XAMPP is designed to be easy to install rather than production ready, thus users of XAMPP are advised to lock it down before deploying it on a production or public server.
We are planning to redesign the demo pages for one of the next releases of XAMPP. Our demo pages are six years old by now and are screaming for an update.
To make sure that we are not just following our personal preferences, we are now looking for volunteers for our usability survey.
Thank you for taking part and special thanks to Karin Kunkel, Sonja Uhl and Constanze Weiland, who are carrying out this survey for us.
It's finished. After the usual two-week beta period, we can announce the new "final" XAMPP version available for public download.
In this version we updated: Apache (2.2.9), MySQL (5.0.51b), PHP (5.2.6), phpMyAdmin (2.11.7), mod_perl (2.0.4), OpenSSL (0.9.8h), and eAccelerator (0.9.5.3).
Get the downloads and more details on the specific platforms XAMPP project page.