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| title: "Apache Doxia Site Tools Version 1.7 Released" |
| date: '2016-02-15T07:10:12+00:00' |
| permalink: apache-maven-doxia-site-tools-1-7-0 |
| categories: |
| - Maven-Doxia-Site-Tools |
| - Maven-Components |
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| The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the |
| [Doxia Site Tools](https://maven.apache.org/doxia/doxia-sitetools/) Version 1.7, |
| Released |
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| Doxia Sitetools is an extension of base Doxia component that generates either |
| HTML sites, consisting of decoration and content that was generated by Doxia, |
| or documents like RTF or PDF. |
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| [Release Notes - Maven Doxia base - Version 1.7](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12317230&version=12330561&styleName=Text) |
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| You can download the [appropriate sources etc. from the download page.][download] |
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| Release Notes - Maven Doxia Sitetools - Version 1.7 |
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| Bugs: |
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| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-93](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-93) - request-scoped default Velocity Tools are not accessible |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-107](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-107) - Fix link to plexus page in the doxia-site- renderer web page |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-130](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-130) - Doxia document not rendered if ".<extension>" in filename |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-145](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-145) - when called from Maven 3, SiteTool.getParentProject() should just return project.getParent() |
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| Improvements: |
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| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-82](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-82) - Decoration model body/footer type mismatch |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-94](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-94) - add plexus container to Velocity context |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-99](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-99) - Add typed context variable for creationDate |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-100](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-100) - Deprecate all context properties which are duplicate or already available through Velocity tools |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-102](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-102) - Allow multiple extensions for given format |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-103](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-103) - Don't create outputFile in case of an external report |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-105](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-105) - add Markdown to dependencies |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-118](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-118) - Separate inheritance and interpolation |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-120](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-120) - Print artifactId only in modules menu when module has no name |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-122](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-122) - improve API regarding locales |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-126](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-126) - don't copy resources when rendering documents but copy all resources in 1 call |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-132](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-132) - do not override existing content with template when copyResources() |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-136](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-136) - improve "Could not parse date: ..., ignoring!" message with document reference |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-147](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-147) - link breadcrumbs to index.html instead of directory (like menus) |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-155](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-155) - Change type of decoration model's body/head element to string |
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| New Features: |
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| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-133](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-133) - for Velocity processed Doxia files (*.extension.vm), add an option to dump generated markup (= *.extension) |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-149](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-149) - Create a skin descriptor to contain metadata about the skin |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-150](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-150) - create a "isLink(href)" function for use in skins |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-154](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-154) - Add encoding to skin descriptor to define the encoding of site.vm |
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| Tasks: |
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| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-98](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-98) - Decoration model's Modello doc point to a statically versioned schema file |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-115](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-115) - move doxia-integration-tools from Doxia Tools to Doxia Sitetools |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-123](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-123) - remove long deprecated SiteTool API |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-125](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-125) - getDecorationModel() change siteDirectory from String to File |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-131](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-131) - don't add Template-specific variables in general document Velocity context |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-134](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-134) - Remove special handling of date format in DefaultSiteRenderer |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-135](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-135) - Make input source file encoding default to platform encoding |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-137](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-137) - add documentation on how site is rendered, merging documents and decoration |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-138](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-138) - remove skinFile parameter from createContextForTemplate |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-151](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-151) - Upgrade default skin to Default Skin 1.1 |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-153](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-153) - Deprecate direct template usage in favor of skin only |
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| Wishes: |
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| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-92](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-92) - Upgrade Velocity from 1.5 to 1.7 |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-124](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-124) - streamline SiteTools API: hide methods that are only used internally |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-139](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-139) - don't render Apache license from default template |
| * [DOXIASITETOOLS-146](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-146) - don't translate APT source comments into output comments |
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| Enjoy, |
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| -The Apache Maven team |
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| [download]: http://maven.apache.org/doxia/doxia-sitetools/download.cgi |
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