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Roller 5.0 has been in the works for a long time and even before Roller 4.0 was released. The ApacheCon US 2009 presentation What's new in Roller 5.0 tells the story of Roller and Roller 5.0 in some detail and includes details on the new features, which are summarized here. Roller 5.0 is the result of contributions from Sun Microsystems social software efforts, San Jose student developers, a Google summer Summer of code work Code project and volunteer work of ASF Roller committers. Below are the new and notable features.

Media Blogging features

Media file gallery browser with thumbnails
Media file metadata and feeds
Easy to add an image to a blog entry
Easy to upload then blog images

Editing of comments

Simple multi-domain support

One Roller instance serves multiple domains
e.g. my site at rollerweblogger.org serves four domains via the configuration below

1. roller-custom.properties
   weblog.absoluteurl.photophys=http://photophys.com^{Image Added}
   weblog.absoluteurl.alex=http://greenimp.me^{Image Added}
   weblog.absoluteurl.linus=http://linusjohnson.com^{Image Added}

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-1670^{Image Added} http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal+Simple+Multidomain+Support^{Image Added}

Open ID support

Support for OpenID logins via Spring Security
new startup property authentication.openid
Allowed values: disabled, hybrid and only.
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal+OpenID+Support^{Image Added}
https://issues.apache.org/roller/browse/ROL-1733^{Image Added}

OAuth for AtomPub

AtomPub authentication options now:
OAuth
WSSE
Basic

Improvements in code base