An approximate changelog 5.0.3 to 5.1.2 (resolved issues from Jira):
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Bug ROL-2057
Missing NPE check in Roller PageServlet class
Unassigned Kohei Nozaki Major 30/Mar/15
Bug ROL-2058
No salt renewal on POST request
David Johnson Kohei Nozaki Major 30/Mar/15
Bug ROL-2059
Comment preview is invisible in Gaurav theme
David Johnson Kohei Nozaki Major 30/Mar/15
Bug ROL-2061
Wrong next month link of Calendar
David Johnson Kohei Nozaki Major 30/Mar/15
Bug ROL-2062
Missing NPE check in IndexOperation#getDocument()
David Johnson Kohei Nozaki Major 30/Mar/15
Improvement ROL-2064
Add viewport meta tag to Gaurav theme
David Johnson Kohei Nozaki Trivial 30/Mar/15
Bug ROL-2065
Gaurav sometimes displaying empty summary as unresolved "$entry.summary"
David Johnson Kohei Nozaki Minor 30/Mar/15
Bug ROL-2066
Comment URLs using https:// not saving properly in Gaurav theme
David Johnson Kohei Nozaki Trivial 30/Mar/15
Bug ROL-2067
Velocity configuration improvement
David Johnson David Johnson Major 30/Mar/15
Documentation ROL-2056
Wrong pointer (section number) in Install Guide at section 11.2
Unassigned Kohei Nozaki Minor 05/Jan/15
Bug ROL-2052
Custom stylesheets not being updated correctly when user switches between shared and custom themes.
Unassigned Glen Mazza Major 06/Oct/14
Bug ROL-2051
Roller not falling back to standard theme renditions when mobile one unavailable.
Unassigned Glen Mazza Critical 02/Oct/14
Bug ROL-1387
In creating tag aggregate counts, count tags only from published blog entries
Glen Mazza linda skrocki Major 02/Oct/14
Bug ROL-1620
Plus signs in categories lead to a 404 category RSS/Atom feeds
Glen Mazza linda skrocki Major 02/Oct/14
Bug ROL-2055
Comment search should be case insensitive
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Minor 02/Oct/14
Bug ROL-2054
Newly saved categories not appearing on blog
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Major 02/Oct/14
Bug ROL-1974
Roller's ROME Propono dependency needs updating to use newer JARs
David Johnson Glen Mazza Minor 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1973
ROME dependency used by Roller needs updating
David Johnson Glen Mazza Minor 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1942
Uploaded media file not selectable in media file view
Greg Huber Budi Ariyanto Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1948
getRealPath() null not handled
Unassigned Jürgen Weber Major 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-2039
Rename webpage and roller_templatecode tables
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-2041
gaurav theme -- render full blog entries on main blog page if no summary given
Gaurav Saini Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-1999
Switch from Referrers to storing tracking codes (e.g., Google Analytics)
Unassigned Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1980
When deleting categories, Roller allows you to move its entries to invisible "root" category.
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1981
Allow user to specify order of blog categories
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-1979
Remove subcategory functionality from Roller 5.1
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1554
Listing Box "Invite a new user to join..." does not have a horizontal scrolling bar
Glen Mazza Davis Nguyen Major 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-2038
Add dualTheme element to themes.xml descriptor
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Blocker 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-1938
Switch to mobile template only in standard template's index page
Unassigned Tiger Gui Major 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-1937
Standard and Mobile template switch improvement patch
Unassigned Tiger Gui Major 25/Aug/14
New Feature ROL-1934
LDAP Comment Authenticator
Dave Johnson (Inactive) Nick Padilla Major 25/Jan/12 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-1977
Remove unused properties from ApplicationResources.properties
Glen Mazza Anil Gangolli Minor 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-1881
Add delete blog entry option to entries page
Unassigned Nicolas Muller Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1571
missing graphic alt text
Unassigned mike duigou Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1928
Missing 500-to-510-migration.vm file in Roller Mobile branch
David Johnson David Johnson Major 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-2043
Switch from YUI3 to JQuery UI for autocomplete, tabs, dialogs
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-2022
Add Categories, demote tags from gaurav theme
Gaurav Saini Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-2008
In "switch to (media) folder" drop-down, don't list the current folder the user is in.
Greg Huber Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1273
resource item error
Glen Mazza Jian Liu Major 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-1434
lots of UI messaging needs to be converted to i18n keys in resource bundles
Glen Mazza Allen Gilliland Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-2044
Member management page allows user to remove himself from blog.
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1966
Search highlight problem
Glen Mazza Maciej Rumianowski Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1957
Unable to find RSD template
Unassigned Harsh Gupta Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1792
Hit count increments with <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="$model.weblog.stylesheet">
Greg Huber Greg Huber Trivial 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1716
a bug found when call getPopularTags with the limit=-1 (v4 m1)
Unassigned guoweizhan Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1414
Email scrambler not detecting hyphens in email addresses
Allen Gilliland linda skrocki Major 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-1649
Korean translation resource file
Unassigned Woonsan Ko Minor 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1930
Saving Template causes Null Pointer Exception
David Johnson David Johnson Blocker 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-1983
Only expose AJAX User List Servlet to admin users
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-1986
Stop sending re-confirmation email after blogger approves comment.
