CSIRO have released the latest version of the CSIRO SVG Toolkit. Improvements to this open source Java implementation include:

• Support for the latest SVG working draft (June 29th 2000)
• Support for SVG Fonts
• Various bug fixes

A full feature list is available from CSIRO's web site.

The GNU plotting utilities have been upgraded to include SVG support in the latest version, 2.4.1.

Announcing the latest version of the C/C++ libraries, Robert S. Maier wrote:

The centerpiece of the package (about 90% of the code) is GNU libplot, a 2-D device-independent vector graphics library. "Device-independent" means that its API is independent of the graphics format to be exported. It can export many vector formats, including WebCGM, PS/EPS, PCL 5, HP-GL/2, and Adobe Illustrator. As of this release, it can also export SVG and PNG.

Maier also invited feedback on the quality of the SVG implementation (currently only supporting the 3 March draft). He concluded with a rather neat example of libplot's capabilities:

The plotutils package includes a sample command-line program, GNU graph, which does XY plotting. You can do, for example:

echo 0 0 1 1 2 0 | graph -T svg > graph.svg