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@polterguy polterguy released this 22 Aug 07:41
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Welcome to the Zeus release of Phosphorus Five. This is the stable release of version 4.0, and contains tons of new features, in addition to several security fixes and bug fixes.

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Phosphorus Five is now a complete "Home Web Operating System", allowing you to easily setup your own Bazar. The Bazar is almost like Apple's AppStore, or Google's Marketplace, except it's 100% free, open source, and you have perfect control over what gets distributed in it.

This gives you a distribution channel for your software, where you don't have to depend upon the willingness of some other software vendor to have your apps distributed.

Getting started

The installation process has been significantly simplified and updated. Among other things, you no longer need to download any additional components. You can simply start Phosphorus Five itself, and during the server setup, the system will automatically download Micro. When it has been installed, any root account can choose to download apps from its Bazar. Currently though, there's only Sephia Five in its integrated Bazar, however, expect this to change rapidly. Some of the things we're looking to add, is developer tools, allowing you to easily create your own cryptographically signed apps, among other things.

The process of getting started with Phosphorus Five has also been significantly simplified in all other regards. For instance, if you have a default localhost installation of MySQL, you no longer need to edit your web.config, as long as you have an empty root password for your MySQL instance. Which for the record, should be perfectly safe, since a default installation of MySQL won't listen on any ports, accepting requests from outside of the localhost anyway, and hence a password for MySQL is no longer necessary.

Unfortunately the price to pay for this, is that System42 is slightly incompatible with the core, however we're looking to fix this ASAP, and before you read this, this might no longer be true.

For all who purchased a proprietary license in the 3.x period, any 4.x version is included in the price.

Notice, if you're reading this immediately after I have created the release, it might take some minutes before I get to update the Bazar, with signed packages of Micro and Sephia Five's distribution packages, before things works perfectly.

If you wish to install Phosphorus Five on a server, and you don't want to create your own build, you can download the "binaries.zip" file, instead of the source code, which makes for a cleaner installation, without any of its source code.

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