Apache Roller 5.0 Release

Abstract

Roller 5.0 is a major new release of Roller that includes new features for media blogging, OpenID support, more plugin points and support for distributed search.

Features to be included

Proposed new features

• Proposal - Clusterable Search Via Solr - new proposal seeking feedback
• Proposal Media Blogging Support - new proposal seeing feedback
• Proposal Externalize User And Permissions Management - (DONE! in trunk and ready for testing) make it possible to externalize user and permissions management so that Roller can pull user profile and permissions information from a separate user management system.
• Proposal Tag Data API - (DONE! in trunk and ready for testing) add a simple web RESTful web services interface that returns statistic about tag usage in XML using Atom protocol categories format (XML).
• Proposal OpenSearch - (DONE! in trunk and ready for testing) provide a search API for Roller by adding 1) an OpenSearch descriptor support and b) OpenSearch tags in our search feeds.

Proposals to be written

• Facility to automatically install Roller plugins
• Update all dependencies (especially OpenJPA)

Issues to be addressed

• See JIRA roadmap for list of bug fixes to be included in this release

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