As of today you can download or update to the latest release candidates of Aptana Studio, Jaxer and Cloud. These are major releases for our company: we're updating Studio to a new version, we're releasing an incredible new service, Aptana Cloud, and we've reached our 1.0 milestone of one of the world's most unique offerings, the first Ajax Server, Aptana Jaxer.

Cloud 1.0 RC makes web app deployment and management almost too easy!

Aptana Cloud is a new service from Aptana that is completely integrated into Aptana Studio enabling you to more easily develop, deploy, and manage your web applications. With PHP, Apache, MySQL and Jaxer servers already running on top of an elastic computing infrastructure, Aptana Cloud is the fastest way to deploy and scale your sites and apps. Even before you go live, Cloud's hosted SVN, SFTP and staging servers combined with the remote file editing, database management, and Cloud configuration tools make site development and management a breeze.

You can see all the features or watch this screencast to check out just how seamless Aptana has made deploying and scaling your apps in the "Cloud".

We wanted to push out a RC (Release Candidate) version prior to final release so that you could give it a try. It's absolutely free right now, so we'd love for you to try it out. Let us know what you think. Let us know if we missed anything or if you'd like to see something done differently. You can get started by downloading Aptana Studio 1.2 RC (which comes bundled with Jaxer 1.0 RC as well as our Cloud RC support), or if you are an existing Studio user, follow these update instructions.

Studio 1.2 RC adds new capabilities and improves upon many core features.

Enhancements include: Updated smart synchronization utility and a brand new set of visual database tools plus numerous bug fixes and UI enhancements with performance improvements throughout. A new Aptana ID system provides single-sign for the bug database (ASAP), Aptana Cloud, and soon the discussion forums and more. And there's a new 'My Aptana' start page with quick links to your recent files and core features.

Jaxer 1.0 RC adds and refines more features for server-side JavaScript and Ajax.

Since Jaxer is the world's first Ajax server, this release candidate is a huge milestone. This next-to-final release of Jaxer has some great performance improvements that make it comparable to Ruby on Rails and PHP, plus includes new APIs for JSON and REST style data services.
If you are not yet familiar, Jaxer lets you use your JavaScript and Ajax skills server-side to create entire apps, or optimized presentation tiers that can complement other back-ends. Aptana Studio 1.2 RC includes the Jaxer 1.0 RC.