[ANN] Batik 1.7beta1 released

[Cameron McCormack <ca...@apache.org>]

The Apache Batik team is proud to announce the long-awaited release of
Apache Batik version 1.7beta1, a Java-based toolkit for processing SVG.

This is the first release of Batik in approximately two years, and
brings many new features and improvements over version 1.6.  Notable new
features include:

  * DOM Level 3 Core/Events/XPath support
  * Improved WMF transcoder support
  * Near complete SMIL Animation support
  * A few SVG 1.2 features, such as:
      * resource documents
      * shapechange and RenderedBBoxChange events
      * SVGGlobal startMouseCapture/stopMouseCapture methods 
      * handler elements

Batik can be downloaded from here:

  http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/download.cgi

For the full list of improvements and bug fixes over version 1.6, click
on the “release change log” link from that page.

The reasoning behind having a beta release rather than a full release is
that there has been a great deal of changes since version 1.6, and while
we believe the code to be reasonably stable, it would be beneficial to
get feedback from users on any bugs that may have been missed.  We plan
to have a full 1.7 release in a month or two.

If you find any problems, please file bug reports:

  http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/

And for more information, see the Batik project website:

  http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/

Thanks,

Cameron
—for the Apache Batik team

-- 
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Re: [ANN] Batik 1.7beta1 released

[Archie Cobbs <ar...@dellroad.org>]

On 3/29/07, Cameron McCormack <ca...@apache.org> wrote:
> The reasoning behind having a beta release rather than a full release is
> that there has been a great deal of changes since version 1.6, and while
> we believe the code to be reasonably stable, it would be beneficial to
> get feedback from users on any bugs that may have been missed.  We plan
> to have a full 1.7 release in a month or two.
>
> If you find any problems, please file bug reports:
>
>   http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/

FYI,

I happened to file a memory leak bug against 1.6 in bugzilla last
week, before 1.7beta1 was released.  I just ran the bug's test case on
1.7, and 1.7beta1 has this bug also. Very easy to reproduce with the
included torture test (and kindof fun to watch too :-)

  http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41988

Any insights appreciated.

Thanks,
-Archie

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Archie Cobbs      *        CTO, Awarix        *      http://www.awarix.com

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