The Aegir team is pleased to announce the second stabilization (beta) release of the Aegir 2.x branch.

Overview

This release mainly targets a few critical bugs that were found in the first beta, namely IP allocation on non-SSL and non-cluster sites which was completely broken and bugs the Debian package. We also introduce a few new features and finally drop support for provisionning Drupal 5 sites completely.

While we are in feature freeze, we have continued to add some UI improvements, since they don't affect the API. We've added some long-standing UI enhancements, and fixed a number of bugs in the views integration and other usability problems.

Known issues

Issue #1931000: Missing drush backend output in frontend log has been fixed, but may require a patch to Drush for the use of hosting-queued.

Our release process is now done by hand instead of automated because we can't use our aegir distribution as core (issue #1991764)

Subdirectory support is still very preliminary and needs those issues to be fixed before completion:

• Nginx support missing (issue #2020091)
• If example.com/foo is created, the example.com virtual will be overwritten and the site inaccessible under that domain (issue #2020089)
• Multi-server support is untested (issue #2020079)
• Code needs to be refactored to the new 2.x API (issue #2020075)

The move to Views has highlighted some additional issues:

• #2025355: view platform' permission broken
• #2005310: No actions available on platforms view

New features

• #600350: provide a nice "history" of ran tasks
• #1988642: Add site by platform
• #1912238: automatically build and upload aegir 2.x packages
• #585830: usability story: "How do I create a client?"
• #1830220: Drop support for Drupal 5 in 2.x
• #1212086: Platforms should be locked by default
• #1403208: Add additional roles
• #1174440: provide a way to show site's DB username/password in the frontend
• #606120: Disabled sites should be class hosting-warning, enabled but problematic sites should be hosting-error

Bug fixes

• #1992254: restarting the mysql server crashes hosting-queued
• #1761932: Explain that updates will require the verify task to run
• #1603702: allows creation of SSL site even if there are no IPs available
• #1130992: User 1 has lost the ability to create platforms
• #1126638: two sites can take the same server IP for SSL
• #1994000: Nginx looking in wrong place for SSL setup information
• #2023621: Unable to allocate IP address for certificate, disabling SSL.
• #1929454: hosting_cron.modules requires hosting_site.module but lacks a dependency.
• #2014589: Views-based package list omits module/theme version
• #2005246: It is possible to disable Hostmaster site via bulk site operations
• #2025533: Mod Rewrite and Apache.conf symlink not created with debian package - beta2