DAPS 3.1.0 has been released!

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• New features:

  • Allow converting AsciiDoc books with multiple parts into a
    DocBook set (--adocset/ADOC_SET="yes")
  • Remove dm:docmanager during unpack-lockdrop when
    --remove-dm is used
  • Added support for DITAA diagrams as an image format (must be
    added as an external file) (Support for DITAA images #540)
  • Allow using {daps-adoc-attribute} from AsciiDoc sources to
    add a list of all AsciiDoc attributes used by DAPS to the
    output (AsciiDoc/Attributes capture in rendered output #573)
  • Added daps validate options --validate-ids (checks
    whether IDs match a basic SEO-compatible set of characters) and
    --validate-images (checks for missing and duplicated images)
  • Renamed daps checklink to daps linkcheck for consistency
    with daps spellcheck and daps stylecheck
  • Renamed PDFNAME to OUTPUTNAME DC file option to clarify
    its purpose

• Removed features:

  • Removed support for the Xfig (.fig), PDF, and EPS image
    formats
  • Removed support for the asciidoc tool, DAPS now only supports
    AsciiDoctor
  • Removed support for --xsltparam which has been replaced by
    --stringparam
  • Removed --css=none option of daps epub
  • Removed daps-auto.pl which has been replaced by
    daps-autobuild
  • Removed all support for Python 2 dependencies

• Bug fixes:

  • When AsciiDoctor outputs a warning, DAPS will now fail,
    avoiding XML issues that would crop up later (this only works
    if AsciiDoctor >= 1.5.7 is used)
  • Find unresolvable AsciiDoc attribute references (such as
    {reference}) and error out rather than adding them to the
    output
  • When converting AsciiDoc, always unset the imagesdir
    attribute, so DAPS can mandate its own images directory
  • On successive DAPS runs, always convert AsciiDoc files to XML
    again
  • Improved default IDs generated by AsciiDoctor, to avoid leading
    underscores in IDs (AsciiDoctor generates _ids_with_underscores #520)
  • Improved AsciiDoc postprocess.xsl clean-up stylesheet:
    • Rewrite @contentwidth to @width
    • Improved display of article titles
    • Fixed validation of generated abstract elements
    • Improved workarounds for authorinitials, othername,
      lineage
    • Output AsciiDoc <<reference, title>> construct as
      title (<xref linkend="reference"/>) (same for links)
    • Improved handling of slightly misused AsciiDoc block/
      example syntax that was previously converted to
      GeekoDoc-incompatible formalpara elements
  • Fixed updating of profiled files when an entity or the DC
    file of the source has changed
  • Only use AsciiDoctor's --failure-level if the version of
    AsciiDoctor is new enough to support it
  • Allowed use of AsciiDoc attributes defined on command line
    and in DC file at the same time
  • Made DAPS's default set of AsciiDoc attributes overridable
  • Internally handle --param the same as --stringparam (When same stringparam is defined on both the command line and within the DC file, build breaks #589)
  • Made sure that both index.html and [ROOTID].html are
    generated during HTML builds
  • Reworked getentityname.py (getentityname.py fails on DB4 files without entity declaration #556)
  • Restored compatibility with Novdoc profiling stylesheet
    references
  • Avoid stumbling over empty hrefs in XIncludes during validation
  • Fixed issue where DC file parser would concatenate rather
    than overwrite values
  • Fixed issue where DC file parser would not correctly recognize
    last line of a DC file if it did not end in a newline character
    (Missing newline character at end of DC file leads to last line of DC file being ignored #553)
  • Fixed issue where default entities like — could not
    be found
  • Fixed unpack-locdrop runs that failed because file lists
    contained spaces rather than line breaks
  • Use PROFOS value during locdrop
  • Fixed daps html --nostatic build failure resulting from
    identical files error
  • Fixed GNU Make 4.3 += operator compatibility
  • Added compatibility with Inkscape 1.0 command-line options
  • Set initial memory for FOP
  • Fixed path to Avalon Framework (bsc#1175214)
  • Fixed LibreOffice Draw executable name for Debian (The ./configure script does not recognixe libreoffice-draw on Debian buster #564)
  • Improved error message when MAIN file is missing (Create better error message when MAIN file does not exist #494)
  • Improved error message displayed when ROOTID does not exist in
    the document (Misleading error message "ID defined multiple times" when it's not defined #546)
  • Show FOP warnings when running with -vv or higher verbosity
  • Suppressed error messages about missing xml:base during
    daps linkcheck (Confusing messages about missing xml:base from Adoc checklink #558)
  • Improved message output of daps-xmlwellformed
  • Improved Git updating flow in daps-autobuild

• Documentation:

  • Added man pages for daps-xmlformat and daps-check-deps
    (Missing man pages for programs #491)
  • Added documentation for generating a DocBook set from an
    AsciiDoc book
  • Fixed typos and other minor issues throughout the documentation

• Packaging changes:

  • Only require LibreOffice Draw when building on Arm and x86
    architectures but not on IBM Power/IBM Z
  • Cleaned up TAR archives generated by GitHub (Source tarball contains git/travis stuff that should not be there #489)
  • Removed dependency on xml-commons-jaxp-1.3-apis, use generic
    xml-apis
  • Do not make libexec XSL files executable (Installing the contents of libexec makes a non-script file executable #492)

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This discussion was created from the release DAPS 3.1.0 stable release.