Since our last report in November the Roller project has been making progress on two fronts: Roller 4.0 and Roller 4.1. Community is healthy, though we have seen some slow-down in mailing list activity. Here are the details.
Apache Roller 4.0 released!
Roller 4.0 is a major new release that upgrades Roller to Jave SE 5, Struts 2, Velocity 1.5 and OpenJPA. It's the first release that does not require Hibernate or any other LGPL code to run. It was released on December 5, 2007 and announced on the Roller mailing lists and the project blog.
We've made enough bug fixes in the Roller 4.0 branch that it's probably time to start thinking about a bug 4.0.1 bug fix release. Here's the list of issues fixed for 4.0.1
Roller 4.1 development, now in trunk
Roller 4.1 development is underway and since the Roller 4.0 release, we have merged the work into the trunk. The proposal to externalize user management has been implemented, as has the proposal to add a Tag Data API so other apps can get Roller's tag cloud data.
- See also Proposal Roller 4.1 Release
- See also list of issues resolved for 4.1
Apache Roller 3.1 completed, 3.1.1 RC6 ready for testing
No change in 3.1.1 status since last report. We still have not gotten votes for release.
We shipped 3.1 on April 23, 2007. A number of significant problems (including an XSS bug) were found and fixed. We are now testing a fix release known as 3.1.1 RC6, made available October 4, 2007 (announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/ynmrtj).
Some post graduation work still TBD
No change in status. JIRA is still hosted externally.
Apache Roller graduated back in March and announced graduation and the Apache Roller 3.1 release on April 23, 2007. However, we've still got some work to do. We're still waiting for our JIRA instance to be setup (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-813).
Community health
Community health is good, but activity has slowed a little during Fall of 2007. Developers and users are active on the mailing lists, reporting bugs, submitting patches and seeking support. A talk on Advanced Apache Roller has been accepted for ApacheCon EU 2008.
- See also Roller mail list stats
- See also Roller web and download stats