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UNDER DEVELOPMENT...

Since our last report in August, the Roller project has been making progress on two fronts: Roller 4.1 development 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 done.

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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 the first release that does not require Hibernate or any other LGPL code to run. We 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 final.

Apache Roller 3.1 completed, 3.1.1

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RC6 ready for testing

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 RC2RC6, made available August 12October 4, 2007 (announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/34dq3l^{Image Removed}ynmrtj).

Some post graduation work still TBD

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-813^{Image Removed}).

Thanks to Vadim Gritsenko we now have a statistics page for Roller

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Other community related news...

Dave Johnson will present on Roller and blogs as a web development platform at ApacheCon US.

• The US Government recently launched a blog called GovGab http://govgab.com. It's powered by five employees of the Office of Citizen Services and Communications and Apache Roller 3.1. The GovGab folks have been helping out with the (still ongoing) Roller 3.1.1 release by reporting bugs and suggesting fixes.
• Popular travel guide publisher Lonely Planet launched its blog site http://www.lonelyplanet.com/blogs last week and it's powered by Roller.
• Gene Strokine has create a new site devoted to supporting nice looking Roller themes, called http://rollerthemes.com. Currently, most themes there are ports of themes available at http://

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• freecsstemplates.org
• Matt Raible presented a talk on Roller, Acegi Security and Single Sign-on at the Colorado Software Summit
• Dave Johnson will present on Roller and blogs as a web development platform at ApacheCon US.