Plans for future versions of the DITA Open Toolkit

The latest version of the DITA-OT (as of March 2008) is 1.4.1, which was released in the fall of 2007.

The first milestone build of DITA 1.4.2 is available at SourceForge; see the 1.4.2 plans below for more information. 

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. The current main focus of development is on maintenance and small enhancements. Once OASIS releases a draft of the DITA 1.2 specification we will shift towards major development on DITA 1.2 support.

The next version of the toolkit will be 1.4.2, which will primarily include maintenance fixes. See Plans for DITA-OT 1.4.2 for more information.

We will likely try to release version 1.5 of the toolkit 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. See Plans for DITA-OT 1.5 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.