Plans for future versions of the DITA Open Toolkit

The latest version of the DITA-OT 1.4.2.1, which was released May 6, 2008.

The project is currently shifting towards a more agile process, with several development iterations that will accumulate new items until we have enough for a release.

We are now beginning work on version 1.5 of the toolkit, and expect to release version 1.5 with support for DITA 1.2 (with several milestone builds leading up to final release). The timing of this release is heavily dependent on the progress of the OASIS DITA 1.2 Specification. Several milestone builds have already been released; see Plans for DITA-OT 1.5 for more information on the latest package.

UPDATE (February 25, 2009): Due to delays in approval of OASIS DITA 1.2, and the long time that has passed from our previous official release, we are now planning to release DITA-OT 1.4.3 in mid-March. As with other releases in the 1.4 series, this point release will be based on DITA 1.1, although much of the upcoming DITA  1.2 function will be available in demo mode. See Plans for DITA-OT 1.5 for more information for more information on this release as well.

Work is also being done on the PDF2 plug-in. See Plans for the DITA Open Toolkit PDF2 Plug-in for more information.

New items for consideration should be submitted to the project page at SourceForge. Any open item on the SourceForge bug tracker, patch tracker, or feature tracker is a candidate for a future release.

• Bug tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725074
• RFE tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725077
• Patch tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725076

As development begins on any significant item, a design document should be created here for tracking and discussion. Design documents should use the DITA Open Toolkit Design Document Template.