The Aegir Project has just launched its new home - aegirproject.org. Right now this site is just a placeholder, but we’d like to turn this space into a resource for documentation, release announcements, and community discussion. We’d love to hear about your ideas for what you would like to see on the site - please send ideas to @aegirproject.

Development on Aegir has been advancing quickly this summer. Earlier this month we put out the Aegir 0.4 Alpha 9 release, which added features like multi-server support, a vastly simplified installation, and support for sites encrypted with SSL to the system, and we just announced the 0.4 Alpha 12 release, which contains bug fixes and usability improvements. The last major feature missing before we can consider Aegir 0.4 feature complete and start the beta cycle is the ability to host DNS for all your sites. This is a requirement to allow us to move sites between servers successfully.

I’ll be presenting on Aegir at DrupalCon Copenhagen tomorrow, August 26th, at 1:30 pm in the Trellon Room with Antoine Beaupré. We’ll walk through Aegir and show off the new features that have been added over the last year, especially some of the multi-server magic like how to use Aegir to add additional web and database servers and migrate and clone sites between several servers. We’ll also talk about our future plans for the project and share best practices around how to lessen the impact of the development -> staging -> production workflow problem by making use of tools such as Drush make and Features.

For those who have already consumed the Aegir koolaid (or beer, since Aegir, the Norse god of the ocean, is known for his love of beer), we will have a BoF at 4:00 pm tomorrow and after that, meet in the lobby to head out to our traditional Aegir dinner. This is always a great time to hang out in person and get to know the team better.