or Amazon EC2 for testing and production.

The name of the Stack depends on the platform. It is called LAMP for Linux, MAMP for OS X and WAMP for Windows.

In addition to Apache, MySQL or PostgreSQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin or phpPgAdmin, Bitnami AMP stacks are extensible and you can add applications on top of them. That way, all of the BitNami-packaged applications you want to run will share a single instance of Apache, MySQL and PHP, which will save space and improve performance. You can check the available modules for Bitnami WAMP, MAMP or LAMP.

Try now Bitnami PHP development stacks locally or in the Cloud and share your review with the Bitnami community. We are also open to new improvements and suggestions at http://community.bitnami.com

PHP 5.6alpha3 and MySQL 5.6 now available in Bitnami

PHP 5.6.0alpha3 was been released at the end of the last week and we are happy to announce that the Bitnami Library includes now support for this PHP version in our stacks: WAMP for Windows, MAMP for OS X and LAMP for Linux. There are also virtual machines available for download and cloud images to deploy them on Bitnami Cloud Hosting, Azure and Amazon EC2 directly.


The stacks allow you to setup instant PHP development and testing environments locally in your desktop or in the cloud. They include everything you need to start working on web applications and development frameworks. PHP 5.6 is still under testing, so there can be features that can be changed before the final 5.6.0 release.

WAMP stack installer

WAPP, MAPP and LAPP stacks are also available in case you prefer to use PostgreSQL database.

These new development stacks ship the following main components:
- PHP 5.6.0alpha3
- Apache 2.4.7
- MySQL 5.6.16 (PostgreSQL 9.3.2)
- phpMyAdmin 4.1.9

About PHP 5.6.0alpha3, the most important new features compared with the PHP 5.5 version are:

• phpdbg: PHP now includes an interactive debugger called phpdbg implemented as a SAPI module.

• Large file uploads: Files larger than 2 gigabytes in size are now accepted.

• gost-crypto hash algorithm: The gost-crypto hash algorithm has been added.

• SSL/TLS improvements: The OpenSSL extension has been extended to include support for extracting and verifying certificate fingerprints.

• Support for the Windows CA cert store for peer verification when no CA file is available

• OPCache module enabled by default

About MySQL 5.6, the most important features are:

• Performance: the optimizer has been improved, using Multi-Range Read and File Sort Optimization, as well as InnoDB (the default storage engine) to enhance performance of the MySQL database

• Scalability: as the database grows, tables can be partitioned to manage data more optimally, while keeping the convenience of a SQL interface for the full table. There are some new features that help with this.

• Replication: replication is a good feature for data integrity, availability and performance, and there are a lot of new improvements in this MySQL version which help to achieve this goal, such as replication checksums to ensure the integrity of the data being replicated to a slave.

PHP 5.6.0alpha3 info

Try it now if your application is ready to make the jump to light speed for PHP 5.6 and MySQL 5.6!

New PHP Platform Stacks released with 5.5.7, 5.4.23 and 5.3.28

A PHP security vulnerability with OpenSSL was recently published. An attacker could use a malformed certificate to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

If you are using Bitnami PHP Stack, it is recommended that you upgrade PHP to the new patched versions: 5.5.7, 5.4.23 or 5.3.28. We just released new versions of the PHP development installers, virtual machines and Amazon EC2 and Azure cloud images that ship the new PHP version.

Bitnami PHP development stacks ships Apache, MySQL, PHP in addition to other libraries and dependencies. You can click in the images to download the files.

There are also available for download PHP development versions with PostgreSQL database instead of MySQL.

PHP 5.5 stacks now available in BitNami

Yesterday the latest major version of PHP was released. We are happy to announce we now include support in our stacks for PHP 5.5.0: WAMP for Windows, MAMP for OS X and LAMP for Linux. There are also virtual machines available for download and cloud images to deploy them on Azure and Amazon EC2 directly.

The stacks allow you to setup instant PHP development and testing environments locally in your desktop/laptop or in the Cloud. They include everything you need to start working on web applications and development frameworks.


These new development stacks ship the following main components:

- PHP 5.5.0

- Apache 2.4.4

- MySQL 5.5.30

- phpMyAdmin 4.0.3

BitNami WAMP stack

This version of PHP ships the new Zend Optimizer+ extension, an opcache cachemodule designed to increase the performance. This previous post covered how to enable and configure this module.

In addition to that, we have also upgraded our PostgreSQL-based development environments: LAPP for Linux, MAPP for OS X and WAPP for Windows are available as native installers, virtual machine images and Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure cloud images.

Try now if your application is ready for PHP 5.5!

PHP 5.5.0 info

PHP 5.5 now available in BitNami

We are happy to announce a new version of BitNami PHP-based development stacks that includes PHP 5.5.0.RC1.  BitNami Stacks are self-contained environments that include everything you need to run your favorite web apps and development frameworks.

