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06 October 2003 - Apache Forrest 0.5.1 Released

The Forrest team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Forrest 0.5.1. The release is available at
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/forrest/

Blurb
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Forrest (http://xml.apache.org/forrest/) is an XML standards-oriented project documentation framework built on Apache Cocoon, providing XSLT stylesheets and schemas, images and other resources. Forrest uses these to render the XML source content into a website via command-line, robot (see http://forrestbot.cocoondev.org/), or a dynamic web application.

Status
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Forrest 0.5.1 is a bugfix release over 0.5. Most notably, it comes with an updated Cocoon (2.1.2) which fixes a bug in the command-line where certain pages in a site weren't rendered (FOR-66). Other bugfixes include:

1. Added obfuscate-mail-links skinconf.xml option, on by default (FOR-67)
2. Fix forrest-site tables bug that broke Opera (FOR-65)
3. Fixed URLs for comma-separated bug keys in status.xml
4. In skinconf.xml, made project-description optional to keep compatibility with 0.4.
5. forrest.antproxy.xml script now properly fails when Cocoon fails
6. Fix bugs in forrest.bat|sh scripts encountered when used in odd environments (perl and Win9x). (FOR-47, FOR-48)
7. The 'forrest' command no longer sources /etc/antrc and ~/.antrc, which solves problems on some *nix distributions.

The full list of changes for 0.5 and 0.5.1 is viewable at:

http://xml.apache.org/forrest/changes.html

For current 0.4 users, an Upgrade Guide to 0.5 is available at:

http://xml.apache.org/forrest/upgrading_05.html

Please send feedback to forrest-dev@xml.apache.org (after subscribing).

The Apache Forrest team