DITA Open Toolkit Version 1.6

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 1.6 will be a new major release based on version 1.2 of the DITA Standard. The 1.6 release will take place as a series of 3 week iterations, with each iteration ending in a Milestone build available for testing.

Test builds of DITA-OT 1.6 may be downloaded here: DITA-OT Latest Test Build. Not sure which distribution package to download? See DITA-OT Packages.

Release dates

• Milestone 1 was released February 10, 2012.
• Milestone 2 was released March 2, 2012.
• Milestone 3 will be released on approximately March 23, 2012.
• Milestone 4 will be released on approximately April 20, 2012.
• Milestone 5 will be released on approximately May 11, 2012.
• Milestone 6 will be released on approximately June 1, 2012.
• The final build of DITA-OT 1.6 will be released on approximately June 22, 2012.

Fixes, patches, and enhancements in 1.6

The sections below contain a cumulative list of fixes, patches, and enhancements in the 1.6 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=725077

• 3453816 Deprecate logException and add logError(String, Throwable) (milestone 1)
• 3458065 PDF2 should fully support core default language (milestone 1)
• 3455512 Add switch to ignore links in XHTML (milestone 1)
• 3468355 Refactor log messages and tasks (milestone 1)
• 3466533 Reduce topic merge memory consumption (milestone 1)
• 3483326 Remove IBM (beta) DITA and BookMap demo support from PDF2 (milestone 1)
• 3486110 Move OT version number to configuration (milestone 2)
• 3475296 Remove obsolete dita-preprocess target (milestone 2)

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

• 3470331 Map references with root fragment are not processed (milestone 1)
• 3475092 Key-based mapref results in preprocessing error (milestone 1)

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

• 3463319 Temp dir with non-ASCII character crashes (milestone 1)
• 3462389 v 1.5.4 fails to create PDF with external topic ref (milestone 1)
• 3477641 [1.5.4]Glosslist no longer visible in Bookmarks (PDF output) (milestone 1)
• 3465136 Incorrect image reference does not checked (milestone 1)
• 3455589 Deprecated property breaks Plus plugins (milestone 1)
• 3471937 Info message about inline flagging not displayed (milestone 1)
• 3469425 NullPointerException when absolute path to image (milestone 1)
• 3470580 PDF2 image references broken with uplevels (milestone 1)
• 3468070 1.5.4 looks for lib dir at current dir instead a ${dita.dir} (milestone 1)
• 3468073 Apache FOP: TOCs with uneven right margin (milestone 1)
• 3476659 Possible collision in File Extension detection mechanism (milestone 1)
• 3475092 Key-based mapref results in preprocessing error (milestone 1)
• 3487705 Choicetable headings not localized in PDF (milestone 2)
• 3487785 Check all places where output streams are used in dost.jar (milestone 2)
• 3488458 Property noCoderef not declared (milestone 2)
• 3477022 HTML handling of *div does not generate @outputclass (milestone 2)
• 3484972 Stylesheet imported multiple times in the hierarchy (milestone 2)
• 3485626 Warning when using @copy-to in reltable (milestone 2)
• 3451621 Revisions on <plentry> use wrong image for nested <pd>
  (milestone 2)
• 3447732 Bug in handling of longdescref (milestone 2)
• 3426920 Image files not copied or referenced correctly for eclipse (milestone 2)