Zeus, developer's preview
Pre-release
This is a developer's preview of version 4.0 of Phosphorus Five, known commonly as "Zeus". This is a massive upgrade of the entire system, and its architecture, featuring our of the box, an "app store", which is called the "Bazar".
The Bazar allows you to utilise the core system as a web operating system, allowing your user's to install, whatever apps they want to install, according to their needs. For now, there exists only one such app, which is Sephia Five.
When an app is installed, it will be securely downloaded, and automatically installed, after having verified that the cryptographically signed file matches a trusted PGP key, which by default, is a list of one key, mine that is.
In addition, it features integration with PayPal, allowing you to even charge your users for downloading apps, and allowing you to distribute "proprietary" apps, etc.
Believe me when I say this, this is a humongously important release, with literally tons of new important features, allowing you to even host and create your own P5 AppStore Bazar, easily, by simply exchanging a PGP key fingerprint, and a URL leading to your private Bazar, if you wish.
In addition, the release features many security fixes, and other new and exiting features. For a complete list, please refer to the change log.
Basically, to sum it up, Phosphorus Five is now a fully fledged "Web Operating System", and can be used as a distributed alternative, to all the services you would normally expect some blue-chip Silicon Valley company to deliver to you, and you can host it yourself, and everything is Free Software and Open Source!
For the record, this is a developer's preview release, and should not be considered stable for production (yet), hence it is clearly marked as BETA. Some things might change in the future, before the final (and stable) 4.0/Zeus version is released!
However, I would encourage all the early birds, to start coding, if you see its potential, the way I see it. I will be creating blogs and YouTube videos, demonstrating the system, at my blog over the next couple of hours/days.
Important - All customers that have a valid proprietary license of version 3.x, gets a free license also for the 4.0 track. My reasoning for doing such, is that there have been numerous bugs, some that are security related, and hence, I wouldn't feel right charging old customers for this version.
For developers though, I strongly encourage you to download this release, and try out the new "Bazar" feature, to install "Sephia Five". Basically, the entire process is 100% automated, allowing you to deliver your own apps, in similar ways, with 100% perfect security, due to the wonders of PGP cryptography! Basically, giving you your own personal AppStore, from where you can securely distribute your own apps, to your customers, and/or the world at large! Either for a free, or Gratis.
Read the details about my Bazar here, if you want for me to host your app for you.
Believe me when I say this, this is something you want to see!!