Project Roller

The Apache Roller project's latest board report is available here: May 2008 Board Report. The highlights include the completion of new Externalized User Management and Tag Data API work for Roller 4.1.

The Apache Roller project reports status on a quarterly basis and the latest report is now available here: February 2008 Board Report. Highlights from the report include the release of Apache Roller 4.0 and work towards a proposal for Roller 4.1.

Apache Roller 4.0 has been released and is now available for download.

This is a major new Roller release which includes easier blog theme customization, a much more simple installation/upgrade process, infrastructure improvements and numerous other small fixes. You can get the release files and the official documentation via the Apache mirrors at this page:

http://roller.apache.org/download.cgi

And you can read about the new features on the What's New in Roller 4.0 page of the Roller wiki.

Project releases are approved by vote of the Apache Roller Project Management Committee (PMC). For help with Roller, subscribe to the Roller mailing lists. To file a bug report or to suggest improvements use Roller's JIRA issue tracker.

Roller is a Project of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), formed by a resolution of the ASF Board of Directors. As an ASF Project, Roller is subject to the ASF Bylaws and the direction of the ASF Board.

The user mailing list and issue tracker are the only support options hosted by the Apache Roller project.

As noted in Roller Strong #9, we're on the second release candidate for Roller 4.0 now and release voting may begin this week, so get ready for the new release. If you are interested in testing the new release, download the release files and subscribe to one of the Roller mailing lists to provide feedback.

The Apache Roller team is pleased to announce that the project has graduated from the Apache Incubator and we've made available the long awaited Apache Roller 3.1, our first official Apache release.

First, the big news, we've graduated! In our time in the Apache Incubator we grew the already diverse Roller community, demonstrated our commitment to and understanding of Apache governance, reviewed all of our code to ensure compliance with Apache licensing policies and made major improvements in the Roller software. Now we have met all graduation requirements, the ASF board has passed our graduation resolution and we're an official top-level project of the Apache Software Foundation, hosted at http://roller.apache.org.

And last but not least, the big new release. Roller 3.1 is a major new release that includes support for tagging (contributed by IBM), an improved weblog editor based on Xinha, numerous other improvements and bug fixes. Learn more from the What's New in Roller 3.1 page. And you can find the list of issues addressed in our issue tracker.

This is a new release, but the Roller 3.1 code-base has been in use for months at a number of production sites, including http://blogs.sun.com and this site. Here are direct links to the download files:

Web application, binary release

• Roller 3.1 Web application (tar.gz) (key)
• Roller 3.1 Web application (zip) (key)
• Roller 3.1 Support at Java.net - required jars for use with Roller webapp

Source code release

• Roller 3.1 Source code (tar.gz) (key)
• Roller 3.1 Source code (zip) (key)
• Roller 3.1 Support at Java.net - required jars for use with Roller source

Here are links to the Roller 3.1 docs in PDF format.

• Roller 3.1 User Guide (PDF)
• Roller 3.1 Template Author Guide (PDF)
• Roller 3.1 Installation Guide (PDF)

If you run into installation problems please seek assistance on the Roller User Mailing List. Please report bugs and enhancement requests to Roller's JIRA based Issue Tracker.

Apache Roller 3.0 (incubating) is now available via the Apache incubator. For more information about the release see What's New in Roller 3.0 on the Roller wiki. This is a new release, but the Roller 3.0 codebase has been in use for over a month at a number of production sites, including http://blogs.sun.com and this site. Here are direct links to the download files:

• Roller 3.0 Web application (tar.gz) (key)
• Roller 3.0 Web application (zip) (key)

• Roller 3.0 Source code (tar.gz) (key)
• Roller 3.0 Source code (zip) (key)

Note that we no longer use the wiki for the user and installation guides. Instead, we're using OpenOffice format and generating HTML and PDF versions of these two documents. Here are links to the latest docs for Roller 3.0 in PDF format.

• Roller 3.0 User Guide (PDF)
• Roller 3.0 Template Author Guide (PDF)
• Roller 3.0 Installation Guide (PDF)

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. Roller itself is licensed under the Apache license v2.0, but requires some components that have more restrictive licenses (i.e. Hibernate).

Apache Roller 2.3-incubating is now available via the Apache incubator. For more information about the release see What's New in Roller 2.3 on the Roller wiki. This is a new release, but the Roller 2.3 codebase has been in use for over a month at a number of production sites, including http://blogs.sun.com and this site. Here are direct links to the download files:

• Roller 2.3 Web application (key)
• Roller 2.3 Source code (key)

Note that we no longer use the wiki for the user and installation guides. Instead, we're using OpenOffice format and generating HTML and PDF versions of these two documents. Here are links to the latest docs for Roller 2.3.

• Roller 2.3 Installation Guide (HTML)
• Roller 2.3 Installation Guide (PDF)
• Roller 2.3 User Guide (HTML)
• Roller 2.3 User Guide (PDF)

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. Roller itself is licensed under the Apache license v2.0, but requires some components that have more restrictive licenses (i.e. Hibernate).

We have removed the Roller 2.1 and Roller 2.0.1 releases from the Roller downloads area because of a serious problem that affected those upgrading from Roller 1.X. If you downloaded Roller 2.1 or Roller 2.0.1 before today and you plan to upgrade a Roller 1.X system, throw away that old download and get the latest one.

Roller 2.1.1 is available here: Roller 2.1.1 download directory

Roller 2.0.2 is available here: Roller 2.0.2 download directory