The Aegir team is is pleased to announce the fifth release candidate for the upcoming Aegir 2.0 release!

This release ships a ton of bugfixes we have found in RC4. We also finalised subdirectory support which, while it still has some issues, is now actually working correctly, even on multiple servers. The IP allocation code for SSL on multiple servers was also fixed, making this probably the most solid multi-server Aegir release ever. We also did some API cleanups that seemed necessary before the final 2.0 release.

Finally, we should also mentionned that the install process was significantly sped up thanks to the use of Drupal.org distributions to ship a single tarball for the hostmaster platform instead of using a makefile to build it from its parts all the times. During out tests, the platform make step went from 60 seconds to 1.5 seconds, an amazing improvement!

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, with 2.x-specific instructions outlined in bold.

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. You should be able to upgrade to 2.x releases from any release in the 1.x series, but it's better to upgrade to the latest 1.x release first.

Known issues

Those are the critical bugs that were found in this release that you may encounter and should watch out for.

There was a problem in the Debian package, the original uploads were missing some critical files (subdir support and some makefiles). This was fixed in an intermediate package named 2.0~rc5.1.
If /var/aegir is a symlink, it will be destroyed, see issue #2118857 for a workaround.
hosting-queued doesn't get properly re-enabled on upgrades, see #2114675 for a workaround.
Some upgrades fail with mysterious redirection failures, see #2118061 for details.
Some upgrades may loop over one of the update_N() functions, see #2118917 for details and workaround.
Upgrading through Debian packages removes the aegir.conf Apache configuration file, dropping all sites, during the upgrade, see #2121263.
Ubuntu sausy has some changes in apache config wich breaks Aegir #2155705

Detailed list of changes

API CHANGES

remove version pinning in hostmaster, our release process now again needs to modify only one makefile (#2002114)
#1986928: Provide 2.x upgrade guidance for services
#2099889: More hosting_features checks in _drush_load hooks?
#1882708: Unused 'release_id' field in 'hosting_platform'
#2012508: hosting_context_name returns '@' if node not found
#1283738: Add new hook provision_drupal_create_directories in _provision_drupal_create_directories
the package name changed (for example) from aegir-hostmaster2 to aegir2-hostmaster, compatibility shims are available for people having installed aegir2 before, but they will be dropped in 2.0, so make sure you upgrade to this release before upgrading to aegir 2.0

NEW FEATURES

aegir install time reduced by about 60 seconds (on a cable uplink) by using Drupal.org distributions (#2002114)
#2001964: Upgrade Views Bulk Operations 6.x-1.16
#2099057: Allow _provision_drupal_create_directories to skip chmod
#2100251: Implement post-enable hook for 'hosting_*' modules
#2020075: Refactor subdirs to use proper Config class(es)
#2020079: Multi-server subdirectory support
#2096629: hook_provision_drupal_create_directories_alter by ref
#2086009: Logo Cannot be changed / disabled
#2069387: Support nonstandard ports on hostmaster-install command
#2074681: Ports are hardcoded in hostmaster.profile
#2103173: Provide an example of saving data to a site context

2.0-rc5 release notes