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Apache Roller 6.1.1 release is available
04.30.2022 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
The Apache Roller project is pleased to announce the availability of Roller 6.1.1, a release that upgrades many dependencies including Spring, Struts, Lucene, Log4J, Guice and Bouncy Castle. The release and convenience binaries can be found on the Roller project download page here:
Apache Roller 6.1.0 release is available
12.22.2021 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
Apache Roller 6.0.2 is available for download
08.16.2021 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
The Roller PMC has approved the release of Apache Roller 6.0.2, a minor bug fix release.
Apache Roller 6 released!
12.30.2019 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
The Apache Roller community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Roller 6.0.0, the latest and greatest release of Roller. For more details of the changes introduced with this new version please refer to the release notes in JIRA. In summary, Roller 6 is a new version of Roller with these features:
- Web interface has been rewritten to use Twitter bootstrap via the Struts 2 Bootstrap tags.
- Most dependencies have been upgraded to the latest version.
- Compiled with Java 11 and requires Java 11.
- The installation guide has been converted from OpenOffice to AsciiDocs.
It should be relatively easy to upgrade from Roller 5.2.4 to Roller 6 because there are no changes to the database schema (that means you can easily roll back if you find problems). The user interface is different and we hope you'll find it better, easier to use, more intuitive and with a more modern feel.
Thanks to the many contributors to Roller for this new release. We hope you'll enjoy and find it useful.
Apache Roller is available on the download page:
https://roller.apache.org/downloads/downloads.html
For more information on Apache Roller, visit the project website:
Apache Roller 5.2.4 is available
08.12.2019 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
The Apache Roller community is pleased to announce the release of Roller v5.2.4, a bug fix release that fixes a problem introduced in Roller 5.2.3. The Xinha-based rich-text editor was broken in 5.2.3 and this release fixes that.
The release may be downloaded from the Roller project download page:
http://roller.apache.org/downloads/downloads.html
Thanks,
The Apache Roller community
Apache Roller 5.2.3 released
07.11.2019 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
The Apache Roller community is pleased to announce the release of Roller v5.2.3, a bug fix release with some minor improvements. You can find the list of fixes and improvements at the end of this email.
Release may be downloaded from the Roller project download page:
http://roller.apache.org/downloads/downloads.html
Roller 5.2.3 also fixes a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CVE-2019-0234) in Roller's comment authenticator, so users are strongly encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.Thanks,
The Apache Roller community
Changes in Roller 5.2.3
Bug fixes:
[ROL-2100] - HTTPS Scheme Enforcement feature removed
[ROL-2127] - Automatic database upgrade fails
[ROL-2129] - duplicate index on roller_oauthconsumer as Primary Key
[ROL-2132] - Remember-me fails when LDAP used for auth
[ROL-2135] - Comment Authenticator fix
[ROL-2138] - NOTICE file does not have standard content
[ROL-2143] - Fix mvn jetty:run
Improvements:
[ROL-2137] - Require rememberme.key to be set
Tests:
[ROL-2142] - Skip RSS/Atom feed fetcher tests on Java 1.7
Apache Roller 5.2 released!
11.06.2017 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
The Apache Roller community is pleased to announce the release of Roller 5.2.0. This release includes some small improvements to Roller and a couple dozen bug fixes. It also upgrades many dependencies including Apache Struts 2.5 and eliminates use of Dynamic Method Invocation (DMI).
The list of resolved JIRA issues is here: JIRA Change List
Release may be downloaded from the Roller project Downloads Page
Enjoy!
About Roller
05.08.2017 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
Apache Roller is the open source Java blog server that once powered the ground-breaking employee blogging site blogs.sun.com, FreeRoller, JavaLobby's JRoller community and still powers the Apache Software Foundation blogs. If you want to set up a Java-powered blog server for yourself or for several thousand of your closest friends, try Roller!
Roller supports fundamental weblogging features such as group blogging, RSS and Atom newsfeeds, rich-text editing, customizable page templates, comments, pings, trackbacks, blogroll management and provides Atom Publishing Protocol and XML-RPC interfaces for blogging clients.
Roller was featured in an O'Reilly OnJava.com article on April 17, 2002. That article is no longer online, but you can read it here: Building an Open Source J2EE Weblogger (PDF).
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