JumpBox Official Blog

Hello,

We are pleased to introduce the newest addition to JumpBox Open, the JumpBox for Magento eCommerce.

Magento is an open source eCommerce application that allows merchants to build, create, and manage online storefronts. Magento’s customizable solution features tools for site management, marketing promotions, search engine optimization, and catalog management. Winner of ‘08 awards from Infoworld magazine and SourceForge.net, Magento’s open source eCommerce platform is the most flexible eCommerce solution available today. Free from vendor lock in merchants can upgrade features quickly, and add specific functionality as needed. Magento helps you do eCommerce, the JumpBox for Magento helps you do it quickly and easily. With enhanced features like backup and restore, the JumpBox for Magento is the perfect eCommerce solution.

Build, create, and manage online storefronts - Magento is available to JumpBox Open subscribers immediately.

Magento features tools for site management, marketing
promotions, search engine optimization, catalog management, and more. Winner of ‘Best of 2008′ awards from Infoworld magazine and SourceForge.net, Magento is the most highly respected open source ecommerce solution available today.

Here are 3 cool sites from around the world built with Magento:

• Based in London, UKKO is a new luxury menswear brand for fashion conscious golfers both on and off the course. Fore!

• Famed table radio producer Tivoli Audio expands online in the Czech Republic with Magento.

• From the USA, NerdyShirts.com sells unique tee shirts for nerds. Our favorite? Mii Love.

Magento gives you ecommerce. The JumpBox for Magento helps you get started quickly and easily. Take the JumpBox for Magento for a spin and see for yourself!

Setting JumpBoxes Free

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve made a number of changes to the JumpBox web site and in the process made a nice selection of JumpBoxes available as FREE downloads. Currently there are 12 JumpBoxes available on the FREE Downloads page and we’ll be adding more as time goes by. The list of free JumpBoxes currently includes: Joomla 1.5, Movable Type, Moin Moin, TikiWiki, SugarCRM 4.5 and SilverStripe along with several more. Please check out the FREE downloads page for the current list.

Online Trials for Subscriber Only JumpBoxes

Another cool thing we’ve just introduced is a new online trial mechanism that allows anyone to try out the subscriber only JumpBoxes with nothing more than a web browser. Just look for the orange “Try this JumpBox” buttons on the site and you can get a one hour, full function trial of any JumpBox without having to download a thing. We think this feature is pretty cool, but it’s still somewhat experimental so if you try it out, please let us know what you think about it.

Why subscribers love JumpBox Open

If you haven’t subscribed to JumpBox Open, here’s what you’re missing:

• Fast, secure, agile solutions to your problems. JumpBox Open provides award winning applications that deploy in minutes. On top of that, Backup and Restore functionality keeps your data secure and gives you the flexibility to deploy to almost any environment.
• An investment that constantly gains value. JumpBox Open subscribers received an additional 15 applications this year at no added cost. Applications for Human Resource Management, Blogging, Project Management, and more.
• More for less - With growing
  budget constraints, reduced staffing, and less time available, the
  value of JumpBox Open has never been more clear. “Get more done for less.” Less time, less frustration, less cost. Subscribers automatically receive every new application and updated releases over their subscription.

Now is a great time to subscribe to JumpBox Open

Updated JumpBoxes

• JumpBox for Bugzilla 1.1.3 (More Info)

  Bugzilla is a web-based bug tracking system that allow individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product. Bugzilla competes with many commercial bug tracking systems and has many features its expensive counterparts lack.

  Updated to Bugzilla 3.0.6 which fixes some security issues. (Bugzilla release notes)

• JumpBox for LAMP Deployment 1.1.3 (More Info)

  The JumpBox for LAMP Deployment is a great utility system that allows you to easily deploy applications where a tailored JumpBox may not exist. It contains MySQL plus PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python along with PHPMyAdmin to help you manage the database. Using the JumpBox for LAMP Deployment you can easily deploy many popular PHP applications as well as CGI based Perl, Ruby and Python applications.

