THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION - JUNE 13, 2007
Infrastructure improvements
- Struts 2 migration - We have completely migrated to Struts2. ROL-1439
- New JPA based backend - OpenJPA backend is now the default, Hibernate still present until JPA is tested sufficiently ROL-1447
- Proposal Easy Install - Make the Roller installation process simple by requiring only a single simple property file for configuration and by automating creation and update of database tables required for Roller. Almost complete: auto-create and update work remains to be done. ROL-1448
- Proposal Account Activation via Email - Add support for registration via email (patch from Sedat Çiftçi)
Ease of customization improvements
- Proposal Stylesheet Overrides for Weblogs - a way to allow weblogs to do stylesheet customizations without having to customize their theme and hack the templates
- ROL-1368 Ease of weblog customization: Style selection by theme(s)
- ROL-1366 Ease of weblog customization: custom bio blurp & thumbnail entry
- ROL-1222 Improve theme support
- Proposal Individual Templates By Action Support a way to define individual or separate template files for various weblog page actions
- ROL-1310 Individual templates by action (feeds, tags, archive, etc.)
- Proposal_TemplateEditorEnhancements - Improvements to usability and functionality of Preferences->Templates pages
- Proposal_ThemeEncapsulation - Better encapsulation and modularization for themes.
Syndication improvements
- Proposal_FeedHistory - Add Atom-friendly feed-history (paging) support to our feeds.
- Proposal_SearchFeeds - Add support to generate feeds from search results.
Other small improvements and bug fixes
- ROL-1136 Enable the use of Screen Name (was 'allow user to change username')
- ROL-1294 Task scheduling is inconsistent due to use of java.util.Timer
- ROL-1323 Remove 'Referrers' tab for sites that don't use this functionality
- ROL-1350 Refine trackback message...
- ROL-1359 a small bug about bookmarks
- ROL-1360 Notify email value $cform.notify is always false
- ROL-1365 Filter by Search String on the Entries page
- ROL-1371 Bad links in site-wide comment links
- ROL-1378 Upgrade to Apache Velocity 1.5
- ROL-1379 Upgrade to Apache XMLRPC 3.0
- ROL-1380 Rename Atom Admin Publishing Protocol
- ROL-1386 Keywords on blacklist still let through in comments while non blacklisted terms are trapped