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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/22wq7yImage 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 final. on December 5, 2007 and announced on the Roller mailing lists and the project blog.

We've made enough bug fixes in the Roller 4.0 branch that it's probably time to start thinking about a bug 4.0.1 bug fix release. Here's the list of issues fixed for 4.0.1

Roller 4.1 development, now in trunk

Roller 4.1 development has been proceeding in the roller_4.1_dev branchis 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.

Apache Roller 3.1 completed, 3.1.1 RC6 ready for testing

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We shipped 3.1 on April 23, 2007. A number of significant problems (including an XSS bug) were found and fixed. We are now testing a fix release known as 3.1.1 RC6, made available October 4, 2007 (announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/ynmrtjImage Removed).

Some post graduation work still TBD

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Apache Roller graduated back in March and announced graduation and the Apache Roller 3.1 release on April 23, 2007. However, we've still got some work to do. We're still waiting for our JIRA instance to be setup (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-813Image Removed). Thanks to Vadim Gritsenko we now have a statistics page for Roller

Community health

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.