  Minor update. (Release notes)

• JumpBox for Moodle 1.1.5 (More Info)

  Moodle is a course management system that allows educators to create online learning communities for their students. It has an open design with a large developer community creating plugins, themes and modules. It’s used all over the world in environments large and small and is one of the better supported Open Source course management systems. The JumpBox for Moodle is a great way to get up to speed with Moodle and requires a minimal investment in time and money. It’s a production ready installation of Moodle and includes the JumpBox management tools and backup system to help make operations as simple as possible. If you’ve ever wanted to give Moodle a try, the JumpBox is the easiest way to do it.

  Fixed an issue with how Unicode was being handled in the database. (Release notes)

• JumpBox for PunBB 1.1.5 (More Info)

  PunBB is a lightweight discussion forum that provides the essential features to host a thriving community without the tedious database, web server and application setup. It may have fewer bells and whistles than other forum applications but it has an intuitive user interface and renders XHTML-compliant output.

  Updated to PunBB 1.3 which adds a number of enhancements. This JumpBox is also now a FREE download. (PunBB release notes)

We’ve been quite busy over the last few weeks and today everything finally comes together so I have a bunch of things to share.

JumpBox for Openfire

First there is a new addition to JumpBox Open, the JumpBox for OpenFire. OpenFire is a real-time collaboration server (better known as instant messaging) based around the open Jabber XMPP protocol. It provides private and public instant messaging and group chat with support for any client that supports Jabber. It’s a really great system that we believe provides a nice addition to JumpBox Open. This release is available to all JumpBox Open subscribers and existing subscribers should have already received a download link and license keys. If you are a JumpBox Open subscriber and did not receive your key please contact us.

Powered by JumpBox

Next we’re very happy to be announcing a new service from JumpBox targeted at Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). This service is called “Powered by JumpBox” and allows ISVs to work with us on the creation of JumpBoxes for commercial applications. This allows us to share the expertise and quick to deploy experience we’ve developed for our Open Source based JumpBoxes with other developers and to bring greatly simplified deployment to their applications. This also brings more JumpBoxes into the world and while the applications won’t be part of JumpBox Open they will retain the common set of features that make up a JumpBox. This new service will also drive improvements to the JumpBox Platform that will find their way back into JumpBox Open.

Six Apart is the first customer for Powered by JumpBox

We’re also very excited to be announcing that Six Apart is the first customer for “Powered by JumpBox”. Over the past few months we’ve been working with them on simplifying the deployment of Movable Type and this has resulted in a number of exciting developments.

1. A new JumpBox for the commercial version of Movable Type. This is being released today under the name “Virtual Movable Type Pro by JumpBox” and is available directly from movabletype.com.
2. The current JumpBox for Movable Type Open Source is now available completely free through the JumpBox web site.
3. The JumpBox for Movable Type is now an official distribution format for the Open Source version of Movable Type as well as for Movable Type Pro.

If you’re not familiar with Six Apart and Movable Type, here’s the summary.

Movable Type is Six Apart’s flagship blog software product, launched in 2001. Today, this robust social publishing platform powers the websites and blogs of many of the world’s largest media companies, Fortune 100 businesses, small and medium sized businesses, and power bloggers. Movable Type is a fully integrated, scalable, proven social publishing platform upon which to build highly interactive websites, blogs and social networks.

JumpBox participates in VMware Ready program

And one final announcement, this week we also participated with VMware in the launch of the VMware Ready verification program for virtual appliances. This is of primary benefit to customers of Powered by JumpBox, but since all JumpBoxes share a common base any improvements we release will be inherited by everything in JumpBox Open. You can find out more about VMware Ready here.

Find me at VMworld and get a JumpBox T-Shirt

OK, just one more thing, this week I’m at VMworld in Las Vegas and will be wearing the new JumpBox t-shirt around. Steven debuted it on the blog earlier this week, but I’m carrying some extras with me so if you happen to be attending VMworld and see me walking around, feel free to stop me. I’d love to talk with some JumpBox users while I’m here.

Updated JumpBoxes

Wow, that’s quite a lot of news, no wonder we’re so exhausted, but there is more. We also have a bunch of JumpBox updates to share.

• JumpBox for Joomla 1.5.x 1.1.4 (Download)

  Joomla! is arguably the world’s most popular open source content management system for public facing web sites. Joomla 1.5 is a ground-up rework of the Joomla 1.0 code base moving it to a true MVC architecture.

