Bitnami CMS Made Simple Stack

Bitnami CMS Made Simple Stack is a free and multiplatform software project that has been especially designed to simplify the deployment of the CMS Made Simple content management system, as well as of its runtime dependencies, on desktop computers and laptops.

What is CMS Made Simple?

CMS Made Simple is a free, open source, fast and web-based application designed from the ground up to act as a powerful CMS (Content Management System) software that allows users to easily manage the contents of their current websites.

Installing Bitnami CMS Made Simple Stack

Bitnami provides native installers for the CMS Made Simple application, which work on the GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware architectures.

To install CMS Made Simple on your personal computer, you will have to download the package that corresponds to your computer’s hardware architecture, run it and follow the instructions displayed on the screen.

Run CMS Made Simple in the cloud

Thanks to Bitnami, users will be able to run the CMS Made Simple application in the cloud with their own hosting platform or by using the pre-built cloud images for the Windows Azure and Amazon cloud hosting platforms.

Virtualize CMS Made Simple on VirtualBox or VMware

In addition to running CMS Made Simple in the cloud or installing it on your personal computer, you can also run it on top of a VMware ESX, ESXi and Oracle VirtualBox virtualization software. The virtual appliance is based on the latest LTS (Long Term Support) release of the Ubuntu Linux operating system.

The Bitnami CMS Made Simple Module and Docker container

Besides the Bitnami CMS Made Simple Stack product reviewed here, users can also download an all-in-one installer that greatly simplifies the installation of CMS Made Simple on Bitnami’s LAMP, WAMP and MAMP stacks. A CMS Made Simple Docker container will also be available for download on the project’s homepage.

What is new in this release:

• Updated Apache to 2.4.28
• Updated MySQL to 5.7.19
• Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2l
• Updated PHP to 7.0.24
• Updated phpMyAdmin to 4.7.4

What is new in version 2.1.6-1:

• Fixed issues in OS X

What is new in version 2.1.5-1:

• Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2j (Security fix CVE-2016-6304)
• Updated MySQL to 5.6.33
• Updated PHP to 5.6.26
• Updated phpMyAdmin to 4.6.4

What is new in version 2.1.4-2:

• Updated PHP to 5.6.24 (Security release: HTTP_PROXY is improperly trusted by some PHP libraries and applications)
• Blocked Proxy request header in the web server (Security issue CVE-2016-5385, CVE-2016-5387, CVE-2016-1000110)
• Updated Apache to 2.4.23
• Updated phpMyAdmin to 4.6.3

What is new in version 1.12-1:

• Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.1p
• Updated PHP to 5.5.26
• Updated MySQL to 5.6.25
• Updated PHP to 5.5.25
• Updated phpMyAdmin to 4.4.7
• Dropping RC4 from Apache SSLCipherSuite directive
• Updated phpMyAdmin to 4.4.3
• Updated PHP to 5.4.40

What is new in version 1.12-0:

• Updated CMS Made Simple to 1.12
• Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.1m
• Updated PHP to 5.4.39

What is new in version 1.11.12-0:

• Updated CMS Made Simple to 1.11.12
• Updated phpMyAdmin to 4.3.3
• Updated PHP to 5.4.36
• Updated PHP to 5.4.35
• Updated phpMyAdmin to 4.2.12

What is new in version 1.11.11-0:

• Updated Apache to 2.4.10
• Updated PHP to 5.4.31
• Updated MySQL to 5.5.38
• Updated XDebug to 2.2.5
• Updated XCache to 3.1.0
• Updated mongo-php-driver to 1.5.4
• Updated php-couchbase to 1.1.5
• Updated Libxslt to 1.1.28
• Updated Libxml2 to 2.9.1
• Updated PHP to 5.4.30
• Updated phpMyAdmin to 4.2.5
• Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.1h
• Updated PHP to 5.4.29

What is new in version 1.11.9-0:

• Initial release, bundles Apache 2.4.7, PHP 5.4.23, MySQL 5.5.32, phpMyAdmin 4.1.0 and CMS Made Simple 1.11.9