We’re happy to announce that all of the BitNami PHP-based development stacks have been updated to include PHP 5.3 support. This include both the MySQL-based and PostgreSQL-based stacks. In addition to an updated PHP version, we include the latest release of phpMyAdmin, PEAR components and related libraries, including the much requested mcrypt extension. Because the Stacks are available as native installers, virtual machine images and AMIs, you can develop on a local machine natively or in a virtual environment and then deploy the application to Amazon EC2 for testing and production. This is the list of components and versions included… more

The PGDay 2009 is a chance for European users and developers of PostgreSQL to catch up, learn, build relationships, get to know each other and consolidate a real network of professionals that use this outstanding product for the daily management of relational and object databases. The event will take place November 6, 7 in Paris, so start planning for it. Checkout the PGDay website for more details… more

One of the most requested features in BitNami forums is the ability to support both MySQL and PostgreSQL in the same Stack. We are glad to announce that we have released a PostgreSQL module which you can install over LAMPStack, MAMPStack, WAMPStack or RubyStack. This module ships and configures the PostgreSQL database and the phpPgAdmin application to manage this database through the web with ease. You can find the new add-on in the same download page of LAMPStack, MAMPStack, WAMPStack or RubyStack. Once you have downloaded it, you can select the installation folder where you have installed your previous LAMPStack,… more