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Community Edition of ownCloud Released
ownCloud Inc. has released a new free more granular administrative control and the sync algorithm for a quicker, better community edition of its open source file adds features such as sub-admins for sync with far less load on the server. The sync and share project, groups, thereby latest ownCloud also includes an app for adding new features providing the automatic updates, along with a basic such as video stream- ability to assign HTML5 presentation program. Other en- ing, mounting of third- a sub-adminis- hancements include: mounting of exter- party storage, and new trator to a nal storage, enhanced sharing, file ver- content sharing. group to handle sioning, and calendar improvements According to the account man- ownCloud allows users to host their press release, the latest agement. own services on their own hardware, use version of ownCloud Additionally, public hosting and storage products, or features significantly the latest ver- both. For more information, please visit faster uploading, downloading, and sion features improved desktop syncing, the ownCloud website at: syncing of files. It offers greater and which reduces server load and enhances http://www.owncloud.com.
Phusion Releases Passenger VMware Announces Micro Cloud Enterprise 4 Foundry Changes Phusion has released Phusion Passenger Enterprise 4.0 beta 1. VMware has announced a new version of Micro Cloud Foundry According to the website, this version includes improved scal- featuring enhanced support for Ruby and Java. Along with ability and concurrency, as well as dramatically improved in- these changes, the project will be adopting a new process to ternal architecture. maintain compatibility between Micro Cloud Foundry and The project website states, “Phusion Passenger is an CloudFoundry.com. Apache and Nginx module for deploying Ruby and Python Changes to the latest version of Micro Cloud Foundry include web applications. It has a strong focus on ease of use, stability support for standalone apps, improved support for Ruby, as and performance. Phusion Passenger is built on top of tried- well as the Rails 3.1 and 3.2 apps, the ability to run JRuby and-true, battle-hardened Unix technologies, yet at the same apps, and enhanced support for Java and Scala. time introduces innovations not found in most traditional According to the website, “Micro Cloud Foundry is a com- Unix servers.” plete version of the Cloud Foundry open PaaS, but it runs in a The changes in Phusion Passenger 4 include support for mul- single virtual machine on a developer’s computer. Micro Cloud tiple Ruby versions, Python WSGI support, multithreading, im- Foundry exemplifies how a multi-cloud approach to PaaS can proved zero-copy architecture, better error diagnostics, and help developers easily develop and test their applications lo- support for JRuby and cally and deploy to any Cloud Foundry-based clouds with no Rubinius. These fea- code or configuration changes.” tures allow users to run The announcement states that, to ensure compatibility be- multiple Ruby versions tween the projects, Micro Cloud Foundry must have the same at the same time in the functionality as CloudFoundry.com. Thus, going forward, same Phusion Passen- Micro Cloud Foundry will feature more frequent releases; a ver- ger instance. Additionally, Phusion Passenger’s I/O handler has sion will be released whenever a change is pushed to Cloud- been completely rewritten and is now “evented,” just like Foundry.com. Nginx and Node.js. Additionally, over the next few months, all aspects of build- Phusion Passenger 4 also introduces real-time response buff- ing, testing, and distributing Micro Cloud Foundry will be auto- ering. Unlike traditional response buffering, Phusion Passenger mated. And, to facilitate testing, a REST interface to Micro sends data to the client immediately, while still providing relief Cloud Foundry will be provided, along with a web interface re- for the application from slow clients, the website said. placing the terminal interaction. You can see the complete list of changes at: http://blog. For more details, please visit: http://blog.cloudfoundry.com/ phusion.nl/2012/10/24/phusion‑passenger‑4‑0‑beta‑1‑is‑here/. 2012/11/08/new‑release‑of‑micro‑cloud‑foundry/.
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