Special BOA-1.4S Edition

The Omega8.cc team is happy to release Barracuda/Octopus Special Edition BOA-1.4S. This Edition includes many new features, seven updated platforms and many fixes and improvements introduced in the last seven weeks since previous Edition.

Updated Octopus platforms

• Acquia 7.8.7
• Acquia Commons 2.2
• CiviCRM 3.4.7
• CiviCRM 4.0.7
• Commerce Kickstart 1.0-rc4
• OpenPublic 1.0-beta3 7.8
• Ubercart 2.7 6.22

New features

• Mobile devices detection for mobile-tablet, mobile-smart and mobile-other.
• Mobile devices detection integrated with Redis/Memcached caches.
• Mobile devices detection integrated with Boost cache.
• Mobile devices detection integrated with Speed Booster cache.
• Responsive Images 7.x module support.
• New .barracuda.cnf and .octopus.cnf files for better configuration management.
• Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 is now fully supported.
• Issue #1266912 – Support for Apache Solr Attachments – Tika.
• Issue #1310082 – Disable XML Sitemap for dev automatically.
• Support for fbconnect module.
• Support testing->minimal->standard migrations for D7 out-of-the-box.
• The Speed Booster $key_uri enhanced logic included in the default Nginx config.

Changes

• Nginx upgrade to 1.0.8
• Create mobile cache separate subdirs for Boost by default.
• _MODULES_ON and _MODULES_OFF now forced also for D7 sites.
• Do not force hosting_ignore_default_profiles by default.
• Some o_contrib modules received updates – use _O_CONTRIB_UP=YES to apply them.
• Allow ‘contrib’ subdirectory in the modules path for allowed PHP files.
• Issue #1309996 – Extended support for common modules locations/paths.
• Issue #1305542 – Do not overwrite php.ini and my.cnf if control files exist.
• Add collectd to the auto-healing monitor and automated restart.
• Disable l10n_update module by default to avoid issues when d.o servers are down.
• Updated docs/SOLR.txt to explain how to configure any core to support 7.x.
• Duplicate parts of Nginx config moved to maps in the parent server.tpl.php file.
• Add ‘drush pmi’ to the list of displayed/allowed commands.
• Issue #1243068 – Allow to override in override.global.inc also Redis/Memcached etc.
• Deny known crawlers on the HTTPS proxy level.

Fixes

• The wkhtmltopdf binary should be always executable if exists.
• Issue #1238200 – Use custom _SSH_PORT only in TCP_IN.
• Make sure the keys for MariaDB or Percona are added to avoid broken install.
• Issue #1307664 – Test repo.percona.com and ftp.osuosl.org availability.
• Issue #1262988 – Missing upload_progress_test.conf breaks upgrade for older installs.
• Issue #1281896 – Add some missing video types to mime.types in the Nginx config.
• Do not use path_alias_cache in the Hostmaster site to avoid broken URL aliases.
• Issue #1270724 and #1263124 – really use /tmp directory during ‘drush dl module’.
• Do not break admin/reports/status/rebuild URL in D7.

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

Enjoy!