  Updated to Joomla 1.5.7 which is a security release with a number of important fixes. (Joomla 1.5.x release notes)

• JumpBox for OTRS 1.1.3 (Download)

  OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries.

  OTRS has been updated to 2.3.2. (OTRS release notes)

• JumpBox for Movable Type 1.1.3 (Download)

  Movable Type is Six Apart’s flagship blog software product, launched in 2001. Today, this robust social publishing platform powers the websites and blogs of many of the world’s largest media companies, Fortune 100 businesses, small and medium sized businesses, and power bloggers. Movable Type is a fully integrated, scalable, proven social publishing platform upon which to build highly interactive websites, blogs and social networks.

  Updated to Movable Type 4.21 and made free. (Movable Type Release)

• JumpBox for PunBB 1.1.3 (Download)

  PunBB is a lightweight discussion forum that provides the essential features to host a thriving community without the tedious database, web server and application setup. It may have fewer bells and whistles than other forum applications but it has an intuitive user interface and renders XHTML-compliant output.

  Updated to PunBB 1.2.20 which fixes a cross site scripting security problem. (PunBB release notes)

Over the last couple weeks we’ve released a large number of updated JumpBoxes. There were two critical security issues detected in PHP and Python for which fixes have been incorporated into these updated releases. Updating is recommended for all users.

The following JumpBoxes have been updated: Moin Moin, OpenLDAP, Trac, Cacti, vTiger, TikiWiki, SugarCRM 4.5.x, Silverstripe, PMWiki, MySQL, Drupal 5.x, Drupal 6.x, Enterprise Wiki, Moodle, MediaWiki, Mantis, PunBB, Joomla 1.0.x, phpBB, DokuWiki, Wordpress

Note: if you’ve downloaded any of these in the past week you may already have the updated version so check the JumpBox version number.

Updated Production JumpBoxes

There are a few application updates we wanted to highlight as well. These also incorporate the latest platform fixes.

• JumpBox for SugarCRM 5.x 1.1.3 (Download)

  SugarCRM is a market leading customer relationship management (CRM) application. SugarCRM’s open source architecture easily adapts to any business environment by offering a more flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications.

  Updated to SugarCRM 5.0.0g which is a regular maintenance release. (SugarCRM 5 release notes)

• JumpBox for ProjectPier 1.1.2 (Download)

  Project Pier is an Open-Source, self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface. ProjectPier will help your organization communicate, collaborate and get things done.

  This release has been updated to ProjectPier 0.8.0.3 which contains a few minor bug fixes. (ProjectPier release notes)

• JumpBox for MoinMoin 1.1.3 (Download)

  MoinMoin is an advanced, easy to use and extensible Wiki Engine with a large community of users. It’s written in Python and has a clean easy to understand user interface. Since it’s a Python program it’s not one of the most popular wikis, but that’s a shame as it has a very clean interface and is a very powerful tool for documentation projects. This makes the JumpBox for MoinMoin even more valuable, because it allows us to expose this great Wiki system to more users who we believe will find it quite valuable.

  Updated to MoinMoin 1.7.1 which fixes a number of bugs. (MoinMoin release notes)

• JumpBox for Joomla 1.5.x 1.1.2 (Download)

  Joomla! is arguably the world’s most popular open source content management system for public facing web sites. Joomla 1.5 is a ground-up rework of the Joomla 1.0 code base moving it to a true MVC architecture.

  Updated to Joomla 1.5.5 which is a maintenance release that fixes several bugs and some security issues. (Joomla 1.5.x release notes)

Hello,

In the past week we’ve released 12 updated JumpBoxes and we’re now almost complete with the transition to the new JumpBox Platform 1.1. At this point everything except the JumpBoxes for TWiki and OpenLDAP have been updated. Those two should follow later this week.

