This document tries to document in a short and concise way what the immediate future of Apache FOP looks like.
Release History
18 July 2003: Apache FOP 0.20.5
23 November 2005: Apache FOP 0.90alpha1 (first preview release after redesign)
24 December 2005: Apache FOP 0.91beta (many key bugs fixed since the preview released)
28 April 2006: Apache FOP 0.92beta (bugfixes and new features, finalized API, last beta release)
9 January 2007: Apache FOP 0.93 (first production release, bugfixes and new features)
24 August 2007: Apache FOP 0.94
5 August 2008: Apache FOP 0.95
Planned Releases
With the availability of FOP 0.93 we've accomplished a major step forward. We hope we can continue regular releases (probably every 4 to 6 months). There are still a few things left to do for us before the 1.0 release. We can use all the help we can get!
ReleasePlanning contains some more information (may be outdated).
Things being worked on
High priority
Getting feedback from users! (all)
Processing patches!!! (all)
Stabilization and Bugfixing (all)
Merge Tagged PDF support into Trunk
Changing available IPD between pages (VincentHennebert, SimonPepping)
Other tasks
XML Graphics Commons (font and PDF library migration)
Finishing the before-floats implementation (Vincent Hennebert)
Add support for XSL 1.1 fo:folio-prefix and -suffix (AndreasDelmelle)
Rumours
ODF output support
(Committers and contributors, please list here what your current focus is and please keep it up-to-date! Thanks!)
Help wanted!
With the 0.90alpha1 and 0.91beta release we have shown that the project is live and kicking. We still need all the help and support we can get.
More Details
To see what has been accomplished since the last release, please visit: ![[WWW]](/wiki/rightsidebar/img/moin-www.png){kind=small}
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html
(This page may always lag behind some time as we don't update the website too frequently. More current information on recent changes can be seen on http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/status.xml)
For a complete list of tasks for the project, please visit FOPProjectTasks and browse through the list of entries in Bugzilla.
For information on XSL-FO compliance and for complete project documentation please visit the FOP website.