THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
Roller 5.0 has been in the works for a long time and even before Roller 4.0 was released. Roller 5.0 is the result of contributions from Sun Microsystems social software efforts, San Jose State Univ. student developers, a Google Summer of Code project and volunteer work of ASF Roller project committers and other contributors. 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:
...
The main new feature in Roller 5.0 is "media blogging" which is what we call a set of features that are designed to make it easier for you to upload, manage and blog images, video files and audio files – media files. These new features were added by Tanuja Varkanthe and Ganesh Mathrubootham for a 2008/2009 computer science project project class at San Jose State Univ. With Roller 5, when you upload files you can add title information, tags and Roller will automatically generate a thumbnail for your image. Below you can see the new media file management page, showing a thumbnail for each media file:
...
These new features also make it easy to browse and pick and include a media file from within the weblog entry editor and to present a feed of newly uploaded media files. For more information:
...
This is a small feature that makes it possible for a blog owner to edit the comments left by others on his or her blog for the purposes of cleaning up HTML, spelling errors or profanity in comments. Here's a quick screencast that illustrates how comment editing works:
...
In addition to the new features above the Roller code base has been completely reorganized to follow the Maven directory structure and to use Maven 2 instead of Ant for builds, debugging and creating final release files. All of Roller dependencies were upgraded and most to their most recent releases. See also:
That's all for this summary of Apache Roller 5.0. Please direct comments, questions and other feedback to the Roller Mailing Lists.