This 1.1 platform update is a very important one and is the foundation that will allow us to deliver a number of interesting capabilities in the coming months. The first new capability was introduced last week with the ability to run a select set of JumpBoxes on Amazon EC2. We’ve now published a tutorial on our blog that will walk you through the process of getting a JumpBox running on the Amazon service. We currently have JumpBoxes for MediaWiki, Wordpress, Movable Type and Bugzilla available as public AMIs for the service. AMIs for the full collection of JumpBoxes will be included in JumpBox Open Plus and Premium subscriptions shortly after we complete updating everything to the new 1.1 platform.

Of additional note: the newly updated JumpBox blog is now running on a JumpBox for Wordpress using Amazon EC2 as a hosting platform. EC2 has some limitations as a hosting service but it’s a very convenient way to get a JumpBox running on the internet and we’ve been able to take advantage of JumpBox platform features like S3 backups to work around some of the limitations of EC2. We’ll be sharing more of our experiences in this area along with additional tips on running JumpBoxes in EC2 on the new blog. Subscribing to the blog is highly recommended if you want to learn how to maximize the value of using JumpBox.

Updated Production JumpBoxes

For all of these the only change is the update to the new JumpBox Platform.

• JumpBox for Trac 1.1.0 (Download)

  Updated to the JumpBox Platform 1.1. This JumpBox still includes Trac 0.10.4. The Trac project has made 0.11.0 the new stable release and we will be issuing a new build of the JumpBox in a few weeks to support that version. If you’re interested in getting that new version it’s highly recommended that you first update to this new platform 1.1 based release.

• JumpBox for OTRS 1.1.0 (Download)

  Updated to the JumpBox Platform 1.1 and OTRS 2.2.7.

• JumpBox for Alfresco 1.1.0 (Download)

  Updated to the JumpBox Platform 1.1. We had intended to update this to Alfresco 2.9 for this release but some problems were encountered with that version and we had to stay with Alfresco 2.1. A new build of this JumpBox with Alfresco 2.9 will be coming in a few weeks.

• JumpBox for SugarCRM 5.x 1.1.0 (Download)

  Updated to SugarCRM 5.0.0f.

• JumpBox for Moodle 1.1.0 (Download)

  Updated to the JumpBox Platform 1.1 and Moodle has been updated to 1.9.1 in this release.

• JumpBox for vTiger 1.1.0 (Download)

  Updated to the JumpBox Platform 1.1. vTiger version is still 5.0.4 in this release.

• JumpBox for Moin Moin 1.1.0 (Download)

  Updated to the JumpBox Platform 1.1. Moin Moin version is still 1.6.3 in this release.

• JumpBox for PunBB 1.1.0 (Download)

  Updated to the JumpBox Platform 1.1. PunBB version is still 1.2.17 in this release.

• JumpBox for TikiWiki 1.1.0 (Download)

  Updated to the JumpBox Platform 1.1. TikiWiki version is still 1.9.11 in this release.

• JumpBox for Project Pier 1.1.0 (Download)

  Updated to the JumpBox Platform 1.1. Project Pier version is still 0.8.0.2 in this release.

Updated Beta JumpBoxes

• JumpBox for Redmine 1.1.0 (Download)

  Updated with Redmine 0.7.2. We’re still waiting for Redmine to stabilize before making this JumpBox production.

• JumpBox for Silverstripe 1.1.0 (Download)

  Updated to the 1.1 JumpBox Platform and Silverstripe 2.2.2. This release of Silverstripe is much improved over the previous releases with a more polished UI and a little more functionality out of the box. Silverstripe is intended to be used a little differently than the more popular CMS systems like Joomla and Drupal. Where those systems are intended to allow you to create the entire site online, Silverstripe is geared toward allowing non-technical users to edit the content of a site that’s been created by a separate web designer.

We’re happy to announce that six more JumpBoxes have been updated to the new JumpBox Platform 1.1.

Here’s a quick overview of the changes in this new platform. All updated JumpBoxes inherit these capabilities.

1. The underlying operating system has been updated to Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS. This has brought a number of other updates to things like Apache, MySQL and other libraries used with the applications.
2. The backup system now supports Amazon S3, JumpBox to JumpBox and direct download as backup options. The addition of Amazon S3 is particularly nice as it gives you a really easy way to setup offsite backups.
3. There’s a new one click tool to turn on SSL encryption for the application.
4. A web stats package is now included by default and can be turned on with a single click.
5. There’s a new tool to help you configure the JumpBox to send email.
6. You can now put JumpBoxes into “maintenance mode” which allows you to keep users out of the application while working on administration tasks.
7. In general lots and lots of bug fixes, security improvements and a number of little niceties like friendlier 404 pages have been added.

