What's new in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 9.1
Oct 20, 2019
- Added support for macOS Catalina.
- Removed support for PHP 5.5.x and below, and MySQL 5.0 and MySQL 4. Just open your project in CDBuilder, and select PHP 5.6.x or PHP 7.2.x and MySQL 5.5 to update it to supported versions of PHP and MySQL.
- iOnCube loader for PHP 7.2.1 on macOS has been fixed.
- Minor fixes and improvements.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 9.0 (Oct 20, 2019)
- Added support for 64-bit Linux - now Prototypes can be run on 64-bit Linux without installing any additional packages.
- PHP versions 5.6.x and 7.2.x for Linux have got support for 'intl' extension.
- Major performance improvements - sites start much faster now.
- Minor fixes and improvements.
- The demo now includes the recent Wordpress, Joomla and PHPBB3.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 5.9 (Jan 31, 2012)
- Added Portable Firefox 9.0.1 package for Mac OS 10.5 and above - now you can include it with your CD or DVD or downloadable app. Thus you can rely on modern web technologies without a fear that they won't be supported by user's browser
- Various minor improvements have been made
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 5.8 (Nov 29, 2011)
- Now you can use Portable Firefox 8.0 as a browser on Windows. The added version of Portable Firefox supports HTTP over Named Pipes, stopping server on closing browser window, and hidden interface elements - i.e. capable of all features of previous build of Portable Firefox available for SAWS (it was based on Portable Firefox 3.5.3). This allows you to use CSS3 and all other modern web standards for your site deployed to CD or DVD.
- Various minor improvements have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 5.7 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Now special mode is enabled for MySQL in PHP by default. With any MySQL connection string, your PHP code will open connection to MySQL server started by SAWS. This removes the need to alter PHP code when adapting it for running off CD.
- Now reading of .htaccess files anywhere inside document root is enabled by default.
- iOnCube loaders have been updated to most recent version.
- Various minor improvements have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 5.6 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Now startup of web server while it's shutdown of the server is in progress does not fail. With previous versions, it was impossible to start the server up during 30 seconds since shutdown of the web server.
- Various minor improvements have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 5.5 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Portable Firefox is now unpacked to permament directory (instead of temporary directory) on Windows on first run. This prevents problems caused by use of some disk cleaning tools.
- Added support for PHP XSL extension to PHP 5.3.5 on Windows.
- PHP 5.3.5 for Windows has got support for mysql connection string remapping too. This means you won't have to change your PHP code in order to support http over named pipes at all.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 5.4 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Added support for PHP 5.3.5. It's not available for PowerPC-based MacOS X though (so it's supported on Mac OS X for x86-based CPUs, Windows and Linux).
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 5.3 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Now you can configure web server to stop once last browser window is closed on Windows and Mac OS X.
- This is supported only when supplied custom build of Portable Firefox is used as browser.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 5.2 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Now MySQL tables that use InnoDB storage engine are correctly supported.
- Now HTTP over Named Pipes requires NO changes to arguments of mysql_connect() and mysqli_connect() PHP functions. Previous versions required use of $_SERVER['MYSQL_HOST_PHP'] variable as mysql connection string, now it's not required. This is very important change.
- Added native support and helper scripts to allow running Wordpress-based sites from CD or flash drive without any efforts; see details in the article "How to run Wordpress on CD, DVD or USB".
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 5.1 (Jul 22, 2010)
- Project Manager now can optimize directory structure (by moving all helper directories into single directory) and can pack Project into cross-platform ZIP file (after unpacking it you'll get correct file permissions on Mac and Linux) (video).
- Greatly improved CDInspector utility. Now it became more intuitive to use.
- Added a lot of introductionary videos on creating a web server application for thumb drive to our site.
- Recommended approach to creating Prototypes has been greatly simplified. Now user should create an empty project using wizard, then make the prototype, run it, and use CDInspector to open documents root and PHPMyAdmin in running Prototype. The user should copy the web scripts into the documents root of running Prototype and import .sql file using PHPMyAdmin. Once Prototype is working the way user expects, it should be stopped. Then user has to do 'Copy from prototype' ⇒ 'Copy db files and web docs back from prototype to input dir' - this will copy all database files and web scripts from Project's Output Directory into Project's Input Directory. (video).
- Various minor improvements and bug fixes have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 5.0 (Jul 22, 2010)
- Now it's possible to pack all static documents (like .html, .css, .jpg, .png, .swf) into single encrypted protected storage - those static web documents will be served directly off protected storage in that case.
