Apache Friends News http://www.apachefriends.org/en News about XAMPP and Apache Friends Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:43:43 +0100 en BitNami and Apache Friends join forces!
Dear XAMPP users,

At BitNami, we have been great admirers of XAMPP and what it has accomplished: making it easier for programmers everywhere to quickly setup and run their own local web development environments. We had a similar goal of making web apps easier to install anywhere, whether in your laptop or in the cloud. When Kay and Kai suggested a few months ago the possibility of joining forces with them to take over maintenance of XAMPP, it was an easy decision for us. Over the next weeks and months we will be working to continue to improve XAMPP. A big chunk of our expertise is in crossplatform installation and apps. Among other things we plan to:

- Improve the existing installers
- Improve the bundled Control Panel
- Make it easy to install and develop with Drupal, Joomla!, WordPress, etc. on XAMPP
- Improve 64bit support, PostgreSQL, additional languages (i.e. Python)
- Improved Linux and OS X support
- Improve the website look and feel

As a first step, we have made BitNami for XAMPP, a one-click installer that will allow you to install Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress on top of your existing XAMPP installation.

http://bitnami.org/xampp

As newcomers, we are looking to the XAMPP community to help us with the transition by providing us with feedback and ideas on how to continue to improve XAMPP. Please use the XAMPP forums or feel free to email me directly at daniel@bitnami.org with any suggestions or comments.

Daniel Lopez, BitNami co-founder
]]>http://www.apachefriends.org/en/news-article,203924.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 08:43:43 +0100New XAMPP 1.8.1 for Windows and Linux
The most important updates are: Apache 2.4.3, MySQL 5.5.27, PHP 5.4.7, and phpMyAdmin 3.5.2.2.

Yes, last Friday Oracle released a new MySQL 5.5.28. This version is not part of XAMPP. The time was to short to include this also in this release.

Again, we're not able to get also the Mac OS X version updated. Time is the problem. Is there anyone out there with good knowledge about GCC and AMP on Mac OS X?

Get the downloads and more details on the platform specific XAMPP project page.]]>http://www.apachefriends.org/en/news-article,198525.htmlMon, 01 Oct 2012 07:40:58 +0200Results of the XAMPP 2012 survey
It will take some time for us to go through the results, but if you're curious about the raw results, please feel free to look at the linked PDF. Thank you all again and hopefully you’ll find this data as interesting as we do.

http://www.apachefriends.org/files/surveys/af-survey-2012-raw.pdf]]>http://www.apachefriends.org/en/news-article,198368.htmlMon, 24 Sep 2012 17:04:56 +0200Apache Friends XAMPP 2012 Survey
The survey will run for about one month (until end of September), after which we will publish the results right here.

Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey. We appreciate your feedback and we will use it to make XAMPP even more useful and enjoyable.

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/survey-2012.html]]>http://www.apachefriends.org/en/news-article,197483.htmlMon, 20 Aug 2012 23:34:40 +0200New XAMPP 1.8.0 for Linux and Windows
The most important updates are: Apache 2.4.2, MySQL 5.5.25a, PHP 5.4.4, and phpMyAdmin 3.5.1.

After this release we will focus again on the Mac OS X version of XAMPP. Sorry, for the delay, we're simply short on man power.

Get the downloads and more details on the platform specific XAMPP project page.]]>http://www.apachefriends.org/en/news-article,196165.htmlFri, 13 Jul 2012 21:03:06 +0200The new XAMPP 1.7.7 for Windows, Linux, and Solaris is out!
But let's get to the point: What's new in this version?

This time we updated Apache to 2.2.21, MySQL to 5.5.16, PHP to 5.3.8, and phpMyAdmin to 3.4.5, as well as the usual minor updates of libraries or system-specific components.

Also new: There's now a Solaris version for x86 processors and both Solaris versions now support the PHP Oracle extension out-of-the-box, i.e. there is no installation of additional libraries needed to access an Oracle database.

All downloads and further details about the new versions are available at the respective XAMPP project page.

PS: Congratulations to the Berlin Pirates! ;)]]>http://www.apachefriends.org/en/news-article,185274.htmlWed, 21 Sep 2011 00:27:25 +0200Finally: New XAMPP 1.7.4 for Windows, Linux and Solaris
The good news: The Solaris version has left beta status and is for the first time available as a full XAMPP version (currently only for SPARC, but we'll present a first x86 version at CeBIT next month). The bad news: There is no updated version for Mac OS X yet and for Windows, there will be no automated update from 1.7.3 to 1.7.4. We're very sorry about this.

In all three versions we updated: Apache to 2.2.17, MySQL to 5.5.8, PHP to 5.3.5 and phpMyAdmin to 3.3.9, as well as minor updates in the libraries or system-specific components.

Get the downloads and further details about the new versions on the specific platforms XAMPP project page.]]>http://www.apachefriends.org/en/news-article,172737.htmlWed, 26 Jan 2011 16:37:32 +0100Final version of XAMPP for Mac OS X 1.7.3 released
Updated in this version of XAMPP: MySQL (5.1.44), PHP (5.3.1), phpMyAdmin (3.2.4), Apache (2.2.14), Perl (5.10.1), and ProFTPD (1.3.3).

You find the download at XAMPP's Mac OS X page.]]>http://www.apachefriends.org/en/news-article,157383.htmlFri, 05 Mar 2010 08:10:08 +0100Bug fix release: XAMPP for Linux 1.7.3a
You can download the new version from our XAMPP for Linux page.]]>http://www.apachefriends.org/en/news-article,154891.htmlSun, 10 Jan 2010 12:04:10 +0100Merry Christmas with a new XAMPP
We're proud to announce two new XAMPP versions for Windows and Linux today. In both versions we updated Apache to 2.2.14, MySQL to 5.1.41, PHP to 5.3.1, Perl to 5.10.1, phpMyAdmin to 3.2.4, and OpenSSL to 0.9.8l. An updated version for Mac OS X will follow soon, but currently the Apache refuses to perform his Xmas duty on a Mac.

Both downloads and more details on the specific platform's XAMPP project page.]]>http://www.apachefriends.org/en/news-article,154184.htmlThu, 24 Dec 2009 09:49:21 +0100