Releases
Per-release notes for every BOA version: what each release changes for your sites and your server, the operator-facing notes, and links to the code and full changelog.
Every BOA release, newest first — what it changes for your sites and your server, the operator-facing notes, and links to the code. These pages are the verbose, technical record; the plain-English announcements live on omega8.cc/news.
Each release is also summarised in the full changelog, and the release process itself — branches, editions, serials and the SKYNET auto-update pipeline — is documented under Developing in the release model chapter.
BOA-5.88.855 — Kraken Edition
BOA-5.88.855 Kraken Edition: off-site backups restorable on your own workstation, a one-click Migration source task, a self-healing task queue, exact-name database grants with zero residual access, and a root layer that never follows a tenant-planted symlink.
BOA-5.88.844 — Certainty Edition
BOA-5.88.844 Certainty Edition: every backup route that does not name a mode now produces a restorable archive with the pre-restore safety copy included, imports refuse data the store cannot prove, migrations and failovers report only what they can show evidence for, and installs are interlocked against the fleet's own housekeeping.
BOA-5.88.833 — Candour Edition
BOA-5.88.833 Candour Edition: panel backups that hold exactly what their label says with a Restore that brings it all back, single-email installs completing with a welcome email true for the box, XDR9000 permanent attack and health history on every Ægir server, and distributed scrapers' cold fetches answered before PHP.
BOA-5.88.822 — Clarity Edition
BOA-5.88.822 Clarity Edition: 35 hidden control-file switches become named barracuda.cnf settings, PHP security releases installing in moments as prebuilt packages, a gated Excalibur kernel update, Backdrop packaged like the Drupal cores, and self-healing that confirms before it acts.
BOA-5.88.811 — Cadence Edition
BOA-5.88.811 Cadence Edition release notes: leftover management for interrupted migrate/clone/restore tasks, prebuilt stack packages reaching Devuan Excalibur, Backdrop CMS refinements, and 40 commits since 5.88.8.
BOA-5.88.8 — Continuity Edition
BOA-5.88.8 Continuity Edition release notes: Backdrop CMS support, the Drupal 6 → 7 → Backdrop upgrade chain, classic Ægir imports, and 422 commits since 5.10.3.
BOA-5.10.3 — Watchtower Edition
BOA-5.10.3 PRO/LTS release notes: a hardened abuse guard, self-healing monitors, and Drupal 8+ reliability fixes.
BOA-5.10.1 — AI Policy Edition
BOA-5.10.1 PRO/LTS release notes: per-class AI bot policy, edge hardening, and refreshed distributions.
BOA-5.9.5 — Security Audit
BOA-5.9.5 PRO/LTS release notes: the security audit and hardened foundations release.
BOA-5.9.3 — Active Threat Response
BOA-5.9.3 PRO/LTS release notes: active threat response and deep hardening.
BOA-5.9.1 — HTTP/3 and KTLS
BOA-5.9.1 PRO/LTS release notes: HTTP/3 and kernel TLS bring the fast lane to HTTPS.
BOA-5.8.5 — Devuan Excalibur and PHP 8.5
BOA-5.8.5 PRO/LTS release notes: Devuan Excalibur, PHP 8.5, and 1092 commits since BOA-5.7.12.
BOA-5.7.11 — Drupal 11 with Ægir 3
BOA-5.7.11 PRO release notes: full Drupal 11 support integrated with Ægir 3.
BOA-5.6.0 — New Backup System
BOA-5.6.0 PRO release notes: a new backup system, fresh tools, and over 750 updates since BOA-5.5.0.