DITA Open Toolkit 2.1 Release Notes

Requirements

DITA Open Toolkit Release 2.1 requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK), version 7 or later.

Resolved Issues

The following items are included in DITA Open Toolkit Release 2.1. Issue numbers correspond to the tracking number in the GitHub issues tracker.

Feature Requests

Milestone 1 includes the following new features and changes:

  • 1179 Added HTML generation extension for body content
  • 1687 More recognized default resource extensions in the plugins base
  • 1703 Link to missing DITAVAL file should show a relevant error code in the console
  • 1799 Move configuration options to runtime properties
  • 1800 Remove old Java command line tool
  • 1803 Use Commons IO
  • 1832 Remove support for args.odt.img.embed
  • 1837 Remove keydef processing from XHTML rendering code
  • 1847 Extension-point for custom DITA parsers

Bugs

Milestone 1 provides fixes for the following bugs:

  • 1415 Filtering doesn't support default for rev flagging
  • 1840 Keyref processing doesn't use only first keyword or term
  • 1849 Some XSLT XPaths do not properly use the @class attribute to select elems

Maintenance Release 2.0.1

Note:

DITA Open Toolkit Release 2.1 Milestone 1 also includes the following bug fixes that were released earlier this year with maintenance version 2.0.1.

  • #1744 copy-to attribute not processed correctly (error DOTX008E) in XHTML transtype on a topicref included in a child map
  • #1790 FO: Xref processing does not handle case of key with no remote resource or link text
  • #1806 IDs are not preserved on <bodydiv> element
  • #1808 DITA-OT 2.0: PDF bookmarks (TOC, index) not in language indicated in source files
  • #1810 DITA-OT 2.0: typo in PDF-plugin, xsl/fo/toc.xsl ("boookmap")
  • #1811 Filtering doesn't support @deliveryTarget
  • #1813 Mappull step fails with nested concept
  • #1814 Task with links and nested task fails in XHTML
  • #1815 Convert String to double Error message when we try to generate pdf
  • #1826 OT 2.0: Map with subject scheme and non-below map fails