RELEASE NOTES
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-Version 0.95beta
-================
+Version 0.95
+============
-This is a pre-version of the third production grade release of the new FOP
-codebase. It contains many bug fixes and new features. See below for details.
+This is a production grade release of Apache FOP.
+It contains many bug fixes and new features. See below for details.
Compliance
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The long list of changes in this and earlier releases is available at
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html.
+Changes since Version 0.95beta
+------------------------------
+Please refer to the list of changes on the web:
+http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html
Version 0.94
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<!--/release-->
<release version="0.95" date="TBD">
+ <notes>
+ <section>
+ <title>Notes</title>
+ <p>
+ Besides the important changes listed below, the most important areas with
+ improvements in this release are:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ Many bugfixes in tables, plus some new features (full support for keeps and
+ breaks, border conditionality, background on columns and header/footer/body)
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Improvements and bugfixes for font handling and font
+ auto-detection/-registration.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Performance improvements and memory optimizations for the property handling
+ in the FO tree.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+ Please note that with this release, we've dropped support for Java 1.3.
+ FOP will, from now on, <strong>require at least Java 1.4</strong>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There have been a few changes in tables that make FOP both more strict and more
+ compliant to the Recommendation:
+ <ul>
+ <li>XSL-FO 1.1 explicitly states that a row-spanning fo:table-cell element is not
+ allowed to span further than its enclosing fo:table-header/footer/body element
+ (see bottom of <link href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#fo_table">section
+ 6.7.3</link>). From now on FOP will give a validation error if a document
+ contains such an erroneous cell.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>If an fo:table element contains explicit fo:table-column children, then those
+ elements set the total number of columns in the table. This means that a
+ validation error will now occur if a row contains more cells than available
+ columns. This change allows to improve performance, since the rendering of the
+ table may start as soon as the table-column elements have been parsed.</p>
+ <p>If more flexibility is needed, then the fo:table-column elements may be just
+ omitted. The final number of columns will then be set by the row that has the
+ most cells.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The image libraries Jimi and JAI are no longer needed (and used) for image loading.
+ Instead we rely completely on the Image I/O API that has been introduced with
+ Java 1.4. If you still need support for bitmap image formats that do not work
+ out-of-the-box, we recommend adding
+ <link href="http://jai-imageio.dev.java.net/">JAI Image I/O Tools</link>
+ (an Image I/O compatible image codec package) to the classpath. JAI is still required
+ for building the FOP distribution but it is optional for normal builds and at run-time.
+ </p>
+ <note>
+ This final 0.95 release contains all the
+ <a href="changes_0.95beta.html">changes made for Apache FOP 0.95beta</a>.
+ </note>
+ </section>
+ </notes>
<action context="Renderers" dev="JM" type="fix">
Fixed a color selection problem which occurred after an image has been painted
through the Graphics2DAdapter in PDF output.
Fixed two bugs concerning resolution handling with SVG images and their
conversion to bitmaps for RTF output.
</action>
- <action context="Code" dev="JM" type="fix" fixes-bug="44887">
+ <action context="Code" dev="JM" type="fix" fixes-bug="44887" importance="high">
Fixed potential multi-threading problem concerning the use of DecimalFormat.
</action>
<action context="Layout" dev="JM" type="fix" fixes-bug="44412">
<action context="Renderers" dev="JM" type="fix">
Fixed resolution handling inside AWT preview dialog.
</action>
- <action context="Renderers" dev="JM" type="fix">
+ <action context="Renderers" dev="JM" type="fix" importance="high">
Fixed positioning of absolutely positioned block-containers in multi-column documents.
</action>
- <action context="Renderers" dev="JM" type="fix">
+ <action context="Renderers" dev="JM" type="fix" importance="high">
Fixed rendering of fixed block-containers in AFP output.
</action>
- <action context="Layout" dev="VH" type="fix" fixes-bug="41621">
+ <action context="Layout" dev="VH" type="fix" fixes-bug="41621" importance="high">
Various bugfixes for table layout.
</action>
<action context="Renderers" dev="JM" type="fix">