CMS Made Simple more simple than ever!

We are happy to announce that CMS Made Simple is now part of the Bitnami Library!

CMS Made Simple provides a fast and easy way to create a web site and manage its contents. It can be used by everyone from large corporate IT departments to home users.

Thanks to the community votes, CMS Made Simple is even easier to start working with it. To get started with it, you can download free, ready-to-run installers for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, virtual machine images (VMs) and cloud images for the Amazon EC2 and Azure clouds.

CMS Made Simple installer

If you just want to check out CMS Made Simple, you can instantly launch a free 1-hour cloud demo server with the Bitnami Cloud Launchpad by clicking the button below. The default password is "bitnami".

In case you are not familiar with the project, some of the main features of CMS Made Simple are the following:

• SEO Friendly URLs
• Modular and extensible. There is a large catalog of Themes and Modules that allows you build your own site faster
• Easy user and group management
• A large and active community

CMS Made Simple Admin console

 
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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.

WordPress 3.8 now available on Bitnami

WordPress 3.8, nicknamed "Parker" (after Charlie Parker), with its beautiful new design, is now available from Bitnami. If you are already using a Bitnami WordPress image, you can simply upgrade your version from the admin panel.

Not familiar with Bitnami WordPress? In short, it is the easiest way to install your own wordpress instance. We've packaged Wordpress up as a self-contained, incredibly fast distribution that makes it simple to deploy. To get started with Bitnami WordPress, you can download free, ready-to-run installers for Linux,Windows and Mac OS X or our virtual machine images (VMs). Or, if you want to have a hosted Wordpress, you can deploy Bitnami Wordpress into the cloud via the Amazon and Azure clouds.

Sounds too good to be true, right? Give it a try. You can also launch a free cloud demo server and in minutes have a fully configured Wordpress 3.8 instance up and running.

Some of the most important features of WordPress 3.8 include:

- It brings a fresh new look to the entire admin dashboard. Gone are overbearing gradients and dozens of shades of grey. It uses the Open Sans typeface that provides a simple and friendly text.

New WordPress 3.8 Dashboard

- New vector-based icons that scale to your screen. By ditching pixels, pages load significantly faster, too.
- It ships eight new admin color schemes.
- New theme management
- New Twenty Fourteen theme, a sleek new magazine theme.

Twenty Fourteen theme

Get started with new WordPress easily with Bitnami Wordpress stacks.