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What's new in the Roller 4.0 release

See the What's New in Roller 4.0 page for a user-oriented overview of what's new in Roller 4.0.

And take note of these important changes:

  • Roller now requires Java SE 5 and will no longer run on Java SE 1.4.2.
  • Roller themes must be upgraded before they will run on Roller 4.0
    • Themes must now include a theme.xml definition file
    • See Dave Johnson's "How to create a Roller 4.0 theme" posts (part1 and part2) for more information.

Known problems

Below are some known problems with Roller 4.0 (each verified by a Roller committer), that you should be aware of. You can also find bugs reported against 4.0 in our JIRA issue tracker.

  • If you want to use Roller's Planet aggregator feature, then you'll need to create a planet-custom.properties file to contain the Planet configuration properties. You must include the very same database configuration properties that you included in your roller-custom.properties file.