Custom php.ini
Splashpage URL now permit protected!!!
- Previously accessing https://lampXXX.hosting.cornell.edu:XXXX/ would allow any valid NetID. This is now protected by the permit associated with the instance.
"runas"
- Better isolation of LAMP 2.1 instances for security purposes
php: allow_url_fopen: now default to off
perl: updated to 5.16.2, no longer includes libwww
- Perl is available, but not well supported
"select software"
- disable features that are not needed (i.e. only run PHP/Python etc...)

Software	LAMP 2.0	LAMP 2.1
PHP	5.3.8	5.3.21
Python	2.7.2	2.7.3
Ruby	1.8.7p358	1.8.7p371
Perl	5.12.1	5.16.2
MySQL	5.5.15	5.5.29
OpenSSL	0.9.8.r	1.0.0k
Krb5	1.6.3	1.9.4
freetds	0.8.2	0.91
sqlite	3.7.7.1	3.7.10
httpd	2.2.21	2.2.23
instantclient	11.1.0.7	11.2
nodejs (not meant to be run as a service/supports RoR)	0.4.11	0.8.18
libxml2	2.7.7	2.7.8
libxslt	1.1.25	1.1.26
openldap	2.4.23	2.4.33

Software switched to vendor (RedHat): libjpeg, libpng, libgd, icu, mhash, mcrypt, freetds, freetype

Python 2.7.2
mod_wsg 3.3
Now with virtualenv support, mssql support, imaging support, bz2 support, and sqlite support
virtualenv web interface (Experimental)

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