Important changes since 0.20.3:

• FOP should now work with any JAXP1.1 compliant parser/transformer. It has been successfully tested with Xerces/Xalan, Saxon and JDK1.4 (which includes Crimson and Xalan).
• 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 this time but you still have to download Jimi and copy it to lib/ to get PNG support (no need to build FOP yourself though).
• Building FOP with JDK1.2 does not work. Running is ok except support for additional truetype fonts in AWT Viewer.
• Logging has been changed from LogKit to Avalon's Logger Interface. (see Embedding for details).
• Building under JDK 1.4: You need to add a method in src/org/apache/fop/svg/PDFGraphics2D.java (search for jdk1.4 and remove the comments)
• To decrease the size of the distributions, ant, xml-docs, design-docs and the hyphenation sources have been removed from the binary distribution. Javadocs have been removed from the source distribution (use build javadocs to generate them).
• Documentaion generation is broken in the maintenance branch at the moment (Stylebook needs xerces1). The docs for this release are generated from the trunk.
• For a more detailed list of changes, see the CHANGES file in the root of the FOP distribution.

Important Information:

• This version supports the XSL-FO Version 1.0 W3C Recommendation syntax. So don't forget to update your Stylesheets:

  Just rename the master-name property to master-reference on fo:page-sequence, fo:single-page-master-reference, fo:repeatable-page-master-reference and fo:conditional-page-master-reference.

• JDK 1.2 (or later) is required
• Jimi has been removed for licensing reasons

  If you need PNG support you have to download Jimi, copy it to lib/ and build FOP yourself

• Building under JDK 1.4:

  You need to add a method in src/org/apache/fop/svg/PDFGraphics2D.java (search for jdk1.4 and remove the comments)

• For a more detailed list of changes, see the CHANGES file in the root of the FOP distribution.