Changes since 0.20.3 include:

• Support for background-image
• FOP should now work with any JAXP1.1 compliant parser/transformer
• 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
• Logging has been changed from LogKit to Avalon's Logger Interface
• New hyphenation patterns: turkish, portuguese and czech
• FOP should now work on a EBCDIC machine
• Support for comma-separated values for the font-family property
• Russian and Czech messages for AWTViewer

See also the full text of the announcement.

Welcome Jeremias Maerki, Joerg Pietschmann and Peter B. West!

This is a maintenance release, the first version which supports the XSL-FO Recommendation syntax. See the announcement for more information.