BOA-2.0.1 Edition

The Omega8.cc team is happy to release Barracuda/Octopus Edition BOA-2.0.1. This Edition includes a few important new features, three new platforms, twelve updated platforms and many fixes and improvements introduced in the last nine weeks since previous Edition.

New Octopus platforms

• ELMS 1.0-alpha5
• Open Deals 1.0-alpha4
• Open Outreach 1.0-beta6

Updated Octopus platforms

• Acquia 7.10.10
• Acquia Commons 2.3
• CiviCRM 3.4.8
• CiviCRM 4.0.8
• Commerce Kickstart 1.0-rc7
• Drupal 7.10
• Managing News 1.2.1
• NodeStream 1.1
• Open Atrium 1.1.1
• OpenChurch 1.22-a
• OpenScholar 2.0-beta13
• ProsePoint 0.41

New features

• Speed Booster Purge Server for all Drupal 6.x based platforms with automatically configured support for all devices caching.
• Enhanced Pressflow core for all bundled 6.22 based platforms, applied automatically also to already installed platforms: https://github.com/omega8cc/pressflow6
• Added access to the “clients” directory with shortcuts/symlinks to all hosted sites per Aegir “client”.

New o_contrib modules

• ESI for Nginx SSI – http://drupal.org/sandbox/mikeytown2/1328648
• Purge for Speed Booster – http://drupal.org/project/purge
• Expire for Speed Booster – http://drupal.org/project/expire

Changes

• Nginx upgrade to 1.0.11
• MariaDB upgrade to 5.2.10
• Percona upgrade to 5.5.18
• Chive upgrade to 1.0.1
• Pure-FTPd upgrade to 1.0.35
• The syslog module is no longer enabled by default and added to the list of automatically disabled modules.

Fixes

• Mobile devices detection and caching improved.
• Many fixes and enhancements for Speed Booster caching logic.
• Many fixes and enhancements for Boost caching logic.
• More reliable Nginx auto-healing.
• Broken symlinks in the “clients” directory are now purged daily.
• The preg_match for dev should check for dev. and devel. only.
• Issue #1366564 – Use instance specific .octopus.cnf files.
• Issue #1262988 – Use reliable test for upload progress availability.
• Issue #1350028 – Make sure that all BOA pid files are removed on reboot.
• Issue #1348906 – BOND script outdated _INSTALLER_VERSION variable fixed.
• Issue #1321428 – Make sure that _SSH_PORT is written in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

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

Enjoy!