Project Roller

Dave Johnson: Matt was one of the earliest users and supporters of Roller. He's the director of technology at the Javalobby and along with Rick Ross he helped grow the Roller community by offering free Roller-based blogs at JRoller.com. Matt, Rick and I spent many hours on instant messenger, on the phone and at Javalobby headquarters (here in Cary, NC) debugging Roller's early performance problems. Since then, he's played an active role in the Roller dev list and I've continued to work with him on Roller issues via instant messenger.

Matt is part of the Roller developer and user community, does good work and I'd like to encourage his further contributions and involvement by nominating him for committer status on Roller and giving him his first +1

• Full support for group blogging. Users can have multiple blogs and can invite other users to join group blogs with three permission levels and simple workflow.
• Web user interface redesign. The entire UI has been reworked to support group blogging, simplify and enhance the user experience.
• Additional database support. Database creation scripts added for Apache Derby, IBM DB2 and Oracle (in addition to existing MySQL, PostgreSQL and HSQL-DB support).
• Superusers. Global administrators can now admin and edit any blog in the system.
• And lots more!. The release also includes numerous bug fixes and small improvements, see CHANGES.txt for the full list of changes.

This is a new release, but the Roller 2.0 codebase has been in use for weeks at a number of production sites, including http://blogs.sun.com and this site. Here are links to the updated documentation:

• User Guide
• Macro Reference
• Installation Guide
• Upgrade Guide - how to upgrade Roller 1.x to Roller 2.0
• Configuration Guide
• Javadocs

As usual, if you run into installation or upgrade problems, please seek assistance on the Roller mailing lists. Please report bugs and enhancement requests to Roller's JIRA-based issue tracker.

NOTE: Roller is in the Apache Incubator, but this release is not an official release of or endorsed by the Apache Software Foundation. Also, Roller itself is licensed under the Apache license v2.0, but some components included in Roller have more restrictive licenses.

Welcome to Elias, who brings the Roller committer count up to 
seven (in chronological order: Dave, Matt, Lance, Anil, Henri, 
Allen, and now Elias). Elias runs one of the biggest Roller 
installs in the world at IBM and he's got lots of cool feature 
ideas and practical suggestions for improving Roller.

• roller-1.2.tar.gz: Roller 1.2 web application
• roller-src-1.2.tar.gz: Roller 1.1 source code
• roller-tools-1.2.tar.gz: Roller 1.2 dependencies (jars needed to build Roller source)
• roller-demo-1.2.tar.gz: Roller 1.2 standalone demo (w/Tomcat, HSQLDB and JSPWiki)

Once you've downloaded Roller refer to the docs to install and use Roller:

• Roller Installation Guide
• Roller User Guide
• Roller 1.2 Change List

Run into problems during installation? Subscribe to the Roller user mailing-list.

Roller Developer mailing list

• Subscribe by sending email to mailto:roller-dev-subscribe@incubator.apache.org
• Unsubscribe by sending email to mailto:roller-dev-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org

Roller User mailing list

• Subscribe by sending email to mailto:roller-user-subscribe@incubator.apache.org
• Unsubscribe by sending email to mailto:roller-user-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org

The full release

• roller-1.1.2.tar.gz: The web app - what you need to run Roller
• roller-1.1.2-src.tar.gz: The source code - what you need to build Roller from source
• roller-1.1.2-tools.tar.gz: The tools - you'll also need these jars to build Roller from source

The patch release

• roller-1.1.2-patch.tar.gz: Patch release - with a README.txt file that explains how to install

The full release

• roller-1.1.1.tar.gz: The web app - what you need to run Roller
• roller-1.1.1-src.tar.gz: The source code - what you need to build Roller from source
• roller-1.1.1-tools.tar.gz: The tools - you'll also need these jars to build Roller from source

The patch release

• roller-1.1.1-patch.tar.gz: Patch release - with a README.txt file that explains how to install

• roller-1.1.tar.gz: Roller 1.1 web application
• roller-src-1.1.tar.gz: Roller 1.1 source code
• roller-tools-1.1.tar.gz: Roller 1.1 dependencies (jars needed to build Roller source)

Once you've downloaded Roller refer to the docs to install and use Roller:

• Roller Installation Guide
• Roller User Guide
• Roller 1.1 Change List

Run into problems during installation? Subscribe to the Roller user mailing-list or stop by the #roller chat room on freenode.net.

Roller 1.0.1 is a bug fix release that also adds support for Google's new rel="nofollow" flag. You can get the release on Roller's Java.Net download space. You can read the change list on Roller's JIRA issue tracking system. And, you can find install instructions and instructions for upgrading your existing Roller 1.0 install to 1.0.1 on the Roller wiki. Happy rolling!

Roller 1.0 is the first major release of Roller since Roller 0.9.8 was released in September of 2003. See What's new with Roller 1.0 for a summary of the many changes, improvements, and bug fixes made since the last release.

Roller 1.0 has gone through a lot of testing and debugging. The Roller 1.0 release process began when Roller 0.9.9 was deployed at JRoller.com in May of 2004 and ended with the deployment of Roller 1.0RC1, 1.0RC2, and 1.0-Final at blogs.sun.com in December of the same year. Now it's your turn to try Roller 1.0. Download it, install it, and let us know how it works for you. Here are the links you need to get started:

• Downloads courtesy of Java.Net
• Installation Guide has been updated for Roller 1.0
• Bug reports go to Roller's JIRA issue tracker courtesy Atlassian
• Mailing lists are where you'll find (informal) tech support

Thanks to the many folks that helped to make Roller 1.0 possible:

• Anil Gangolli (committer)
• Dave Johnson (committer)
• Henri Yandell (committer)
• Jaap Van Der Molen (committer, retired)
• Lance Lavandowska (committer)
• Matt Raible (committer)
• Min Idzelis (committer, retired)
• Rick Ross, Matt Schmidt of Javalobby
• Will Snow, John Hoffman, and Klarrissa Marenicth of Sun
• And a cast of thousands of JRoller.com, blogs.sun.com, and Roller bloggers everywhere

Roller 1.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC1) has been released. RC2 is a test release of Roller 1.0 that may not yet be ready for production use. RC2 will probably be the last release candidate before the Roller 1.0 release which may occur as soon as next week.

Roller 1.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) has been released. RC1 is a test release of Roller 1.0 - not intended for production use. There may be one or more additional release candidates before the Roller 1.0 final release which will (most likely) occur sometime in November.

We're in the process of updating the Roller InstallationGuide for Roller 1.0. A generous Roller user named Noniko is translating the Roller UserGuide to Japanese.

We're getting ready to release Roller 1.0 RC1 for your evaluation and testing. There may be a couple of release candidate releases before we finally ship out Roller 1.0. Read more about it on Dave's blog.

We are happy to welcome Henri Yandell as our newest Roller contributor and committer.

All public Roller sites (those with open registration) should apply this security fix. roller_0983_patch.zip. It replaces Roller's rollerweb.jar and rollerbeans.jar files and fixes a security issue with Roller's file upload feature.