Apache Roller

Apache Roller is a Java-based open-source "full-featured, Multi-blog, Multi-user, and group-blog server suitable for blog sites large and small".^[3] Roller was originally written by Dave Johnson in 2002 for a magazine article on open source development tools,^[4] but became popular at FreeRoller.net (now JRoller.com) and was later chosen to drive the employee blogs at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and IBM developerWorks blogs.^[2]

Apache Roller

Developer(s)	Apache Software Foundation
Stable release	6.1.2[1] / 2023-07-30[±]
Repository	Roller Repository
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Weblog server
License	Apache License 2.0[2]
Website	roller.apache.org

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On April 23, 2007, Roller project graduated from incubator, so it became an official project of the Apache Software Foundation and it was released 3.1 version, first official release.^[5]