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Coming soon... Roller 4.0 will be released during Summer 2007

Apache Roller 4.0 is a major new release which includes easier blog theme customization, a much more simple installation/upgrade process, infrastructure improvements and numerous other small fixes. This page provides an overview of the major features and improvements in 4.0.

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Roller's install process has always been a sore point so in 4.0 we've done the work to make installation really easy ROL-1448. Assuming you have 've already setup Java and your Servlet container, all you have to do to setup for Roller is to create one small little settings file and deploy the Roller WAR. There's no need to setup a JNDI data-source or mail-session (unless you want to) and there's no need to create tables. And Plus, there's no need to download Hibernate separately because Roller no longer needs Hibernate.

On startup Roller will test your database connection and give you detailed error messages if it fails, then . Roller will automatically setup tables for you and you'll be up and running in minutes.

Pluggable Comment Validators

Make it possible to plugin multiple comment validators and provide set of "default" validators for blacklist, excess-size, excess-links and for the Akismet spam prevention system.

Infrastructure upgrades

The biggest changes are under the hood. In Roller 4.0 we've upgraded the foundations upon which Roller is built. Roller now requires Java SE 5, now uses Struts2 ROL-1439 instead of Struts1 and now includes a new JPA-based back-end implementation that completely replaces Hibernate ROL-1447.

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There are also numerous small fixes and improvements in Roller 4.0, here are the more significant of them:

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. Get the full list of issues addressed in Roller 4.0 via our JIRA issue tracker.