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UNDER DEVELOPMENT...

Since our last report in August, the Roller project has been making progress on two fronts: testing the 4.0 release and moving ahead with Roller 4.1 development.

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).

We also need to change our downloads page (http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Roller+Downloads) to make use of Apache Mirrors. We need volunteers to help with these tasks.

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

Roller 4.1 development

Roller 4.1 development has been proceeding in the roller_4.1_dev branch. The

Apache Roller 4.0 RC9 available for testing

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) 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 RC2 ready for testing

(no change here since August 2007)

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

Community of developers and users are active on the mailing lists. We've been having some difficulties 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

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