The 1.7 release fixes a number of bugs brought to light with the 1.7beta1 release, and includes a few new features:

• xml:id support (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/).
• ElementTraversal support (http://www.w3.org/TR/ElementTraversal/).
• Enhanced DOM Viewer window, contributed from Ivan Andjelkovic, a Google Summer of Code student.
• Official maven artifacts (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/xmlgraphics/).
• A separate Mac OS X Squiggle disk image distribution.

Batik can be downloaded from here:

    http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/download.cgi

For the full list of improvements and bug fixes since version 1.7beta1, click on the "release change log" link from that page.

If you find any problems, please file bug reports:

    http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/

And for more information, see the Batik project website:

    http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/

Thanks,

Cameron
--for the Apache Batik team