Bitnami DevPack

Bitnami DevPack is a free, pre-configured, platform-independent and ready-to-run bundle of the most popular open source web-based applications, libraries and tools, designed to be deployed in the cloud. It is Bitnami’s most important stack that allows you get a sophisticated web application development environment in minutes, with minimum effort and without having to pay for expensive products.

What’s included?

The DevPack product from Bitnami come pre-loaded with numerous web technologies that help users to create feature-rich web apps, including the Apache and nginx web servers, Git and Subversion version control systems, Java programming language and runtime environment, PHP server-side scripting language, MySQL database server, Node.JS JavaScript framework, phpMyAdmin administrative front-end for MySQL, and PostgreSQL database server/

In addition, the Apache Tomcat servlet container, Ruby on Rails programming language, Python programming language, CakePHP rapid development PHP framework, Laravel PHP framework, MongoDB database server, RockMongo administrative front-end for MongoDB, Zend Framework PHP object-oriented web application framework, as well as the libyaml, nodeunit, OpenSSL and Tomcat Native libraries.

Includes even more goodies

In addition to the above, the Bitnami DevPack product include even more goodies, such as a wide range of tools for the Amazon Web Services (AWS), including aws-cli, aws-cloudformation, aws-ec2-api, aws-rds-cli, aws-sdk-java and aws-sdk-ruby, the Phusion Passenger web and app server, Symfony high performance PHP framework, Varnish HTTP accelerator, Bower Web package manager, Express Node.js web application framework, Jade programming language, Mongoose web server, and AWS SDK for JavaScript (awk-sdk-js) tool.

Supports Windows Azure and Amazon EC2

Bitnami DevPack is crafted in such a way that it allows anyone to run their own web application development environment server in the cloud, through the Windows Azure or Amazon EC2 web cloud hosting services. The cloud images are based on the latest LTS (Long Term Support) release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. You should also check out the Bitnami WebPack product, which includes some of the most popular web content management systems (CMS).

What is new in this release:

• Updated Apache to 2.4.9
• Updated awk-sdk-js 1.12.0
• Updated aws-cli to 1.2.4
• Updated aws-cloudformation to 2013-11-08
• Updated aws-ec2-api 1.6.11.0
• Updated aws-rds-cli 1.15.001
• Updated aws-sdk-java 1.6.5
• Updated aws-sdk-ruby 1.25.0
• Updated CakePHP to 2.4.6
• Updated Git to 1.9.0
• Updated Java to 1.7.0_51
• Updated Laravel to 4.1.0
• Updated libyaml to 0.1.5
• Updated MySQL to 5.5.36
• Updated nginx to 1.4.7
• Updated Node.JS to 0.10.26
• Updated nodeunit to 0.8.6
• Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.1g
• Updated Passenger to 4.0.40
• Updated phpMyAdmin to 4.1.12
• Updated PHP to 5.4.26
• Updated PostgreSQL to 9.3.3
• Updated Python to 2.7.6
• Updated Rails to 3.2.17
• Updated Ruby to 1.9.3-p545
• Updated Subversion to 1.8.8
• Updated Symfony to 2.4.2
• Updated Tomcat Native library to 1.1.29
• Updated Tomcat to 7.0.52
• Updated Varnish to 3.0.5
• Updated ZendFramework to 2.2.6
• Added Bower 1.2.8
• Added Express 3.5.0
• Added git-completion.bash
• Added Jade 1.3.0
• Added MongoDB 2.4.9
• Added Mongoose 3.8.8
• Added mongo-php-driver 1.4.5
• Added Node.JS forever tool
• Added PHP-FPM support for AMIs and VMs
• Added RockMongo 1.1.5
• Improved Apache configuration for PHP-FPM mode
• Increased MySQL max_allowed_packet to 16M

What is new in version 2013.01.08-0:

• Updated rails and its dependencies to 3.2.10
• Updated JDK to 1.7_10
• Updated Tomcat to 7.0.34
• Updated Django to 1.3.5
• Fixed restarting Apache with Passenger issue in micro instances