Greg Huber Glen Mazza Minor 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-1978
Switch to more SEO-friendly hyphens instead of underscores to separate blog titles
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Minor 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1616
Input fields not emptied after creating a new user
Unassigned Ronald Iwema Minor 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1638
Problem with themes on case sensitive file systems
Unassigned German Eichberger Major 25/Aug/14
New Feature ROL-1021
Referrer queue warning / filling up in logs. unclosed sessions.
Unassigned Rob Wilson Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1927
Roller 5 MSSQL Issues/Fixes
David Johnson Nick Padilla Major 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-2034
Hide Profile Password fields with SSO
Glen Mazza Jürgen Weber Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1794
file uploads with spaces in their names are 404ing (incorrect URL escaping?)
Greg Huber Dick Davies Major 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-1370
Support of email notifications preference for blog commentors
Unassigned linda skrocki Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1346
Weblog Calendar incorrectly assuming Sunday is first day of week for every locale.
Unassigned Vahid Zaboli Major 25/Aug/14
Test ROL-2033
Test Roller 5.1 with a weblog client
David Johnson David Johnson Major 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-2010
Update User's Guide with new app screen shots
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-2002
https:// URLs not being processed correctly in the comment URL field
Greg Huber Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-1994
Switch to Apache Commons Collections 4.0
Unassigned Glen Mazza Minor 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1870
Duplicate bookmarks not showing
Unassigned Greg Huber Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1925
Patch for the bug of OpenID only authentication
Glen Mazza Shutra Major 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-929
Resign | "Are you sure?" Confirmation
Glen Mazza Greg Hamer Minor 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-2015
Add a description element to theme descriptor file (theme.xml)
Greg Huber Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-1997
Switch WeblogEntry's pub status fields (DRAFT, PUBLISHED, PENDING, SCHEDULED) to an enum type
Unassigned Glen Mazza Minor 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-1995
Switch to JPA Typed Queries
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-1984
./app/src/test/resources/WEB-INF/security.xml needs updating to Spring & Spring Security 3.x namespaces
Unassigned Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1738
Charset of E-Mail Subject Needs to be configurable
Unassigned SATO Naoki Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1715
SiteModel's getWeblogsByLetterPager not documented correctly
Glen Mazza David Johnson Minor 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-2028
Separate the Basic Theme into Basic and Basic Mobile Themes
David Johnson Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-2018
"Notify me of new comments" not working on trunk.
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-2000
Change current rol_ prefix for two newest tables
Unassigned Glen Mazza Minor 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1992
Blogroll OPML import page raising 500 Security Error
Unassigned Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-1991
Switch publish date pop-up calendar to one with year entry option
Unassigned Glen Mazza Minor 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-1907
Inefficient use of key set iterator.
Unassigned Shelan Perera Minor 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-2032
Test Roller 5.1 with blogs.apache.org database & themes
David Johnson David Johnson Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-2007
Changing values in Media File Editor frequently results in permissions error.
Greg Huber Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1988
Category search not working if space exists in category
Glen Mazza Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1952
Roller 5.0.1 does not work with PostgreSQL 9.1
Unassigned Matthias Wimmer Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1746
Uploaded file names are lower-cased with AtomPub.
Greg Huber Tatsuya Noyori Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1596
Frontpage theme lose record!
Glen Mazza xiaojf Major 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-1430
French Translation (based on version 4.0 files)
Unassigned Denis Balazuc Minor 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-1965
Searching with locale on Multi Language blog
Glen Mazza Maciej Rumianowski Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-2016
roller-startup.log not created on startup
Greg Huber Greg Huber Minor 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-2009
Custom template theme folder creation isn't working
Unassigned Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-1947
Provide a blog entry-level description field that can go into HTML header field
Dave Johnson (Inactive) Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1956
ValidateSaltFilter not working on file upload
Greg Huber Matthias Wimmer Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1954
user weblogs cannot be managed when admin logs in and select any user via Server Aministration and clicks on eit
Unassigned Harsh Gupta Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1795
Posting comments with SchemeEnforcementFilter in operation.
Greg Huber Greg Huber Minor 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-2030
Replace Xinha editor with something more recent
Unassigned Glen Mazza Minor 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-1968
Upgrade Spring Security from 2.0.7 to 3.1.4
Unassigned Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Improvement ROL-1964
SearchServlet does not preserve locale
Unassigned Maciej Rumianowski Minor 25/Aug/14
Task ROL-2005
Switch to top-level folders only for Media Files
Unassigned Glen Mazza Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1739
Missing constraint on weblogentrytagagg table
Glen Mazza David Johnson Major 25/Aug/14
Bug ROL-1778
Blog entry preview before first publish not working with Derby database
Glen Mazza José Arthur Benetasso Villanova Major 25/Aug/14
for blog sites large and small.
Roller is a Java web application that should be able to run on any Java EE
server and any relational database. Currently, Roller is best supported on
Tomcat and MySQL -- but users have reported success running Roller on
Glassfish, Websphere, JBoss, Resin, Gernonimo, Derby, PostgresSQL, Oracle,
etc.)
Here are some of Roller's key features:
* Multi-user blogging: can support tens of thousands of users and blogs
* Group blogging with three permisson levels (editor, author and limited)
* Support for comment moderation and comment spam prevention measures
* Bloggers have complete control over blog layout/style via templates
* Built-in search engine indexes weblog entry content
* Pluggable cache and rendering system
* Support for blog clients that support MetaWeblog API
* All blogs have entry and comment feeds in both RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 formats
