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1.0 release notes (preliminary)

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The Aegir team is very pleased to announce the first official stable release of Aegir - 1.0. While it's been a mostly "open secret" that most of our releases are production ready, this one has been tested through no less than 15 alpha releases, 2 beta releases and 7 release candidates, for a grand total 24 test releases before we deliver this stable version.

Speaking of open secrets, here's a word from our founder, Adrian Russouw:

The 1.0 release marks the end of my association with the Aegir project, as I am officially stepping down as project leader, handing the reigns to Antoine, Miguel and the rest of the team.

It's been public knowledge that I have not been involved with the project in the recent months as I have been in the past, owed primarily to my commitments elsewhere.

I'm incredibly happy and proud of the progress made, even in my absence, and I see my stepping down as the completion of one of the goals I have had for this project from the outset.

The Aegir project was built, from the ground up, to be able to function and grow even after I have moved on to new challenges, and the amazing team of maintainers we have attracted ensures its survival.

I want to thank everybody for their support, and I wish nothing but the best for the project and it's future victories!

1. Major changes in this release

Since our last stable release (0.3 in august 2009, we've done an incredible amount of work. The code size nearly doubled as the development team and user base, although we don't clearly know yet how many installs there are out there.

We can already say that we've been pretty successful at fulfilling our release goals for 0.4 and the 1.0 roadmap. Even though we're missing bits and pieces in DNS and multi-server support is not as robust as we'd like it to be, there's still space to do improvements and bugfixes in the 1.x branch, and we'll also start on the 2.0 roadmap once that release is out the door.

  • Multi-server support
    • External and multiple DB support
    • External and multiple webserver support
    • Webserver cluster support
    • Server and services abstractions
  • DNS
    • Master zones created on the fly with sites
    • Manual modification allow throught the provision-zone command
    • Slave servers
    • Support for Bind and dnsmasq
  • SSL support
    • multi-domain/wildcard support
    • can be enabled or required
  • Migration improvements
    • Batch migrations
    • Site migration fixes your body and teaser for sites/community.aegirproject.org/ changes
    • No mode rebuilding the whole node_access table
    • Cloning
    • Site rename support
    • Interprofile migration
    • Ignoring site-specific modules so that mass-migrates are easier
  • Improved task management
    • no more than X tasks at a time
    • tasks revisions and timing
    • canceling tasks
    • possibility of queuing tasks from the backend
  • Improved platform management
    • Automated platform creation through Drush make file or even a URL
    • access control and locking
    • deletion
    • platforms are stored in ~/platforms
  • Site management improvements
    • Named backups
    • Password resets
    • Intersite security (storing passwords outside of settings.php AKA cloaking)
    • stopped hardcoding page cache
    • bulk operations
    • Views support
    • local.settings.php overrides
    • backup file size
    • .htaccess customization
    • Clean database names and users (instead of site_X)
  • Other improvements
  • Install and upgrade process improvements
    • Aegir can upgrade and install itself, no need to go through the frontend wizards in install.php or upgrade.php
    • Remote DB server support for installs and upgrades
    • Debian packages - apt-get install aegir
    • The Aegir install went from being a known nightmare to a total breeze, with 46 seconds to 5 minutes install times with the debian packages and 15 minutes installs on manual installs (for unsupported platforms)
  • Support for [7 operating systems](/node/582] and counting, we added:
    • Solaris support
    • CentOS support
    • Ubuntu support
    • Gentoo support
    • FreeBSD support
    • ... and that's just the confirmed installation reports, if it's UNIX, it probably can run Aegir!
  • Project management
    • Migrated to our own git repositories
    • ... then migrated back to Drupal.org when they switched to git
    • We have now our own OpenAtrium site for the community to participate in
    • A [/handbook] has been created and expanded to provide solid, collaborative documentation for the project, that anybody can contribute to (it's a wiki!)
    • We now have clear maintainers for different sections of the code, with 4 maintainers and counting
  • An explosion of third party modules
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2. API changes

The API changes since 0.3 are too numerous to list here. However, we are now committed to maintain the whole 1.x series with a stable API. There will be no change in the existing API, although we may add in some stuff if it is really necessary.

All future API changes between 1.x and 2.x will be clearly defined so that third party module can be supported.

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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 before 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!

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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 :)

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5. New features

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6. Bugfixes

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7. Known issues

Being really opened about our project, we have never hidden the fact that some things, some times, do not work in Aegir. Our issue trackers are public, and we've made it a point of honor to not only document clearly what is wrong in our releases when we find out about it, but also to reroll new releases when we fix it.

That being said, 1.0 suffers from a number of significant issues and design flaws. This is the list of all issues marked "major" in the queue right now. Some of those issues can be fixed within the 1.x, some can only be fixed by refactoring so they will be fixed in 2.x.

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