DITA Open Toolkit 1.2 Beta Released!

DITA open toolkit Release 1.2 beta is a beta release for testing before the formal release 1.2. The following are the changes in release 1.2 beta. There might be modification of the deliverables in the formal release 1.2

Important Change
This release offers new error handling and logging system.
If you invoke your transformation by using Java command line where new error handling and logging system is mandatory, you need to set the CLASSPATH Environment Variable to include dost.jar .
* If you invoke your transformation using an Ant script, you need to do one more step after the setting above. That is adding a parameter in your command to invoke an ant script.
For example, use ant -f ant\sample_xhtml.xml -logger org.dita.dost.log.DITAOTBuildLogger instead of ant -f ant\sample_xhtml.xml to start a transformation defined in ant script file ant\sample_xhtml.xml.

[7 Function Enhancements]
1. New plugin archiecture
2. Transformation to wordrtf
3. HTML to DITA migration tool
4. Problem determination and log analysis
5. Open DITA User Guide for conditional processing
6. Include the OASIS version langref
7. Document adapt to OASIS DITA 1.0.1 DTDs

[7 SF Bugs Fixed]
1. SF Bug 1304545 Some folders were copied to DITA-OT's root directory
2. SF Bug 1328689 Stylesheet links in HTML emitted with local filesystem paths
3. SF Bug 1333481 Mapref function does not work for maps in another directory
4. SF Bug 1344486 java.io.EOFException thrown out when reading ditaval file.
5. SF Bug 1347669 Path Spec. in nested DITA maps
6. SF Bug 1357139 filtering behavior doesn't conform to spec
7. SF Bug 1358619 The property.temp file gets cleaned out by default
8. SF Bug 1363055 Shortdesc disappears when optional body is removed
9. SF Bug 1366843 XRefs do not generate proper links in FO/PDF
10. SF Bug 1367636 dita2fo-elems.xsl has strange line breaks

[ SF RFEs Added]
1. SF RFE 1296133 Enable related-links in PDF output
2. SF RFE 1326377 Add a /dbg or /debug flag for diagnostic info
3. SF RFE 1331727 Toolkit need to run on JDK 1.5.x(only support to run under Sun JDK 1.5 with saxon in normal case)
4. SF RFE 1357054 Be more friendly towards relative directories
5. SF RFE 1357906 Provide a default output directory
6. SF RFE 1368073 Enable plugins for DITA open toolkit