Blogging Roller

This is a release candidate. The Installation Guide has been updated, but the User Guide remains to be updated for the final 0.9.6 release. You can download Roller 0.9.6-rc1 at SourceForge (thanks VA Software!). Make your contribution to Roller by reporting any problems that you find to Roller's JIRA issue tracker (thanks Atlassian!). And finally, thanks to all the Roller contributors and supporters!

UPDATE: Here are some more convenient download links:

roller-0.9.6-rc1.tar.gz - All you need to run Roller (on Tomcat)
roller-src-0.9.6-rc1.tgz - Full source code, build scripts, etc.
roller-tools-0.9.6-rc1.tgz - Jars needed to build, extract into source dir

Summary of new features:

   Multi-user :
   - Admin UI for deleting users
   - Better start page: pages through users, shows time of last update
   - Allow users to change their email addresses and passwords
   - Plugin authenticator
   
   Weblog editing enhancements:
   - Ekit HTML editor applet is available as an option to users
   - Option to save weblog entries without publishing them
   - Better control over weblog entry publish date
   
   New and improve macros:
   - Protection from recursion in includePage and showWeblogEntries macros   
   - Big archive calendar macro shows titles for each day
   - Expand/collapse feature in Bookmark and Newsfeed macros
   - Users can control number of weblog entries displayed
   - New macros, including those necessary for RSS templating
   
   RSS related features:
   - Multiple RSS feeds for each weblog, one for each category
   - RSS feeds available with full-text or excerpts only
   - RSS aggregation features may now be disabled
   - RSS syndication output is now cached