DRAFT: 2.0-beta3 release notes
The Aegir team is pleased to announce the third stabilization (beta) release of the Aegir 2.x branch.
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.
We are down to only one active critical bug. If no other critical bugs are discovered during the time it takes us to fix it, we should move on to our first release candidate!
Known issues
Our release process is still done by hand instead of automated because we can't use our aegir distribution as core (issue #1991764)
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.
Subdirectory support is still very preliminary and needs those issues to be fixed before completion:
- Nginx support missing (issue #2020091)
- If
example.com/foois created, theexample.comvirtual 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:
Fixing #2027269: warnings and errors in front-end pre- and post- hooks are ignored for task status required a new Drush commandfile, and thus a 'drush cc drush' if upgrade between an alpha/beta release and HEAD.
The debian package still doesn't properly configure the webserver, a patch has been committed and a workaround is available in issue #2040285.
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
Other issue list - dupe?
- #2045907: Deleted platforms should not have 'Add site' or 'Clients' tabs
- #2035873: Show package 'popularity' on platform package view
- #2036793: Ignore test packages
- #2036283: Make Aegir aware of site-specific packages
- #2031747: Properly control Views access
- #2031491: Aegir-provided roles don't provide intended functionality
- #2044251: drush command '@none provision-save' could not be found
- #1238618: Client form validation allows duplicate client names
- #2044513: Provide an easy link to our issue queues
- #1201174: UID1 username should be configurable
- #1345118: platform access control should be an autocomplete form
- #905326: Cloning a site doesn't handle file path change in the variables table
- #2022813: Expose the 'hosting_site_backups' table to Views.
- #1263264: Install profile added as ordinary module
- #1861898: Remove the hard-coded array(site, platform, server) from hosting_task_menu()
- #2037965: Clean up pause.hosting.inc
- #2038891: Switch from '--invoke' to '--strict=0' for backend calls
- #2031765: Use Actions Permissions to clean up VBO operations
- #2037045: Update _hosting_task_log_class() to match drush _drush_print_log()
- #2025787: Log in to and Go to links should open in a new window/tab by default
- #1599076: Use Vagrant for the testing
- #2027269: warnings and errors in front-end pre- and post- hooks are ignored for task status
- #1830220: Drop support for Drupal 5 in 2.x
- #1975086: tasks sometimes are marked as running when they have in fact crashed
- #2040285: debian package STILL doesn't configure webserver properly
- #2033549: Restore from backup fails : The version of the x module ... has a lower Schema version than the one the site has installed