Apache Roller 6.0.0 release has been approved by vote of the PMC. +1 Greg H +1 Aditya S +1 Dave J +1 Michael B
Thanks to all who contributed to the release. I will move the binaries to the mirrored repo and make the release announcement today. Dave On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 1:23 PM Dave <snoopd...@gmail.com> wrote: > I made fixes for the problems identified in the previous release candidate > (JavaScript length instead of size and the template remove breakage). Now > would like to call a vote to release candidate #3 as Roller 6.0.0. > Release candidate files are here: > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/roller/roller-6.0/v6.0.0/ > > Please vote +1 to release or -1 with reason(s) not to release. > > Thanks, > Dave > > Below are the proposed release notes (thanks to Swapnil for the edits): > > ================= > The Apache Roller community is pleased to announce the release for > Apache Roller 6.0.0. > > Apache Roller is a Java-based, full-featured, multi-user and > group-blog server suitable for blog sites large and small. > > "Apache Roller 6.0.0" is the latest and greatest release of Roller; for > more details of the changes introduced with this new version please refer > to > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310906&version=12344884 > > Apache Roller is available on the download page: > https://roller.apache.org/downloads/downloads.html > > In summary, Roller 6 is a new version of Roller with these features: > * Web interface has been rewritten to use Twitter bootstrap > via the Struts 2 Bootstrap tags. > * Most dependencies have been upgraded to the latest version. > * Compiled with Java 11 and requires Java 11. > * The installation guide has been converted from OpenOffice to AsciiDocs. > > It should be relatively easy to upgrade from Roller 5.2.4 to Roller 6 > because there are no changes to the database schema (that means you can > easily roll back if you find problems). The user interface is different and > we hope you'll find it better, easier to use, more intuitive and with a > more modern feel. > > Thanks to the many contributors to Roller for this new release. > We hope you'll enjoy and find it useful. > > For more information on Apache Roller, visit the project website: > https://roller.apache.org/ > ======================== >
