Build Notes for Version 20.1 of Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer

Build ID: 2020010914

Wed, 14 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Security: Fixed an issue where unnecessary confirmation was required for different file write operations.

DITA/Validate and Check for Completeness: When checking the existence of remote non-DITA resources, the user is no longer asked to confirm the connections to remote hosts.

Build ID: 2019120217

Wed, 4 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

Critical/Security: Author/Developer/Editor: Security improvements were added to avoid XXE vulnerabilities or customization induced vulnerabilities in Oxygen XML suite of products. For more info see SYNC-2019-111401

macOS: Oxygen is now compatible with macOS Catalina (10.15). The OS no longer reports the "libjnidispatch.jnilib cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified." warning message.

Build ID: 2018122403

Fri, 28 Dec 2018 12:00:00 GMT

Security: Improved the security model, some of third party processor features were turned off.

Project: Batch publishing XSL-FO files to PDF did not work.

Project: Improved security when loading projects that contain options that change the application's interface and behavior.

macOS/DITA: On macOS with retina display, images with keyrefs to key-scoped keys located in DITA topics were not displayed in the Author editing mode.

Elements view: Fixed a ConcurrentModificationException error that happened when using a RelaxNG-based schema and content completion filters.

Linux/Eclipse plugin/Author: The Author page does not hang anymore when using the "colspecs" button form-control to expand/collapse the column specifications for a table.

Eclipse plugin: Resolved a significant performance issue caused by the security manager.

Eclipse Plugin: Fixed a NullPointerException error that happened when validating a document from a virtual file system.

Build ID: 2018101517

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 09:00:00 GMT

Diff Files: XSLT Stylesheets and XML Schemas opened in the editor were incorrectly considered as plain XML documents after the same files were previously opened and compared in the Diff tool.

XPath/XSLT: Content completion no longer presented possible XPath functions when invoked inside an XPath function's parameters list.

XML Refactoring: Fixed an issue due to which some remote resources were incorrectly presented as modified in the Preview dialog box.

Schematron: Report unused variables when a Schematron document is validated using Saxon-EE.

Offline Help: Links to related YouTube videos were not included in the offline JavaHelp version of the user manual.

Author: The states of framework-specific toolbar actions were not properly updated after using the "ReloadContentOperation" Author operation.

Author/XInclude: The Author visual editing mode did not properly render a MathML equation included using the XInclude mechanism.

Author/DITA: Copy/Paste table cells from one simple table specialization to another properly computes inserted cell names when pasting between cells of target table.

Author/DITA: When using the specific action to replace content references with content, if some of the links inside the referenced content contained the "&" character, the action produced an invalid XML document.

DITA Maps Manager: The conversion of a Markdown file to a DITA topic, performed from the DITA Maps Manager view, did not preserve the original content encoding (e.g. Japanese characters were not preserved).

DITA to PDF (CSS): Fixed misalignment between chapter numbers and descriptions in table of contents when using "Deep Numbering" techniques.

Eclipse Plug-in/Help: The Help from the Oxygen Eclipse Plug-in was unusable.

Eclipse Plug-in: Annotations (for example XPath and Spell check highlights) no longer appeared.

Eclipse/Oxygen XML Author: Navigation to specific option pages from various contextual menu actions works again.

Logging: Fixed an issue where enabling full logging in the application sometimes caused an unhandled error when opening XML documents.

WebHelp Feedback Engine: Resolved an issue due to which the email template file was not loaded when the web server is hosted on a Linux server.

WebHelp Responsive with Feedback: If no email template is found, the default one will be used. The default language is English.

WebHelp Responsive with Feedback: Fixed issues related with the password recovery email confirmation page.

WebHelp Responsive: The font used for the descriptions presented in the tiles of the front page was changed to make the text more readable.

WebHelp Responsive: Generate Topic TOC only if having at least two items.

WebHelp Responsive/Search: More than 10 results were provided on each search results page except the first one. Also, "Previous" and "Next" buttons jumped to the wrong search results page.

WebHelp Responsive: Fixed tiles title layout issue that made titles to not properly fit in the tile.

Build ID: 2018080903

Thu, 13 Aug 2018 09:00:00 GMT

macOS: macOS distribution (.dmg) can now be installed on macOS 10.14 (Mojave).

Validation Xerces: Fixed invalid XPointer resolution error that occurred sometimes when editing XML documents with XIncluded sections using XPointer.

SVN/Compare Editor: Changes were not marked properly in the SVN Compare Editor when the left editor content was saved after being modified.

DITA Maps Manager/Refactoring: Fixed a problem where the Move and Rename actions did not update the references in other topics and in submaps for XSD-based resources.

DITA Master Files: Moving or renaming XSD-based resources (such as topics) did not update any references to those resources.

DITA Reusable Components: Fixed a Null Pointer Exception error that appeared in the Components tab when reusable components were stored in a DITA Composite warehouse.

Eclipse: Custom colors used for the Author comments and insertions and colors used for the rendered profiling attributes could not be properly set in the Preferences page using the "Apply and Close" button.

Eclipse: When using monitors with High DPI resolution on Windows, selecting text in the Author visual editing mode flickered and the characters seemed to jump and overlap each other.

Eclipse/DITA Maps Manager/Refactoring: A destination directory could not be chosen when trying to move a topic using the action available in the DITA Maps Manager view.

Eclipse/DITA Maps Manager: References to other resources are now updated when moving a topic to another folder.

WebHelp Responsive: Resolve an accessibility issue in WebHelp Feedback system.

WebHelp Responsive: Resolve an issue when the content on the page overlaps a tooltip of a hovered item from the sticky Publication TOC.

WebHelp Responsive: Fix and issue with image/icon popup.

Build ID: 2018061313

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:30:00 GMT