What's new in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 6.0
Jul 26, 2013
- This version adds support for Compressed Web Runtime.
- This technology makes startup time from CD/DVD the same as startup time from HDD on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
- The latest version of the IonCube loader has been integrated, and now supports loading encoded PHP files produced by IonCube Encoder v8.
- Various minor improvements have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 5.14 (Apr 3, 2013)
- Now Apache 2 for Windows shipped with SAWS also supports HTTP over named pipes to avoid firewall warnings.
- Packages of Portable Firefox for Windows have been updated: the GUI no longer locks while the browser is waiting for the server's response over a named pipe.
- Minor improvements have been introduced.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 5.13 (Feb 21, 2013)
- This version supports working off network drives on Windows without mounting them (UNC paths, i.e. using \\server\share as a path).
- Packages of Portable Firefox have been updated; now they don't prompt the user to install system-wide Firefox extensions (like those installed by antiviruses) on the first run of the CD/USB.
- Various minor improvements have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 5.12 (Jan 22, 2013)
- Packages of Portable Firefox 16 for Windows that support HTTP over named pipes have been updated.
- This version adds special handling of Web sites that run Wordpress from optical disks and memory sticks.
- It adds a new menu item to clear all traces of a running Web site from CD/USB drives on the current computer.
- The tray icon on Windows now looks different for CDBuilder. Various minor improvements have been introduced.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 5.11 (Nov 15, 2012)
- A Portable Firefox 16 package was added, with support for HTTP over named pipes.
- Various minor improvements have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 5.9 (Jan 31, 2012)
- This version can run PortableFirefox 9.0.1 off the DVD for displaying a website (also running off the DVD) on MacOS.
- Various minor improvements have been introduced.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 5.8 (Dec 7, 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 the server on closing the browser window, and hidden interface elements, i.e. capable of all features of the previous build of Portable Firefox available for SAWS.
- Various minor improvements have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 5.7 (Nov 9, 2011)
- Now special mode is enabled for MySQL in PHP by default.
- With any MySQL connection string, your PHP code will open a connection to a 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 the document root is enabled by default.
- iOnCube loaders have been updated to most recent version for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
- Various minor improvements have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 5.6 (Sep 14, 2011)
- Shutdown immediately followed by a startup command now works reliably.
- Various minor improvements have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 5.5 (May 25, 2011)
- PHP 5.3.5 for Windows now has 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.
- The XSL extension has been added to PHP 5.3.5 for OS X.
- Now Portable Firefox is handled in more failsafe way.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 5.2 (Oct 15, 2010)
- HTTP over Named Pipes requires no changes to the arguments of mysql_connect() and mysqli_connect() PHP functions now.
- MySQL tables that use the InnoDB storage engine are correctly supported now.
- Native support and helper scripts have been added to allow running Wordpress-based sites from a CD or flash drive without efforts.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 5.1 (Jul 20, 2010)
- Project Manager now can optimize directory structure (by moving all helper directories into a single directory) and can pack a Project into a cross-platform ZIP file (which will produce correct file permissions on Mac and Linux after unpacking).
- The CDInspector utility has been greatly improved to be more intuitive to use.
- The recommended approach to creating Prototypes has been greatly simplified to make it even easier to create prototypes of CDs.
- Various improvements have been introduced.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 3.7 (Sep 23, 2009)
- Support for for Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard has been added.
- Support for Mac OS X Leopard for PowerPC CPUs has been greatly improved.
- Various minor improvements and bugfixes have been made.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 3.6 (Sep 2, 2009)
- This release adds full support for PHP 5.2.10 on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
- Zend and IonCube encoders are supported on all platforms for this version of PHP.
- A startup debugging kit has been added to analyze problems with starting a Web site from CD/DVD/USB.
New in Stunnix Advanced Web Server 3.4 (May 13, 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).
- Video tutorials on using CDBuilder have been put online.
- Various minor improvements.