hostmaster 6.x-0.2-beta1

Hostmaster is a component of the Aegir hosting system.

Ægir is a set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by providing you with a simple Drupal based hosting front end for your entire network of sites. To deploy a new site you simply have to create a new Site node. To backup or upgrade sites, you simply manage your site nodes as you would any other node.

This release marks the first effort to port the Aegir frontend to Drupal 6. This version has known bugs which keep it from being released in full along with the Drupal 5 version. We still wish to make this release available to speed up testing and make sure we don't lag too much between the two versions.

So this release focuses on porting the frontend to Drupal 6. Amongst other thing, this means integration with the Drupal 6 install profile wizard API, which allows us to remove a lot of crud and hacks from the hosting module.

Once the Drupal 6 version is stable and released, the Drupal 5 branch will stopped being maintained and everyone will be encouraged to migrated over to the new platform. Note that the Provision backend is not affected by this release, which concerns only the frontend (Hostmaster, Hosting and Eldir).