2.5.0 "Magic Landings"

This release is aptly named, since many Drupal VM users and contributors have 'landed' in NOLA for DrupalCon, for this last major release in the 2.x series, and are helping plan the next major release (3.0.0) at a BoF!

There are many small new features in this release, but there should be no breaking changes. There are a few new variables available in config.yml, so please read through these release notes when upgrading Drupal VM!

Note: If you haven't updated your configuration since before Drupal VM 2.2.0, be sure to read through the 2.2.0 Release Notes for some important information.

Changed default variables in example.config.yml

• installed_extras now contains two additional (optional, disabled by default) features: blackfire and newrelic
• extra_packages is now empty by default (it used to contain unzip in its default state)
• New variable: nodejs_install_npm_user: "{{ drupalvm_user }}"
• New variable: pre_provision_scripts: []

Improvements

• #573: Support Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial release.
• #587: Add support for New Relic.
• #526: Add Blackfire.io support to Drupal VM.
• #598: Add option for pre-provisioning scripts (similar to post-provisioning scripts).
• #513: Better winnfsd documentation for Windows users.
• #540: Clarify PHP7 requirements.
• #557: Document usage with Arch Linux and other distros with default Python 3 environment.
• #589: Install Apache 2.4 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
• #536: Document the Drupal VM upgrade process.

Bugfixes

• #550: Make unzip a dependency.
• #424: Fix NPM packages installed under root user.
• #562: Fix pip installation under Windows.