This release consists primarily of bug fixes, improved code practices, and improved coverage of CCITTFax Group 3 image formats. For details, please see Changes.

This release adds the option to generate smaller PostScript files, support for the AdobeStandardCyrillic encoding, RefinedImageFlavor, TexturePaint support for PSGraphics2D (PostScript tiling patterns), improvements to the XMP framework, optimization for PostScript state handling in (E)PSDocumentGraphics2D, and more. In addition it contains a number of bug fixes. For details, please see the Changes page.

We are pleased to note that many new features were contributed from outside the team of committers. Such broader interest ensures the healthy further development of the project.

This release is mostly a bugfix release for the image loading framework that has been introduced in version 1.3. For details, please see the Changes page.

The most important addition in this release is an image loading framework which supports all sorts of different image formats (bitmap and vector) and is highly extensible.

Besides that there were a larger number of smaller additions and bugfixes.

Support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Java 1.4 or later is required now.

This release mainly adds support for CMYK and GRAY color spaces for PSGenerator. For details about other fixes, please see the Changes page.

This release adds an XMP metadata framework and brings improvements for the ImageWriter package plus some minor fixes mainly in the PostScript area.

This is the first release of Apache XML Graphics Commons. There are currently no known issues with the code.