DITA Open Toolkit Version 1.5.1

Note: while the DITA Standard itself is owned and developed by OASIS, the DITA Open Toolkit is an independent, open source implementation of the standard. 

Version 1.5.1 of the DITA Open Toolkit will be a point release based on version 1.2 of the DITA Standard. At present, the release date for 1.5.1 is tentatively planned to coincide with final approval of the DITA 1.2 standard, but the date may be moved up if the standard is delayed.

Development of 1.5.1 will take place as a series of 3-week iterations. Each iteration will end with a milestone release available under the "test build" heading at the DITA-OT download page on SourceForge. The updates included with each milestone build are listed below.

Test build history and plan

• Milestone 1 was released January 26, 2010. This build includes several fixes, as well as a patch from Eliot Kimber that significantly improves processing speed and memory usage for large data sets.
• Milestone 2 will be released around February 15, and will include additional fixes and patches.

Fixes, patches, and enhancements in 1.5.1

The lists below contain a cumulative list of updates in the latest 1.5.1 test builds. In order to prevent this page from being flagged as spam, the individual items below do not link directly to SourceForge reports (this caused several problems with the 1.5 release page).

Major Enhancements http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725076

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Patches http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725076

• 2914475 Use Xerces Grammar Pool to Improve Performance (Milestone 1)

Bug fixes http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725074

• 2916469 @locktitle not respected by preprocessor (Milestone 1)
• 2917809 need empty lib/saxon directory for minimum and standard pkg. (Milestone 1)
• 2925636 Build fails when excluded section contains a table (Milestone 1)
• 2926417 Absolute file: URLs are not resolved. (Milestone 1)
• 2930109 Move meta module pushes content into peer topic. (Milestone 1)
• 1852808 args.css requires dummy file. (Milestone 1)