INCOMPLETE DRAFT

Since our last report in August, November the Roller project has been making progress on two fronts: Roller 4.1 development 0 and Roller 4.0 release candidate testing. And there are two areas where progress is needed: the Roller 3.1. 1 release is stalled at RC6 and there is still some post graduation work to be doneCommunity is healthy, though we have seen some slow-down in mailing list activity. Here are the details.

Apache Roller 4.0 released!

Roller 4.0 is a major new release that upgrades Roller to Jave SE 5, Struts 2, Velocity 1.5 and OpenJPA. This is will be It's the first release that does not require Hibernate or any other LGPL code to run. We It was released the first RC on August 11, 2007 (announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/22wq7y^{Image Removed}) and we've been testing RCs ever since. We're now up to RC9 and are hopeful that RC9 or RC10 will be the finalon December 5, 2007 and announced on the Roller mailing lists and the project blog.

Roller 4.1 development, now in trunk

Roller 4.1 development has been proceeding in the roller_4.1_dev branch. is underway and since the Roller 4.0 release, we have merged the work into the trunk.
The proposal to externalize user management has been implemented, as has the proposal to add a Tag Data API so other apps can get Roller's tag cloud data.

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Community health is good, but activity has slowed a little during Fall of 2007. Developers and users are active on the mailing lists, reporting bugs, submitting patches and seeking support. A talk on Advanced Apache Roller has been accepted for ApacheCon EU 2008.