Diff for DITA-OT Release 1.6

Fri, 2012-03-16 13:11 by robanderWed, 2012-06-27 14:47 by robander

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DITA-OT 1.6 will be a new major release based on version 1.2 of the DITA
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DITA-OT 1.6 is a new major release based on version 1.2 of the DITA
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Standard. The 1.6 release will take place as a series of 3 week iterations,
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Standard. The 1.6 release will took place as a series of development iterations,
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with each iteration ending in a Milestone build available for testing.The final 1.6 biuld was released June 27, 2012.
 
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Test builds of DITA-OT 1.6 may be downloaded here: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/files/DITA-OT%20Latest%20Test%20Build/" target="_blank">DITA-OT Latest Test Build</a>. Not sure which distribution package to download? See <a rel="nofollow" href="/freelinking/DITA-OT%2520Packages" class="freelinking">DITA-OT
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The final build of DITA-OT 1.6 may be downloaded here: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/files/DITA-OT%20Stable%20Release/DITA%20Open%20Toolkit%201.6/" target="_blank">DITA-OT Latest Stable Build</a>. Not sure which distribution package to download? See <a rel="nofollow" href="/freelinking/DITA-OT%2520Packages" class="freelinking">DITA-OT
 
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<li>Milestone 1 was released February 10, 2012.</li>
 
<li>Milestone 1 was released February 10, 2012.</li>
 
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<li>The final build of DITA-OT 1.6 was released on June 27, 2012.</li>
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<li>The final build of DITA-OT 1.6 will be released on approximately June 22, 2012.</li>
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<h2>Release highlights</h2>
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<h2>Fixes, patches, and enhancements in 1.6</h2>
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<h3>Performance improvements</h3>
 
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The sections below contain a cumulative list of fixes, patches, and
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DITA-OT 1.6 contains
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enhancements in the 1.6 release. In order to prevent this page from
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several updates that combine for significant performance improvements
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for large documents. For example, building the DITA 1.2 Language Specification
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to XHTML takes just over 1/3 of the time as with the previous release
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(tests show an improvement of 288%).
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<li class="li">Every message has been reviewed, and nearly every message has
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<li class="li">Messages are now documented in the DITA-OT User Guide. The new
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including potential remedies and links to helpful information.</li>
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Of particular interest to developers,
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much of the deprecated code in the toolkit (some of it unused for
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5+ years) has been removed. As a result, much of the code is cleaner,
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faster, and easier to customize. For example, the cleanup of PDF code
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allowed us to remove the alternate *_1.0.xsl stylesheets.
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<h2>All fixes, patches, and enhancements in 1.6 <br />
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A complete list of fixes, patches, and new features in the 1.6 release can be found at the GitHub issues page used to track development: <a href="https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues?milestone=1&amp;state=closed" target="_blank">Details of each update in release 1.6</a>
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To jump directly to the release notes, which contains a list of updates and additional information on backwards compatibility with previous releases, check the documentation under <a href="http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/1.6/userguide.html" target="_blank">User Guide &gt; Release notes</a>.
 
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<h3>Major Enhancements from the RFE tracker <a rel="nofollow" href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&amp;atid=725077" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&amp;atid=725077</a></h3>
  
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<li class="li">3453816 Deprecate logException and add logError(String, Throwable) (milestone 1)</li>
  
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<li class="li">3458065 PDF2 should fully support core default language (milestone 1)</li>
  
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<li>3470331 Map references with root fragment are not processed (milestone 1)</li>
  
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<h3>Bug fixes <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&amp;atid=725074" title="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&amp;atid=725074">http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&amp;atid=725074</a></h3>
  
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<li class="li">3463319 Temp dir with non-ASCII character crashes (milestone 1)</li>
  
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<li class="li">3462389 v 1.5.4 fails to create PDF with external topic ref (milestone 1)</li>
  
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<li class="li">3477641 [1.5.4]Glosslist no longer visible in Bookmarks (PDF output) (milestone 1)</li>
  
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<li class="li">3465136 Incorrect image reference does not checked (milestone 1)</li>
  
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<li class="li">3455589 Deprecated property breaks Plus plugins (milestone 1)</li>
  
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<li class="li">3471937 Info message about inline flagging not displayed (milestone 1)</li>
  
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<li class="li">3468073 Apache FOP: TOCs with uneven right margin (milestone 1)</li>
  
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<li class="li">3487705 Choicetable headings not localized in PDF (milestone 2)</li>
  
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<li class="li">3487785 Check all places where output streams are used in dost.jar (milestone 2)</li>
  
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<li class="li">3477022 HTML handling of *div does not generate @outputclass (milestone 2)</li>
  
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Current revision:

DITA-OT Release 1.6

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 is a new major release based on version 1.2 of the DITA Standard. The 1.6 release will took place as a series of development iterations, with each iteration ending in a Milestone build available for testing.The final 1.6 biuld was released June 27, 2012.

The final build of DITA-OT 1.6 may be downloaded here: DITA-OT Latest Stable 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 was released on March 24, 2012.
  • Milestone 4 was released on May 8, 2012.
  • Milestone 5 was released on June 5, 2012.
  • The final build of DITA-OT 1.6 was released on June 27, 2012.

Release highlights

Performance improvements

DITA-OT 1.6 contains several updates that combine for significant performance improvements for large documents. For example, building the DITA 1.2 Language Specification to XHTML takes just over 1/3 of the time as with the previous release (tests show an improvement of 288%).

Error message overhaul

In the recent DITA-OT usage survey, we asked for specific problems encountered when running the DITA-OT. The most frequent response was difficulty understanding and responding to error messages. The latest release addresses this in two ways:

  1. Every message has been reviewed, and nearly every message has been revised for clarification.
  2. Messages are now documented in the DITA-OT User Guide. The new documentation contains additional details about nearly every message, including potential remedies and links to helpful information.

Code cleanup

Of particular interest to developers, much of the deprecated code in the toolkit (some of it unused for 5+ years) has been removed. As a result, much of the code is cleaner, faster, and easier to customize. For example, the cleanup of PDF code allowed us to remove the alternate *_1.0.xsl stylesheets.

All fixes, patches, and enhancements in 1.6

A complete list of fixes, patches, and new features in the 1.6 release can be found at the GitHub issues page used to track development: Details of each update in release 1.6

To jump directly to the release notes, which contains a list of updates and additional information on backwards compatibility with previous releases, check the documentation under User Guide > Release notes.

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