- Fixed issues with Apache2 support.
- Fixed issues with Linux support.
- Now it's possible to copy database and web scripts from Project's output directory back into Project's input directory.
- Various minor improvements and bug fixes have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 4.1 (Apr 7, 2010)
- Improved use of MySQL and SQLite from Tomcat server-side code.
- Greatly improved and streamlined import of MySQL databases from .sql files.
- Fixed issue with browsing MySQL databases using CDInspector.
- Various minor improvements and bug fixes have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 4.0 (Apr 7, 2010)
- Added support for Apache2-based web server on Windows. This makes some PHP-based sites more stable on Windows. Also it brings support for ModPerl2 since ModPerl2 is available only for Apache2. It can be enabled on the main page of Site Settings in CDBuilder. Python is not supported by Apache2 though.
- Revolutionary improvement: added support for HTTP over Named Pipes on Windows - now server can be made listening only on named pipes; included modified version of Portable Firefox also does not use TCP sockets at all but connects to web server using named pipe. HTTP over Named Pipes solves all issues with firewalls that can be blocking server and browser operation. MySQL is run in named pipe-only mode too when HTTP over Named Pipes is used. Now users of products based on Stunnix Advanced Web Server for CD won't see any firewall alerts, meaning that local web server-based applications are even more attractive for deployment.
- Problem with splash screen covering firewall alert message at first run of web server has been fixed.
- Various minor improvements and bug fixes have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 3.6 (Aug 27, 2009)
- Added full support for PHP 5.2.10 on all platforms. Zend and IonCube encoders supported on all platforms for this version of php. PHP 5.2.10 is now default version of PHP for new projects. Already-existing projects will still use 5.1.2, one needs to manuall change version of PHP used by the Prototype in CDBuilder, Project, "Site settings." PHP 5.3.x is not yet supported since Zend and IonCube haven't released loaders for PHP 5.3.x.
- Added startup debugging kit. If your prototype does not even start, run a startup in tracing mode by visiting site/stunnixwebsrv/debug/ directory and starting script corresponding to your platform.
- Various minor improvements and bug fixes have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 3.5 (Aug 27, 2009)
- Added support for Portable Firefox on OSX. Use of Portable Firefox version 2.x as a browser on Mac OS X will insure you that your site will display correctly on any computer with Mac OS X of version 10.2 and above.
- Added support for Zend Optimizer (loader for php files encoded with Zend Guard/Encoder) to PHP 5 on Mac OS X for x86 CPUs. This change allows to use Zend-encoded php files with your CD-based websites since Zend Optimizer is now available for all platforms and all versions of PHP supported by SAWS.
- Added support for soap php extension for php5 on all platforms.
- Various minor improvements and bug fixes have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 3.4 (May 4, 2009)
- CDBuilder has got wizard that helps to configure CD prototype. It's activated automatically once new project is created. One can recall it at any time using Project ⇒ "Re-run settings wizard" menu item.
- In CDBuilder, now it's possible to update files that are older, skipping database import. This greatly improves the speed of updating the prototype. This command affects only MySQL and only cases when MySQL data is imported from .sql files. This menuitem for this action is "Make Prototype" ⇒ "Update files that are older, skip import of .sql files"
- Runcd.exe - a program Windows users use to start web server now better handles cases when splash screen was not specified by the user.
- Various minor improvements.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 3.3 (Apr 9, 2009)
- CDBuilder has got support for skins. The default skin is now "silver", previous default skin is available as "red".
- Server configuration (i.e. whether MySQL is enabled; whether site is running from writeable media and so on) is now exported both to client-side scripts (as JavaScript object named "stunnix_web_server_status" defined by file with URL "/webserver-special-interface/status-all.js") and to server-side scripts (as info in JSON format, available in file $ENV['STUNNIXWS_TMPSTATEDIR']/status-all-json.js).
- Runcd.exe - a program Windows users use to start web server - got a proper icon and metadata, improving overall users' impression about the CD-based or usbdrive-based product.
- Various minor improvements.
New in Stunnix Advanced WEB Server 2.2 (May 8, 2007)
- Added support for Firebird database (only for Windows for now)
- Fixed support for Windows Vista
- Disable Windows XP SP2 Firewall alerts for all servers started.
- Fixed a lot of bugs and made a lot of small improvements.