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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 RC2, made available August 12, 2007 (announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/34dq3l).

Community health

There are two very active committers at this time who are very busy with new development, which is good. But weCommunity of developers and users are active on the mailing lists. We've been having some problems getting new releases tested and voted out the door and getting some of our other tasks done (e.g. getting setup to use the mirrors properly) so we still need to work on community development and growth.New contributors are appearing on the mailing list, submitting patches and detailed bug reports. Hopefully, some of these will show sustained interest and we'll see some committer nominationsdifficulties getting 4.0 out the door because committers don't always have time to test each new RC, but on the other hand we are going though the process, fixing bug and the end result will be more solid release.

Dave Johnson will present on Roller and blogs as a web development platform at ApacheCon US (see also http://us.apachecon.com/us2007/program/talk/2023).

Other community related news...

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://freecsstemplaes.org