We just announced the 0.3 release of the Aegir Hosting System. During this release we chose a bit of a different goal than the previous releases, in that our primary and only objective was to produce a well tested and stable port of our 0.2 feature set to Drupal 6.

The result of this effort has been that we have managed to have a remarkably stable and well tested code base that has been suitable for production use throughout most of the release cycle, and therefore more people than ever before have felt comfortable employing this new release for critical systems. The amount of additional testing, documentation and minor bug fixes that this release has seen has resulted in what is undoubtedly our finest release yet.

We have also laid a very stable foundation for our 0.4 release, which will focus on embracing the distributed nature of our design and taking Aegir to the cloud!

I’d like to thank the other contributors to this release, especially Jonhattan who, along with @mig5ter, have been absolute demons on the issue queues catching a lot of issues that would have fallen through the cracks otherwise, and Steve Parks who contributed his time to refactor our existing online documentation.

We were incredibly lucky in attracting the contributions of mig5, whose frequent and insightful patches in the issue queue has left us with no other option but to add him to the core committer team. With this addition we have core committers in Canada, South Africa, and Australia, which theoretically means that we have someone with authority in the project available 24 hours per day =)

For more information about the release, check out the Aegir 0.3 release notes.