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This month the Roller project is We made our graduation announcement and released Apache Roller 3.1, but this month we're still working on multiple upcoming releases and post-graduation work. The community is active and getting along well and we accepted a patch from a new contributor. Here are the details.

Graduation announcement and Roller 3.1 release

We postponed out our graduation announcement until the Roller 3.1 release was ready and made a simultaneous 3.1 and graduation announcement just in time for ApacheCon EU and JavaOne 2007. Here's the announcement:

Apache Roller project announces graduation and new Apache Roller 3.1 release

Also here: http://tinyurl.com/2ns42y

Upcoming Releases: Roller 4.0

The original plan for Roller 4.0 was to make "infrastructure" changes including upgrades to Java SE 5, new non-Hibernate back-end, Struts 2Struts2, Velocity 1.5 and XMLRPC 3.0. Now the plans are expanding to include some more features to be implemented by Sun and IBM. At this point , full Struts2 migration (and possible a new installer).

Last month we reported that consensus seems to point to a May release for 4.0.While the rest of the 4.0 work taking place in the trunk, the , because we still have work to do on testing our new back-end work is happing in a separate branch and kept in sync on at least a weekly basis. We still have not made the final decision about which persistence technology to use. The JPA implementation is passing 100% of unit test. It's still possible that IBM will contribute an iBatis implementation in time for 4.0.and because we've decided to do a complete Struts2 migration instead of simply migrating a couple of key pages. Allen Gilliland has made tremendous progress on the Struts2 works and has written an excellent migration guide to help others pitch in.

http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Struts2+Migration

Upcoming bug fix release: Roller 3.1.1

A number of serious but easy to fix bugs have been found in the Roller 3.1 release, so we've proposed a Roller 3.1.1 release with a first RC before the end of May 2007.

http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal+Roller+3.1.1+Release

Upcoming XSS security fix releases: Roller 2.3.1 and 3.0.1

A number of XSS security vulnerabilities were reported in Roller 2.3 and 3.0. We worked with the reporter to detail and fix the problems and prepared "patch" releases 2.3.1 and 3.0.1. We have release candidates ready for those releases, but again, we're still having problems finding time to test them. We're considering announcing these release candidates more widely (on blogs, etc.) to encourage more testing and feedback.

Post graduation work

Still need to move the JIRA issue tracker over to Apache infrastructure.

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The community is getting along fine with lots of discussion on the topic of new features. Mailing list traffic has seems to have picked up a bit since the graduation/Roller 3.1 announcement. Dave Johnson spoke at ApacheCon EU 2007 on Roller and blogs as a web development platform and submitted several Roller related talks for ApacheCon US 2007 (November).