# News

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# 10 January 2004 - New Committers

Welcome Chris Bowditch and Andreas Delmelle!

# 4 January 2004 - New Committer

Welcome Finn Bock!

# 29 November 2003 - New Committer

Welcome Peter Herweg!

# 18 July 2003 FOP 0.20.5 released

Changes since 0.20.4 include:

- Added support for PDF encryption
- Perfomance tuning
- Fixed link hotspot positioning
- Fixed multi-threading issues
- Added support for CCITT Group 4 encoded TIFF files
- Dynamic JAI support
- Added autoselecting portrait/landscape for PCL and PS Renderer
- Added continued-label extension for tables
- Improved AWT Font-measuring/rendering
- Improved marker handling
- Fixed problem with jpegs with icc profile and acrobat reader 5
- Added a fontBaseDir property
- TXTRenderer output encoding
- border-spacing support
- and a lot more bugfixes

See also the full text of the announcement and the release notes.

# 29 June 2003 - New Committer

Welcome Glen Mazza!

# 23 May 2003 - FOP 0.20.5 Release Candidate 3 available

See the full text of the announcement.

# 18 February 2003 - FOP 0.20.5 Release Candidate 2 available

See the full text of the announcement.

# 2 February 2003 - New XML PMC

Jeremias Maerki and Peter B. West are now representing FOP on the XML PMC.

# 28 January 2003 - FOP logo contest

We are looking for a new logo. FOP logo contest is started!

# 23 December 2002 - Official FOP Wiki

See FOP project pages at the ApacheWiki.

# 10 December 2002 - FOP 0.20.5 Release Candidate available

See the full text of the announcement.

# 23 November 2002 - EXLSFO project has been created

The EXSLFO project is a community effort to define functional extensions to thet XSL Formatting Objects specification. See the EXSLFO website for details.

# 22 November 2002 - New Committer

Welcome Victor Mote!

# 9 November 2002 - New Committer

Welcome Oleg Tkachenko!

# 7 July 2002 FOP 0.20.4 released

Changes since 0.20.3 include:

- Support for background-image
- FOP should now work with any JAXP1.1 compliant parser/transformer
- The following JARs have been updated: Xerces to version 2.0.1, Xalan to version 2.3.1 and Batik to version 1.5beta2.
- FOP has been compiled with Jimi support
- Logging has been changed from LogKit to Avalon's Logger Interface
- New hyphenation patterns: turkish, portuguese and czech
- FOP should now work on a EBCDIC machine
- Support for comma-separated values for the font-family property
- Russian and Czech messages for AWTViewer

For details see CHANGES file:
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/CHANGES?rev=1.10.2.21

See also the full text of the announcement.

# 13 June 2002 FOP 0.20.4 Release Candidate available

See the full text of the announcement.

# 19 April 2002 - New Committers

Welcome Jeremias Maerki, Joerg Pietschmann and Peter B. West!

# 11 March 2002 - FOP 0.20.3 released

This is a maintenance release, the first version which supports the XSL-FO Recommendation syntax. See the announcement for more information.