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Proposed Roller release targetted for late January 2006

Phase I (complete)#

Performance improvements#

• Proposal_CachingRewrite - AllenGilliland
• Proposal_PlanetEliminateLocalFetching - DaveJohnson

Theme management#

• Proposal_StandardizedTemplates - AllenGilliland

Spam prevention and management#

• Proposal_CommentManagementAndModeration - DaveJohnson
• Proposal_TrackbackVerification - DaveJohnson
• Proposal_UnifiedBlacklistManagement - DaveJohnson

Security system improvements#

• Proposal_AcegiSecurity - AllenGilliland, MattRaible

Apache compliance#

• Proposal_DownloadLGPLDependencies - DaveJohnson

Build improvements#

• Proposal_VelocityGeneratedDatabaseScripts - DaveJohnson

Blog Client API Improvements#

• Proposal_RSDSupport - SeanGilligan, AllenGilliland

Phase II (under development)#

Proposed code freeze: Thursday, January 20th

Performance improvements#

• Proposal_AsynchronousReferrerProcessing - don't process referrers on request thread - AllenGilliland
• Proposal_WeblogPageIfModifiedFilter - 304 responses for weblog pages - AllenGilliland
• Optionally eliminate language specific cache keys? - AllenGilliland
• Update ~IfPlanetModified to cache update times - AllenGilliland
• Memcached based cache - AllenGilliland
• Caching for roller runtime props - AllenGilliland

Other Enhancements#

• Proposal_MultipleFileUploads - Allow user to upload multiple files at once - DaveJohnson
• Proposal_BetterCommentProtection - Protections from malicious HTML in comments - DaveJohnson

Bug fixes#

• ROL-935 Math challenge bug. Comment authenticator doesn't play nice with the cache - AllenGilliland
• ROL-956 Broken emoticons. Emoticons plugin broken in Roller 2.0/2.1 - DaveJohnson
• Date queries broken in comment management page - DaveJohnson
• Transient object errors on weblog edit page - DaveJohnson

Refactorings#

• Parameterized queries to reduce number of query methods in backend - DaveJohnson
• Remove many-argument constructors in POJOs - DaveJohnson