You can download a LAMP stack for Linux, a MAMP stack for OS X and a WAMP stack for Windows to develop PHP-based applications on your desktop, using your favorite operating system. There are also virtual machines available for download and cloud images to deploy them on Azure and Amazon EC2 directly.

These new development stacks ship the following main components:

- PHP 5.5.0.RC1
- Apache 2.4.4
- MySQL 5.5.30
- phpMyAdmin 4.0.1

One of the new modules in PHP 5.5 is Zend Optimizer+, an opcode cache module. It is a component that is designed to increase the performance of PHP without altering the behavior of applications by storing precompiled script bytecode in shared memory.

It is similar to the APC module that it is already included in all BitNami AMP/APP stacks. There are some benchmarks that report Optimizer+ is faster than APC.

To enable this module it is necessary to add the following in the php.ini configuration file:

zend_extension=no-debug-non-zts-20121212/opcache.so
[opcache]
; Determines if Zend OPCache is enabled                                                                                                                                              
opcache.enable=1

Once you enable it, you can check the opcode cache settings and memory usage in the browser using the opcache-status script that you can download from https://github.com/rlerdorf/opcache-status

opcache-status page for PHP 5.5

We have also upgraded our PostgreSQL-based PHP development environments: LAPP, MAPP and WAPP stacks are available as native installers, virtual machine images and cloud images.

Try now if your application is ready for PHP 5.5!

New BitNami Development Stacks with PHP 5.4.14 released

We are happy to announce that all of the BitNami PHP-based development stacks have been updated to include PHP 5.4.14, Apache 2.4.4, MySQL 5.5.30 and PostgreSQL 9.2.4 support. BitNami stacks provide pre-configured, ready to run bundles for your favorite server applications and development environments.

You can download LAMP stack for Linux, MAMP stack for OS X and WAMP stack for Windows to develop PHP-based applications on your Desktop, using your favorite Operating System. There are also Ubuntu-based virtual machines available for download and cloud images to deploy on Azure or Amazon EC2 directly.

We also upgraded the PostgreSQL based stacks to the the latest stable version, PostgreSQL 9.2.4, that fixes a security vulnerability. You can download LAPP, MAPP and WAPP stacks as native installers, virtual machine images and cloud images for Azure and Amazon EC2.


If you develop with both databases MySQL and PostgreSQL, you can also install the PostgreSQL module on top of your current LAMP, WAMP or MAMP stack.

LAMP stack manager tool running on Linux

LAMP virtual machine

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About BitNami AMP Stacks

If you are already a BitNami user, you know that BitNami AMP / APP Stacks allow you to automatically set up an Apache, MySQL (or PostgreSQL) and PHP environment in minutes. While we strive to make all BitNami Stacks as intuitive to use as possible, we realize that good documentation is also important. We have just put the finishing touches on a new user guide for the BitNami AMP Stacks that summarizes everything you might want to know about the Stacks, including how to login to the components, how to stop and start the servers, how to install BitNami Modules on top of the Stacks and more. It also outlines the components included - did you know that BitNami AMP Stacks include the Zend Framework, Symphony, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Smarty and a range of other components? Check out the new documentation for all of this information and more.

Updated PHP 5.4 and Apache 2.4 BitNami Stacks

We are happy to announce that we have updated our BitNami PHP platforms Stacks (LAMP, MAMP, WAMP, LAPP, MAPP and WAPP) to include the recently released PHP 5.4 and Apache 2.4.1. You can download the stacks as native installers for Linux, OS X or Windows, and as virtual machines. You will also find ready to deploy Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

Among the new features in Apache 2.4, you will find major improvements related to performance and memory consumption, as well as Dynamic Reverse Proxy configuration, improved Authentication/Authorization, FastCGI Proxy and a Small Object Caching API. This release puts Apache on par with alternative web servers like nginx for many common scenarios.

Some of the key new features of PHP 5.4 include: traits, a shortened array syntax, a built-in webserver for testing purposes, significant improvements in performance and memory footprint.

In addition to PHP and Apache, the following major components were updated:

phpMyAdmin 3.4.10.1
AWS SDK for PHP 1.5.1
Symfony 2.0.11

Because PHP 5.4 is still very new and not all apps support them, these PHP platform stacks do not support BitNami application modules at this point in time. The stacks are intended for quickly testing and experimenting with these new versions, so please do not run them in production unless you know exactly what you are getting into! If you have any questions or suggestions, we will be glad to help you in our Q&A forum.

Updated BitNami PHP stacks

We are happy to announce new releases for our PHP platform Stacks: WAMP, LAMP, MAMP, WAPP, LAPP and MAPP Stacks. The stacks allow you to setup instant PHP development and testing environments locally in your desktop/laptop or in the Cloud.

This release includes the following updated components:

• PHP 5.3.8
• Apache 2.2.19
• phpMyAdmin 3.3.4
• AWS SDK for PHP 1.4.1

Enjoy!