The Apache ODF Toolkit(Incubating) team is pleased to announce the 
release of 0.6-incubating. This is our second Apache release.

The Apache ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic 
creation, scanning and manipulation of Open Document Format (ISO/IEC 
26300 == ODF) documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime 
manipulation of heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the 
ODF Toolkit is lightweight and ideal for server use.

The most notable changes of release 0.6-incubating are support for ODF 
1.2, ODF RDF Metadata and Document encryption support. It also includes 
a variety of enhancements to the API as well as bug fixes.

A full list of changes is available in the change log[1]. People 
interested should also follow the mailing list[2] to track the progress 
of the project.

The ODF Toolkit source release as well as the pre-built binary 
deployment packages are listed in the downloads page[3]. This release is 
not distributed in the Maven repositories. Version 0.6.1-incubating of 
the project will be released soon and will be available via the usual 
Maven repositories.

[1] 
http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/odftoolkit/CHANGES-0.6-incubating.txt.
[2] http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/mailing-lists.html.
[3] http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/downloads.html

-- 
Florian Hopf
Freelance Software Developer

http://blog.florian-hopf.de