We’ll be publishing much more information on this new platform in the coming weeks as we work on getting all the existing JumpBoxes updated.

Updated Production JumpBoxes

For all of these the only change is the update to the new JumpBox Platform.

• JumpBox for Cacti 1.1.0 (Download)Cacti is version 0.8.7b in this JumpBox.
• JumpBox for Drupal 5.x 1.1.0 (Download)Drupal is version 5.7 in this JumpBox. Note: this JumpBox is for Drupal 5.x a separate JumpBox is also available for Drupal 6.x.
• JumpBox for Bugzilla 1.1.0 (Download)Bugzilla is version 3.0.4 in this JumpBox.
• JumpBox for Joomla 1.1.0 (Download)Joomla is version 1.0.15 in this JumpBox. Note: this JumpBox is for Joomla 1.0.x a separate JumpBox is also available for Joomla 1.5.x.
• JumpBox for MediaWiki 1.1.0 (Download)MediaWiki is version 1.12.0 in this JumpBox.
• JumpBox for Wordpress 1.1.0 (Download)Wordpress is version 2.5.1 in this JumpBox.

Thanks for supporting JumpBox and as always, feel free to send us feedback.

Hello,

We’re happy to announce the availability of six new JumpBoxes based on the JumpBox Platform 1.1. These are the first production releases made on this new and considerably improved platform. Here are just a few of the things that have changed with this platform revision.

1. The underlying operating system has been updated to Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS. This has brought a number of other updates to things like Apache, MySQL and other libraries used with the applications.
2. The backup system now supports Amazon S3, JumpBox to JumpBox and direct download as backup options. The addition of Amazon S3 is particularly nice as it gives you a really easy way to setup offsite backups.
3. There’s a new one click tool to turn on SSL encryption for the application.
4. A web stats package is now included by default and can be turned on with a single click.
5. There’s a new tool to help you configure the JumpBox to send email.
6. You can now put JumpBoxes into “maintenance mode” which allows you to keep users out of the application while working on administration tasks.
7. In general lots and lots of bug fixes, security improvements and a number of little niceties like friendlier 404 pages have been added.

We’ll be publishing much more information on this new platform in the coming weeks as we work on getting all the existing JumpBoxes updated.

Other News

• With these new releases, licenses are only available with a JumpBox Open Subscription.
• Three of the new JumpBoxes are exclusively available to JumpBox Open Subscribers. Existing Open subscribers will receive download links along with license keys within the next day or so.

New Production JumpBoxes

• JumpBox for Movable Type 1.1.0 (Download)Movable Type is a powerful, multi-user blogging platform. It’s widely used as a business blogging tool thanks to the ease with which you can create multiple blog sites. It has a large community and many add-ons available.
• JumpBox for Drupal 6.x 1.1.0 (Download)Drupal is an Open Source, web content management (WCM) system. It provides a simple, intuitive interface that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website without programming skills. This JumpBox is for Drupal 6.x.
• JumpBox for SugarCRM 5.x 1.1.0 (Download)SugarCRM is a market leading customer relationship management (CRM) application. SugarCRM’s open source architecture easily adapts to any business environment by offering a more flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications. This JumpBox is for SugarCRM 5.x.

New Production JumpBoxes - Exclusively Available to JumpBox Open Subscribers

• JumpBox for Nagios 1.1.0 (Info)Nagios is an Open Source host, service and network monitoring system that will watch your network and alert you to problems before your clients or end-users do. The system runs checks on hosts and services that you specify using plugins that return status information to Nagios. When problems are encountered the system will send notifications to system administrators so that they can take action on the problem.
• JumpBox for MySQL 1.1.0 (Info)MySQL is probably the most widely used relational databases around. It’s used as an integral component in many JumpBoxes and is also useful to have available in an easy to use standalone version. This JumpBox includes MySQL 5 along with PHPMyAdmin setup and ready to run. It’s a great tool for developing database backed applications and can also be used along with other JumpBoxes if you need to move the database into a separate virtual machine.
• JumpBox for LAMP Deployment 1.1.0 (Info)The JumpBox for LAMP Deployment is a great utility system that allows you to easily deploy applications where a tailored JumpBox may not exist. It contains MySQL plus PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python along with PHPMyAdmin to help you manage the database. Using the JumpBox for LAMP Deployment you can easily deploy many popular PHP applications as well as CGI based Perl, Ruby and Python applications.

