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The Aegir team is pleased to announce the first preview release (alpha) of the Aegir 2.x branch. (add more blabla here)

Those release notes detail the changes since the 2.x branch was first created, all the way back two years ago, when 1.0 was released. Of course, we are not detailing all the changes made in the 1.x series that are all part of the 2.x, but only the changes specific to the 2.x release.

1. Major changes

The 2.x series is the result of almost 2 years of development. We have been pretty busy with the maintenance of the 1.x branch, so development has been sometimes intermittent, and it is not over! This release is only a first of a series of alpha releases that are tailored to make upcoming changes available to a wider audience than people ready to install from git. Still, this first alpha already packs a lot of changes.

• (Symphony code refactor)
• SSL improvements:
  • IP allocation was moved to the frontend to the frontend
  • SSL certificate generation now has saner defaults (e.g. 2048bits)
  • better error handling
• Drush 5 support
  • includes better support for archive-dump command
  • means we also drop the dependency on drush make 2.3, now included in Drush 5
• Debian package improvements
  • now a "native" debian package
  • Nginx support in the Debian package
  • drop explicit dependency on Postfix
• Nginx improvements:
  • fixed support for nginx 1.3 and newer
  • better defaults for caching
• hosting-queue-runner merged into core and renamed to hosting-queued, enabled by default

2. Major API changes

Those changes are, as usual, more explicitly documented in the upgrade path documentation.

• hosting-task now needs a --force argument to run a non-queued task
• functions that were deprecated in 1.x are now removed
• the email and client_email database fields are now removed from client and site node types
• numerous changes to the IP allocation and SSL management code

3. Installing and upgrading

The canonical source of installation documentation is on the community site at:

http://community.aegirproject.org/installing

In a similar fashion, the upgrade documentation is:

http://community.aegirproject.org/upgrading

Within those sections you'll find step-by-step instructions for performing both manual and automatic upgrade processes.

It is still imperative that you read the the upgrade path and version-specific information and follow all version-specific upgrade instructions before trying to run the upgrade script or manual upgrade. This especially applies to users upgrading from releases prior to 0.4-alpha8, including 0.3.

For users coming from the 0.4 betas or recent rc releases, there are unlikely to be any version-specific manual steps required to upgrade, but you should make a habit of reading them anyway just to make sure. No-one likes a nasty surprise!

4. Need help?

If you struggle to install or upgrade your Aegir system, you have a number of options available to you for getting help.

Consult this page for more information: http://community.aegirproject.org/help

Thanks to our awesome community for their help, support and encouragement as always! Enjoy the new release :)

5. Features and improvements

• #1830994: Login directly via 'login' link
• #1853588: Sort Install profiles on Site add form
• #709862: Allow drush modules to add to apache vhost config template
• #1861896: Make $type argument of function hosting_available_tasks() optional.
• #1843198: Add Content top and bottom to Eldir.
• #1826074: Add tests to ensure site directories are migrated
• #1464220: Support alternative 'Hostmaster' profiles
• #610040: Add X links on listing pages
• #710834: notify clients on site migrations
• #1260066: Allow use of the working copy option when creating a platform
• #1047992: exportable backups
• #1189556: Pull the queue runner into Aegir 2
• #1408410: Add microcaching to Nginx config by default
• #1138104: Tiny module to automatically fill in platform publish path based on title

6. Bugfixes

• #1735174: server verification fails after configuration on pack slave servers
• #1798252: reload hosting-queued on upgrade
• #1898260: platform form should allow editiong if platform is not verified
• #1435098: Client name validate sometimes gives erroneous results
• #1591720: Illegal choice when selecting sites to verify
• #1587232: All radios labels in forms use incorrect vertical-align property value (middle)
• #1218130: checking "Hide platforms with non-default profiles" breaks D7's minimal and standard profiles
• #1227954: hosting_quota lacks a feature.module_name.inc
• #528064: h2 bigger than h1 in content
• #460974: improve queue admin form
• #1855486: Patch to Remove some Notices
• #1881868: SA-CONTRIB-2012-080 hasn't been applied to 6.x-2.x
• #1873384: 'Silence warning' commit broke 6.x-2.x
• #1843078: aegir 2.x debian packages fail to install
• #1829430: drush hosting-tasks broken
• #1146014: A user can see sites that don't have a client associated.
• #1256508: path aliases for deleted sites are not deleted
• #1249892: Checkboxes on provision page not aligned
• #941870: failure to copy SSL certificates should abort tasks
• #1334950: permissions on /var/aegir/config/server_NAME/SERVICE prevents access
• #1471928: provision-save: Unknown options: --context_type, --platform, --server, --db_server, --profile, --client_name, --aliases
• #1751006: Make is called incorrectly
• #1750974: Unable to pass working-copy or backend-only to hostmaster install
• #1204990: Drop old database when re-deploying a site.
• #1734500: Can't run tests with Drush 4.6
• #1433406: Make hosting (specifically hosting-dispatch) work with Drush 5
• #1690472: Declaration of Provision_Service_null::__call() should be compatible with that of Provision_Service::__call() null.php:27
• #1266484: Cannot verify Drupal 7.8 with PHP 5.2
• #1612044: upgrade from 1.7 to 2.x fails because of drush 5 command file cache
• #1358768: 6.x-2.x generates multiple Undefined property errors on hostmaster install

7. New contrib modules

To be completed - not sure this belongs, as those are not necessarily compatible with 2.x...

• hosting_site_backup_manager http://drupal.org/project/hosting_site_git http://drupal.org/project/hosting_notifications/