We have recently upgraded all of our PHP stacks to support native Linux 64bit installations (without the need to install compatibility libraries). We have just done the same for our popular Ruby on Rails stack, RubyStack
This Stack ships the following components:

• Ruby 1.8.7-p334
• Rails 2.3.11
• Apache 2.2.17
• MySQL 5.1.56
• NGinx 1.0.2
• Passenger 3.0.7
• PHP 5.3.6 (optional)
• and other dependencies

We are happy to announce a new release of BitNami RubyStack. This version includes significant improvements:

• Updated Ruby to the latest stable version 1.8.7-p334. If you want to use Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 you can download the 2.1-1-dev version of RubyStack.
• Updated Rails to 2.3.11.
• Updated Nginx to 1.0.2
• Phusion Passenger 3.0.7 with Apache and Nginx modules for Linux
• Updated Git to 1.7.4
• Updated PHP 5.3.6 for BitNami modules which requires PHP
• Updated phpMyAdmin to 3.3.10
• Updated gems to latest stable versions

Yesterday, JRuby 1.6.0 was officially released and today you can deploy in minutes with BitNami. A major new feature in JRuby 1.6 is the implementation of theRuby 1.9.2 language. However by default JRuby is configured to work on Ruby 1.8.7 mode. Here is how you can use the Ruby 1.9.2 mode in your BitNami JRubyStack installation.

1. Open the BitNami JRubyStack console.

./jrubyconsole

We are happy to announce a new release of BitNami JRubyStack. The most important improvement is that the updated stack includes the latest stable version of JRuby, 1.5.6 which is the java implementation of Ruby 1.8.7. It also includes recent versions of Tomcat, Subversion and SQLite together with updated gems. You can view the full list of changes in the changelog. Enjoy developing with JRuby in your machine, in a virtual appliance or in the cloud. Just go to http://bitnami.org/stack/jrubystack and use your preferred environment…. more

We would like to send a special thanks to BitNami user Christian Riley for putting together a great demo of how to launch phpBB to EC2 using a BitNami CloudFormation template. As you’ll see in the demo video, he is able to launch phpBB to EC2 in just a few minutes using CloudFormation. In addition to phpBB, all other PHP and Ruby on Rails-based BitNami-packaged applications are now available as CloudFormation templates. Enjoy!… more

Amazon has recently released AWS CloudFormation , a new service that helps you describe a ‘stack’ of cloud resources and bring them up as a single unit. A CloudFormation stack can include among other resources load balancers, databases, EBS volumes and of course EC2 instances. A stack definition is called a template and can contain configuration information to be passed to the various resources being provisioned. At BitNami, we are pretty excited about CloudFormation and want to make it easy for you to incorporate BitNami stacks to your deployments. We have now CloudFormation templates for all PHP and Ruby on… more

After several months in private beta, we’re excited to announce that BitNami Cloud Hosting is now available! BitNami Cloud Hosting simplifies the process of deploying and managing open source and other applications in the cloud.

• 1-Click Application Deployment: Launch servers with one or more applications or development stacks from the BitNami library in one click. Currently available applications include: SugarCRM, Alfresco, JasperServer, Drupal, Wordpress and many others. You can view a list at: http://bitnami.org/cloud/apps
• Automatic Backups and One Click Server Restores: BitNami Cloud Hosting offers automated backups that can… more

We’re happy to announce the release of updated BitNami Stacks for SugarCRM, Drupal, Redmine and Alfresco. As with all BitNami Stacks, these new releases are freely available as native installers, for installation on desktops or servers, virtual appliances, which can be run in VMWare and Virtualbox, and as cloud images for Amazon EC2 (AMIs) and GoGrid (GSIs). If you’re not familiar with these applications, here is a quick summary:

• SugarCRM: SugarCRM is a flexible customer relationship management solution for companies of all sizes. SugarCRM can easily be customized and integrated with… more

A couple of weeks ago, we released an updated Redmine Stack for Redmine 1.0. If you’re not familiar with Redmine, it is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. It includes support for multiple projects, role based access control, issue tracking, a Gantt chart, calendar, wikis, forums, time tracking and more. The 1.0 release of Redmine is a major milestone and we’d like to congratulate and thank everyone in the Redmine project who worked on it. It includes a long list of improvements, such as:

• Subtasks:… more

What if your own in-house applications were as easy to deploy as BitNami stacks? We’re excited to announce that we are now looking for beta users of BitNami Studio, our new offering that enables you to create customized, ready-to-run virtual machine or cloud images for your own internal applications or open source applications in minutes. The goal of BitNami Studio is to make it easy for you to build, clone, edit, and test your own application stacks. It is extremely flexible and allows you to customize each layer of the stack – the application, the runtime, the operating system… more