Thanks for supporting JumpBox and as always, feel free to send us feedback.

Kimbro Staken

JumpBox Inc.

Hello,

We’re happy to announce the production release of the JumpBox for Moodle and to celebrate, we’re offering 10%off JumpBox Open Subscriptions. That’s 21 JumpBoxes, all for a single price, and the value just keeps growing as we release new applications.

To take advantage of this offer use the following coupon during checkout.

Coupon code: MOODLE-LAUNCH-PROMO

This offer ends at midnight PST on May 16. That’s only a few days away.

Moodle is a very popular course management system used by educators around the world to create learning communities for their students. This JumpBox was a popular request so we’re thrilled to add it as the newest member of the JumpBox Open Collection.

Now on with our regularly scheduled summary of update activity in the Open Collection.

News

• The JumpBox Platform 1.1 beta is moving along nicely. With the most recent updates we’ve moved the underlying operating system to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. This will be the version of Ubuntu that all 1.1 Platform based JumpBoxes will ship with. We’re expecting the initial production release of 1.1 based JumpBoxes within a few weeks. If you haven’t tried out the new platform now is a great time to visit the Proving Grounds and kick the tires a little. The new platform is a big improvement and you can learn more about what’s new in this blog post.

New Production JumpBox

• JumpBox for Moodle 1.0 (Download)This is the first production release of the JumpBox for the Moodle course management system. This JumpBox contains Moodle 1.9. Existing JumpBox Open Subscribers should have already received keys for this JumpBox.

Updated Production JumpBoxes

• JumpBox for DokuWiki new version 1.0.4 (Download)Updated to DokuWiki 2008.05.05
• JumpBox for Bugzilla new version 1.0.3 (Download)Updated to Bugzilla 3.0.4
• JumpBox for phpBB new version 1.0.1 (Download)Updated to phpBB 3.0.1

Updated Beta JumpBoxes in the Proving Grounds

• JumpBox for Nagios 0.9.3 (Download)Updated with latest JumpBox Platform 1.1 beta and fixes for a bug related to backup restoration.
• JumpBox for MySQL 0.9.1 (Download)Updated with latest JumpBox Platform 1.1 beta.
• JumpBox for SugarCRM 5 0.9.1 (Download)Updated with latest JumpBox Platform 1.1 beta and SugarCRM version 5.0.0d.
• JumpBox for MovableType 0.9.2 (Download)Updated with latest JumpBox Platform 1.1 beta.

That’s all for this week. Thanks for supporting JumpBox and as always, feel free to send us feedback.

Kimbro Staken

Hello,

This is a summary of recent activity in the JumpBox Open Collection.

News

• JumpBox updates this time around include a number of application revisions. Most of these are minor, but pretty much all of them address security issues so it’s definitely recommended that you get the latest version for any JumpBoxes you may be using.
• We recently sent out a survey to learn more about your interest in hosting solutions for JumpBoxes. If you already filled out the survey we really appreciate it, and if not we’d still love to hear from you. One thing I’d like to clarify is that we’re looking at hosting solutions as an additional option for deploying JumpBoxes. There was some concern that the downloadable option would go away which isn’t the case. In fact, a big goal for us is to enable easy migration from a local install to a hosted install so that you can use the JumpBox to build your site locally and then easily push it onto a hosted service for public deployment.Click Here to take the survey
• A final reminder, we have a number of new JumpBoxes undergoing beta testing in the Proving Grounds. Many of which are based on the 1.1 JumpBox platform. There will be a new 1.1 beta coming within the next week or so and we can definitely use some more feedback to help accelerate the

Have questions, comments or suggestions, please let us know how we can help. And remember, you can also getJumpBox updates on Twitter.

