1.0-boa-T-8.8 release

The Omega8.cc team is happy to release Barracuda/Octopus Edition 1.0-boa-T-8.8. This Edition includes many new features, fixes and improvements introduced in the last six weeks since previous Edition.

New Octopus platforms

• Drupal 7.4
• CiviCRM 3.4.4
• CiviCRM 4.0.4
• Videola 1.0-alpha1

Updated Octopus platforms

• OpenPublic 1.0-beta1 7.4
• Drupal Commerce 1.0-beta4
• Acquia Commons 1.7
• Acquia 7.4.4
• OpenScholar 2.0-beta11
• Conference 1.0-beta1

New features

• Speed Booster can be disabled per site or per platform.
• Redis/Memcached can be disabled per site or per platform.
• Redis/Memcached chained cache enabled also for anonymous visitors.
• Support for private_upload module added.
• Support for static sites/domain/files/robots.txt file per site #1173954.
• New _HTTP_WILDCARD Barracuda option for Nginx configuration #1152316.
• New _XTRAS_LIST Barracuda option to define extras to be used.
• Scripts to add extra ftp or lshell standard or lshell master users.
• New _PLATFORMS_LIST Octopus option to configure the list of platforms.
• You can migrate sites between some install profiles by default:
  Drupal/Pressflow -> Acquia
  Acquia -> Drupal/Pressflow
  Acquia -> CiviCRM 3
  Cocomore/CDC/DrupalCenter -> Pressflow
• New _O_CONTRIB_UP Octopus option to upgrade last two contrib sets.

Changes

• Migration from commercedev to commerce_kickstart profile.
• More system info stored in BOA logs to help with debugging.
• Nginx config – deny access to /hosting/c/server_master.
• Better how-to in the override.global.inc template.
• Chive upgrade to 0.4.2.
• Nginx upgrade to 1.0.4.

Fixes

• OpenPublic password policy issue fixed on site install.
• OpenScholar missing libraries issue fixed.
• Issue #1213094 – FServer platform missing module fixed.
• Mollom problem when running via (SSL) proxy fixed.
• Issue #1209150 – always use _MY_OWNIP when defined.
• Issue #1208386 – fix for broken csf configuration template.
• Boost cache write permissions after site migration fixed.
• Nginx config – better support for CiviCRM.
• Issue #1198572 – do not run SMTP check if _SMTP_RELAY_HOST is set.
• Forced PHP-FPM rebuild on MariaDB 5.2.7 upgrade.
• Issue #1196006 – fixed Nginx X-Accel-Redirect support.
• Security Issue #1197172 – bypass access restrictions to protected files fixed.
• Issue #1182680 – fixed support for backup_migrate module.
• Issue #1182582 – fixed search paths for node.js, image.jpg etc.
• Critical Issue #1183500 #1182660 – fall back to the wildcard * in Nginx.
• Issue #962188 – Nginx version check in vhost.tpl.php now works.
• Issue #1170498 – Extra config variable was missing in Nginx config templates.
• Percona upgrade path fixed.
• Broken dev version of the backup_migrate module replaced with stable.
• Use correct platforms versions numbers in the ftp symlinks.

You can read full changelog as always at: http://bit.ly/newboa

Enjoy!