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  <item date="2010-07" title="Version 1.4 Released">
    <p>
      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 <a
      href="changes.html#version_1.4">Changes</a> page.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
	</p>
  </item>
  <item date="2008-06-11" title="Version 1.3.1 Released">
    <p>
      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
      <a href="changes.html#version_1.3.1">Changes</a> page.
    </p>
  </item>
  <item date="2008-03-07" title="Version 1.3 Released">
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      Besides that there were a larger number of smaller additions and bugfixes.
    </p>
    <p>
      Support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Java 1.4 or later is required now.
    </p>
  </item>
  <item date="2007-07-21" title="Version 1.2 Released">
    <p>
      This release mainly adds support for CMYK and GRAY color spaces for
      PSGenerator. For details about other fixes, please see the
      <a href="changes.html#version_1.2">Changes</a> page.
    </p>
  </item>
  <item date="2006-12-22" title="Version 1.1 Released">
    <p>
      This release adds an XMP metadata framework and brings improvements for the
      ImageWriter package plus some minor fixes mainly in the PostScript area.
    </p>
  </item>
  <item date="2006-04-17" title="Version 1.0 Released">
    <p>
      This is the first release of Apache XML Graphics Commons. There are currently no
      known issues with the code.
    </p>
  </item>
</news>