Dear Apache Roller Community,

I am pleased to call for a vote on the release of Apache Roller 6.1.6-RC1.
This is a maintenance release that retires three obsolete features, hardens
media and enclosure handling, and fixes the source distribution so that it
builds. The release candidate files can be found at:

https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/roller/roller-6.1/v6.1.6

* apache-roller-6.1.6-rc1-source.tar.gz
* apache-roller-6.1.6-rc1-source.zip
* apache-roller-6.1.6-rc1-binary.tar.gz
* apache-roller-6.1.6-rc1-binary.zip

Each has a .asc signature and .sha512 and .sha256 checksums alongside it.
This release is signed with a new key, 8FEC6F9CBA59703C, so please re-import
KEYS before verifying: https://downloads.apache.org/roller/KEYS

Please review the release candidate and cast your vote:

[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Roller 6.1.6
[ ] 0 No opinion
[ ] -1 Do not release this package because...

The vote will be open for at least 72 hours.

## Key Changes in Apache Roller 6.1.6

### Retired Features - Please Read Before Upgrading
* Incoming Trackback support removed; the endpoint is gone and unmapped
* Outbound Trackback removed from the entry editor
* WSSE AtomPub authentication retired; authentication.method now takes
basic or oauth, and an installation set to wsse will fail closed on
startup rather than falling back

### Media and Enclosures
* Media file content types derived from file content, not the upload request
* Enclosure metadata stored as submitted, without fetching the remote URL

### Authoring and Rendering
* Authoring resource lookups scoped to the weblog being edited
* Weblog template resources resolved within the active theme
* Front page selection moved into the administrator setup workflow
* Authoring UI event handlers moved to data attributes

### Web Services
* XML-RPC handlers check weblog permission per method
* Vendor extension types disabled on the XML-RPC servlet
* OAuth authorization bound to the current session and made one-shot

### Build and Packaging
* Source distribution now includes db-utils, which was missing from earlier
source releases and prevented them from building
* Third-party jars no longer shipped in the source distribution
* CHANGES.md added, and sign-release.sh takes the version as an argument

Thank you for your time and contributions to the Apache Roller project.

Best regards,
Dave Johnson

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