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Roller 0.9.6-rc1 is available

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 <a href= "http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/BrowseProject.jspa"> JIRA issue tracker (thanks <a href= "http://www.atlassian.com">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
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