Updated Production JumpBoxes

• JumpBox for Wordpress new version 1.0.9 (Download)Updated to Wordpress 2.5.1 - Minor update but some important security and stability fixes.
• JumpBox for Joomla! 1.5 new version 1.0.3 (Download)Updated to Joomla! 1.5.3 - Minor bugfix and security release.
• JumpBox for SugarCRM new version 1.0.7 (Download)Updated to SugarCRM 4.5.1i - Minor bugfix release.
• JumpBox for TikiWiki new version 1.0.2 (Download)Updated to TikiWiki 1.9.11 - Minor bugfix release.
• JumpBox for Moin Moin new version 1.0.2 (Download)Updated to Moin Moin 1.6.3 - Minor bugfix release.

That’s all for this time around. Thanks for supporting JumpBox.

Kimbro

This is a summary of recent activity in the JumpBox Open Collection.

News

• Get JumpBox updates on Twitter. Along with this email and our blog you can also get updates on new JumpBox releases by following us on Twitter. Twitter will usually be the first place to find out about new JumpBox releases.
• Google recently announced the Google App Engine scalable hosting service and we found it quite interesting so we put together a free JumpBox for Google App Engine Development. If you’re a developer and are wondering what it’s like to develop for Google App Engine, the JumpBox is a great way to play around with it.

Have questions, comments or suggestions, please let us know how we can help.

Updated Production JumpBoxes

• JumpBox for Wordpress new version 1.0.8 (Download)Updated to Wordpress 2.5 - This is a fairly significant update to Wordpress that brings a heavily refined administration interface.
• JumpBox for OTRS new version 1.0.2 (Download)Updated to OTRS 2.2.6 - Minor bugfix release.
• JumpBox for Moin Moin new version 1.0.1 (Download)Updated to Moin Moin 1.6.2 - Minor bugfix release.

New Beta JumpBoxes added to the Proving Grounds

• JumpBox for LAMP Deployment 0.9 (Download)This JumpBox provides a simple way to deploy PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby web applications. It’s great for staging, local deployment and for a jump start on deploying apps where no dedicated JumpBox exists. We have lots of interesting plans for this, this initial release is fairly basic.
• JumpBox for Movable Type version 0.9 (Download)Initial release with Movable Type 4.1, based on the JumpBox Platform 1.1 beta.
• JumpBox for SugarCRM 5 version 0.9 (Download)Initial release with SugarCRM 5.0.0b, based on the JumpBox Platform 1.1 beta.

Updated Beta JumpBoxes in the Proving Grounds

• JumpBox for Drupal 6 version 0.9.1 (Download)Fixed a bug with the setting of Time Zones in Drupal.
• JumpBox for Redmine 0.6.3 (Download)Fixed some critical issues that prevented subversion from working.

Coming Soon

Some updates that are almost ready for release.

• The JumpBox for SilverStripe will be updated to the JumpBox Platform 1.1 beta and a new version of SilverStripe. This will make this JumpBox much more usable.

That’s all for this week. Thanks for supporting JumpBox.

Kimbro Staken

It’s been a busy few weeks around the JumpBox offices. With the recent launch of 6 new JumpBoxes, something that we haven’t talked much about is the issuing of a bunch of updated JumpBoxes. So here’s the list.

• The JumpBox for Wordpress was updated to Wordpress 2.3.3
• The JumpBox for TWiki was updated to TWiki 4.2
• The JumpBox for Project Pier was updated to Project Pier 0.8.0.1
• The beta JumpBox for Joomla 1.5 was updated to Joomla 1.5.1 and will be going production soon.
• The JumpBox for Joomla 1.0 was updated to Joomla 1.0.14.
• The JumpBox for Cacti was updated to Cacti 0.8.7b

We also just released a greatly updated JumpBox for Redmine which contains the latest Redmine release, but is also the first public beta of the JumpBox Runtime version 1.1. This adds a number of handy new features to the JumpBox toolset. These changes will find their way into all the other JumpBoxes once we consider the 1.1 Runtime stable. Another post will coming to talk a little more about what’s new in the 1.1 Runtime.