DITA Open Toolkit Version 1.5.3

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. 

DITA-OT 1.5.3 will be a point release based on version 1.2 of the DITA Standard. The 1.5.3 release will take place as a series of 3 week iterations, with each iteration ending in a Milestone build available for testing. Note that release dates below are approximate.

• Anticipated release date: End of June, 2011
• Supports: DITA 1.0 through 1.2
• Download at: (no builds currently available)
• Which package is for me? See DITA-OT Packages.

Test build history and plans

• Milestone 1 development will begin December 20. The first milestone will focus on resolving fixes and integrating many patches submitted by users. Milestone 1 was released on January 14, 2011.
• Milestone 2 will be two weeks longer than usual, due to holidays for the lead development and test teams. Milestone 2 will be available on approximately February 18. This milestone will contain the following items, among others:
  • Bug 3155848 xml decl in ditaval file not closed properly in docs
    
• Milestone 3 will be released on approximately March 11.
• Milestone 4 will be released on approximately April 1.
• Milestone 4 will be released on approximately April 22.
• Milestone 5 will be released on approximately May 13.
• Milestone 6 will be released on approximately June 3.
• Milestone 7 will be the final build, as the Stable Release on SourceForge. It will be released on approximately June 24.
• Additional planning information will be added once 1.5.3 development is underway.

Fixes, patches, and enhancements in 1.5.3

The sections below contain a cumulative list of fixes, patches, and enhancements in the 1.5.3 release. In order to prevent this page from being flagged as spam, individual items do not link directly to SourceForge reports. Each item is followed by a note to indicate which test build first contained the update.

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

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Other Enhancements

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

• 3123507 String concat in map2plugin (Milestone 1)
• 3110513 HTML XSLT uses complex casts (Milestone 1)
• 3097677 Add property to reload XHTML stylesheets (Milestone 1)
• 3106659 Added topicgroup elements to tocjs (Milestone 1)
• 3109051 RestoreEntity duplicates functionality (Milestone 1)
• 3107755 Configure templates with integrator properties (Milestone 1)
• 3142967 IndexTermReader leaves tab characters in terms (Milestone 1)
• 3140543 Add missing Commons Codec JAR into compile classpath for buildPackage.xml (Milestone 1)
• 3087664 Clean plugin configuration parser (Milestone 1)

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

• 3114411 keyref links don't work for HTML Help (Milestone 1)
• 3126578 Chunking Issues in DITA 1.5.1 (Milestone 1)
• 3109616 More Antenna House Path Problems (Milestone 1)