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Revision of 1.0-rc6 release notes from Fri, 04/08/2011 - 19:30

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1.0-rc6 release notes

Updated by anarcat on 04/08/2011 - 19:30
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The Aegir team is very pleased to announce the sixth release candidate of Aegir 1.0, aka "are we there yet?"

This is yet another hotfix release to fix an issue in the upgrade.sh script and Drupal 7 support.

Installing and upgrading

The canonical source of installation documentation has moved from the usual INSTALL.txt to the community site at:

http://community.aegirproject.org/installing

In a similar fashion, the upgrade documentation has now been moved to the community site at

http://community.aegirproject.org/upgrading

Within those sections you'll find step-by-step instructions for performing both manual and automatic upgrade processes. You can download the upgrade.sh.txt script from http://community.aegirproject.org/node/431.

It is still imperative that you read the the Upgrade Guide (http://community.aegirproject.org/upgrading) and follow all version-specific upgrade instructions located at the end of the document before trying to run the upgrade script. This especially applies to users upgrading from before 0.4-alpha8, including 0.3.

For users coming from the 0.4 betas or rc1/2, there are unlikely to be any version-specific manual steps required to upgrade to 1.0-rc4, but you should make a habit of reading them anyway just to make sure. No-one likes a nasty surprise!

The upgrade.sh script attempts to backup the existing backend components, download new versions, and then run the hostmaster-migrate command. It assumes you are upgrading from the previous release (hostmaster-6.x-1.0-rc3). If you are not, you may have to edit the script to change the OLD_DRUPAL_DIR variable.

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 :)

New features

We have now specific maintainers for specific project areas.

A documentation spree has been started by the newly documentation team and merged in this release, so the API documentation should be more complete. In particular, we have deprecated hosting_queues_get_arguments() and hook_provision_args() that weren't used anywhere.

Bugfixes

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