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.

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.

Redis Security Release

Today, Redis released Redis 3.0.4, which patches several critical security issues. Redis suggests that all users upgrade to this new version.

Due to these security issues, we have released Bitnami Redis 3.0.4 in Google Cloud Platform and a Bitnami Redis container that fixes these issues. 

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