Project Roller

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). Support for a release is provided by project volunteers on the project mailing lists. Additional free support is provided by many other volunteer subscribers to the list. Bugs found in a release may be discussed on the list and reported through the 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.

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.

• 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).

• 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).

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

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 2.1.

• Roller 2.1 Installation Guide (HTML)
• Roller 2.1 Installation Guide (PDF)

• Roller 2.1 User Guide (HTML)
• Roller 2.1 User Guide (PDF)

The Roller 2.1 Upgrade Guide is still on the wiki.

As usual, if you run into installation or upgrade problems, please seek assistance on the Roller mailing lists. Please report bugs and enhancement requests to Roller's JIRA-based issue tracker.

And work is well underway for Roller 2.2. What's New in Roller 2.2 describes what's coming in the next release.

NOTE: Roller is in the Apache Incubator, but this release is not an official release of or endorsed by the Apache Software Foundation. Also, Roller itself is licensed under the Apache license v2.0, but some components included in Roller have more restrictive licenses.

Get it in our Java.Net project's Roller 2.0.1 download folder

UPDATE: A small problem was found in the database upgrade scripts and the Roller 2.0.1 download has been refreshed with a fix for the problem.

Dave Johnson: Matt was one of the earliest users and supporters of Roller. He's the director of technology at the Javalobby and along with Rick Ross he helped grow the Roller community by offering free Roller-based blogs at JRoller.com. Matt, Rick and I spent many hours on instant messenger, on the phone and at Javalobby headquarters (here in Cary, NC) debugging Roller's early performance problems. Since then, he's played an active role in the Roller dev list and I've continued to work with him on Roller issues via instant messenger.

Matt is part of the Roller developer and user community, does good work and I'd like to encourage his further contributions and involvement by nominating him for committer status on Roller and giving him his first +1

• Full support for group blogging. Users can have multiple blogs and can invite other users to join group blogs with three permission levels and simple workflow.
• Web user interface redesign. The entire UI has been reworked to support group blogging, simplify and enhance the user experience.
• Additional database support. Database creation scripts added for Apache Derby, IBM DB2 and Oracle (in addition to existing MySQL, PostgreSQL and HSQL-DB support).
• Superusers. Global administrators can now admin and edit any blog in the system.
• And lots more!. The release also includes numerous bug fixes and small improvements, see CHANGES.txt for the full list of changes.

This is a new release, but the Roller 2.0 codebase has been in use for weeks at a number of production sites, including http://blogs.sun.com and this site. Here are links to the updated documentation:

• User Guide
• Macro Reference
• Installation Guide
• Upgrade Guide - how to upgrade Roller 1.x to Roller 2.0
• Configuration Guide
• Javadocs

As usual, if you run into installation or upgrade problems, please seek assistance on the Roller mailing lists. 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. Also, Roller itself is licensed under the Apache license v2.0, but some components included in Roller have more restrictive licenses.

Welcome to Elias, who brings the Roller committer count up to 
seven (in chronological order: Dave, Matt, Lance, Anil, Henri, 
Allen, and now Elias). Elias runs one of the biggest Roller 
installs in the world at IBM and he's got lots of cool feature 
ideas and practical suggestions for improving Roller.

• roller-1.2.tar.gz: Roller 1.2 web application
• roller-src-1.2.tar.gz: Roller 1.1 source code
• roller-tools-1.2.tar.gz: Roller 1.2 dependencies (jars needed to build Roller source)
• roller-demo-1.2.tar.gz: Roller 1.2 standalone demo (w/Tomcat, HSQLDB and JSPWiki)

Once you've downloaded Roller refer to the docs to install and use Roller:

• Roller Installation Guide
• Roller User Guide
• Roller 1.2 Change List

Run into problems during installation? Subscribe to the Roller user mailing-list.

Roller Developer mailing list

• Subscribe by sending email to mailto:roller-dev-subscribe@incubator.apache.org
• Unsubscribe by sending email to mailto:roller-dev-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org

Roller User mailing list

• Subscribe by sending email to mailto:roller-user-subscribe@incubator.apache.org
• Unsubscribe by sending email to mailto:roller-user-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org

The full release

• roller-1.1.2.tar.gz: The web app - what you need to run Roller
• roller-1.1.2-src.tar.gz: The source code - what you need to build Roller from source
• roller-1.1.2-tools.tar.gz: The tools - you'll also need these jars to build Roller from source

The patch release

• roller-1.1.2-patch.tar.gz: Patch release - with a README.txt file that explains how to install