I am pleased to announce the availability of Release 1.1 of the DITA Open
Toolkit. Release 1.1 is a major release that adds new functions, fulfills
new requirements, makes some function enhancements and fixes bugs over
releases 1.0.2 and before.

In particular, Release 1.1 implements the new OASIS DITA 1.0 standard for
DITA DTDs and Schemas. The line item changes for this release are as
follows:

Functional Enhancements

1. Adaptation to the new OASIS DITA standard
2. Transformation to troff
3. XML catalog support
4. Topicref referring to a nested topic
5. Globalization support
6. Accessibility support
7. Eclipse Content Provider Support
8. Index information in output
9. Mapref function
10. TOC generation for Eclipse Help transformation
11. Helpset generation for Java Help transformation
12. New parameters supported in Java commands
13. New parameters supported in Ant scripts


Bugs Fixed

1. SF bug 1220569: Add XML Schema processing to DITA-OT
2. SF bug 1220644: Prompted ant--image does not link for single topic to
PDF
3. SF bug 1229058: Add schema validation loading file for processing
4. SF bug 1209385: Intermediate dita files drops namespace prefix
declaration
5. SF bug 1204143: FileNotFoundException thrown from moving index
6. SF bug 1200393: generate different names for eclipse toc xml

Enhancements Added

1. SF RFE 1176855: Ant must be run from toolkit directory
2. SF RFE 1183482: Copy pre-existing html to output dir
3. SF RFE 1183490: Provide argument to specify the location of temp dir
4. SF RFE 1201242: override capability

You can read about the new 1.1 features and changes in more detail in the
release notes at the DITA Open Toolkit homepage at
http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net .

The 2.2 meg file you download will uncompress into its own new
directory--it will not overlay previous installations. Windows users, go
for the *bin.zip version.

Regards,
--
Don Day
Project lead for the DITA Open Toolkit