What's new in the Roller 4.0 release
See the What's New in Roller 4.0 page for a user-oriented overview of what's new in Roller 4.0.
And take note of these important changes:
- Roller now requires Java SE 5 and will no longer run on Java SE 1.4.2.
- Roller themes must be upgraded before they will run on Roller 4.0
Known problems
Below are some known problems with Roller 4.0 (each verified by a Roller committer), that you should be aware of. You can also find bugs reported against 4.0 in our JIRA issue tracker.
- If you want to use Roller's Planet aggregator feature, then you'll need to create a planet-custom.properties file to contain the Planet configuration properties. You must include the very same database configuration properties that you included in your roller-custom.properties file.