File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 0.9.8
Notes: This is the Roller web application: all you need if you want to run Roller on your server. If you are running PostgreSQL, then replace the file WEB-INF/lib/rollerbeans.jar with the one provided in roller-0.9.8.2-patch1.zip.
Changes: 0.9.8.3: Security fix patch release (August 29, 2004) Fixes security issue in File Upload feature. Recommened for all public Roller sites. Contains rollerweb.jar and rollerbeans.jar. See readme.txt for instructions. 0.9.8.2: Bug fix release (March 25, 2004) ROL-271 FIXED Description field should be encoded ROL-298 FIXED RSS feeds do not support HTTP Conditional GET or Gzip encoding ROL-297 FIXED Include <guid> elements in default RSS feeds ROL-310 FIXED Deleting entry should also delete referers and comments ROL-199 FIXED Referential integrity failure deleting bookmark folder ROL-325 FIXED Don't allow delete of last category 0.9.8.1: Bug fix release ROL-252 FIXED Wrong comments link in RSS ROL-241 FIXED xml feed uses dc:date instead of pubDate ROL-258 FIXED Enable comments by default for new blogs ROL-251 FIXED Roller config changes should be immediately flushed ROL-171 FIXED comments needs improvement, I get lots of double postings ROL-249 FIXED Disabling comments doesn't disable the comment form on the comment-form-in-page ROL-246 FIXED Adding a page causes unhandled exception ROL-232 FIXED   problems in RSS feed ROL-212 FIXED Empty blog page ROL-255 FIXED Theme won't change ROL-216 FIXED Admin can't delete user. ROL-242 FIXED Weblogs.com ping sends wrong URL ROL-259 FIXED Get rid of the FIRST POST! ROL-237 FIXED Preview Theme doesn't seem to be working ROL-214 FIXED Category chooser for Currency theme ROL-202 FIXED Error saving customizations to theme ROL-238 FIXED Parameters intended for the 'edit website settings' are being sent to the logout-redirect.jsp. ROL-264 FIXED Ping Weblogs.com should be off by default in weblog editor ROL-245 FIXED Mispelling 0.9.8: Performance improvements and bug fixes Dramatic performance increase due to addition of database indices, proper use of persistence sessions, and new version of OSCache. New features include Weblog.com ping and integrated Lucene weblog search. ROL-197 FIXED error inserting null into page.updatetime on register new user ROL-196 FIXED Blogger/MetaBlog API operations flush entire cache ROL-187 FIXED Some SQL friendly table and column renames ROL-206 FIXED Comment links in site-wide RSS feed are wrong ROL-160 FIXED Theme switcher workflow issues ROL-172 FIXED index.jsp only contains Home | Login links ROL-198 FIXED Support accented characters in RSS ROL-208 FIXED Client-aborts should not be logged as errors ROL-60 FIXED Encrypt passwords in the DB ROL-189 FIXED Add macro to set content type of a page ROL-180 FIXED Use relative URLs in HTML, make RSS URLs configurable ROL-173 FIXED hsqldb migration script has syntax issues ROL-179 FIXED Main page not updating list of updated blogs ROL-183 FIXED Linkback extractor can't handle relative auto-discovery links ROL-120 FIXED encoding type wrong (freeroller) ROL-178 FIXED PageCache and RssCache filter timeouts cannot differ ROL-100 FIXED Resin specific install guide ROL-181 FIXED Ping weblogs.com when entry changed/entered ROL-185 FIXED Test page doesn't close JDBC connection ROL-215 FIXED Anchor links for Currency theme ROL-209 FIXED Blogger API error messages reversed ROL-184 FIXED SQL script improvements ROL-207 FIXED Main page list of popular blogs should be smaller ROL-205 FIXED dstest.jsp wont compile ROL-200 FIXED Context XML file for Tomcat 4.1.x
