Blogging Roller

Matt Raible: Aaaahhh, the beauty of open source development: 1) you don't have to work on it at all if you don't want to, 2) you only have to implement the features you want, and 3) there are no deadlines.

Roller 0.9.7-RC1 should be out in the next day or two. Here are the new features:

Comments, Trackbacks, and Linkbacks
   * Both in-page and pop-up style comments are supported
   * Remember-me feature for comments
   * You can delete comments that you don't like
   * Support for Movable Type style Trackbacks
   * Trackbacks are treated as comments
   * You can send Trackback pings to other weblogs
   * Support for Mark Pilgrim style "for further reading" Linkbacks
   * Linkback searches referering sites and RSS feeds for excerpts
   * Linkbacks can be disabled by Roller administrator
   * New #showLinkbacks() macros displays Linkbacks for day
   
MetaWeblog API
   * Support for both Blogger API and MetaWeblog API
   * Allows both titles and categories from w.bloggar and other clients.

General
   * Simplified main page is much faster than before
   * Main page displays most recent posts and most popular blogs
   * Main page RSS feed aggregates all posts on site   
   * Remember-me feature for logins
   * New VelociMacros are replacing old page macros
   * One click to post as public or post as private 
   * Spell checker for posts

I don't expect Anthony to upgrade FreeRoller until the final release.