[oXygen-user] [Ann] Oxygen XML Editor version 23.1, Oxygen Feedback version 1.4, and Oxygen Content Fusion version 4.0 are available!

Thu Mar 4 03:02:17 CST 2021

Hello everyone,

Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud 
to announce the immediate availability of version 23.1 of its 
industry-leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, 
Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and Oxygen 
Publishing Engine, along with version 1.4 of the Oxygen Feedback comment 
management platform, and version 4.0 of the Oxygen Content Fusion 
collaboration platform.

This release introduces new features such as concurrent editing and 
reviewing in Oxygen Content Fusion for streamlining your team's 
collaboration process, the ability to ignore validation problems using 
Quick Fix actions to filter errors and warnings, and the new block-level 
comments functionality in Oxygen Feedback allows your users to add and 
manage comments contextually at a specific location within the WebHelp 
page. Also, an updated Oxygen Styles Basket, a free web-based visual 
tool, helps you fine-tune the CSS file that is used to customize PDF or 
WebHelp output by picking and mixing pre-defined aspects from galleries.

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Version 23.1 of Oxygen XML Editor expands upon the substantial list of 
features that were recently added in Version 23.0 with further 
improvements, along with various brand new enhancements, fixes, and updates.

Dealing with errors and warnings is easier now with the new 
functionality that allows you to ignore validation problems using Quick 
Fix actions available in various places where the validation issues are 
presented.

DITA users benefit from reduced publishing times as the result of an 
update to the DITA-OT engine to version 3.6, a new refactoring action 
that generates unique IDs for specified elements, and the DITA to PDF 
transformation can now display SVG syntax diagrams in the PDF output.

On the development side, the JSON Schema Documentation Generator tool 
was enhanced with new filtering options, syntax highlights, and options 
for splitting the output into multiple files or showing the location of 
the source schema. A specialized YAML editor was added with various 
editing features including automatic validation, batch validation, 
syntax highlights, automatic indenting, tools for converting between 
YAML and JSON, and more. Various updates and improvements were also 
integrated for users working with XSLT, XQuery, HTML, and CSS.

The SharePoint integration in Oxygen (available in the Enterprise 
edition only) was redesigned to use the SharePoint REST API v2 to offer 
authentication using the OAuth protocol. This means that you now have 
access to a new SharePoint Online type of connection, the various UI 
components that display the connection details (SharePoint Browser View, 
Data Source Explorer View, and the Browse for Remote File mechanism in 
the Open URL dialog box) were redesigned for better consistency and 
productivity, and quick actions were added in the SharePoint Browser 
View to make it easier to connect.

Some of the most popular Oxygen add-ons continued to be improved. The 
Git Client add-on is even more robust with additional actions and 
options, as well as various UI and performance enhancements. Various new 
conversion possibilities were added in the Batch Converter add-on (e.g. 
convert between JSON and YAML or convert multiple Markdown/HTML headings 
into DITA maps with referenced topics), while the DITA References view 
add-on and the Oxygen Emmet Plugin received various improvements, and 
the XSpec Helper view add-on was updated.

Other highlights for this version include improvements to the shortcuts, 
as they can now be assigned to show side-views contributed by plugins, 
editor variables can now be resolved in project resources created from a 
project template, and as always, this release includes new API methods, 
various bug fixes, and component updates.

For more information, see: 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html

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Some functionality available in Oxygen was made available for automation 
outside of Oxygen (for example, in a continuous integration server) 
using a separate Oxygen Scripting license.

Starting with version 23.1, you can take advantage of new command-line 
scripts for comparing files or directories and for executing XML 
refactoring operations. Also, the Batch Converter script now supports 
converting between JSON and YAML and various arguments were added to 
existing scripts to offer even more configuration options.

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Version 23.1 of Oxygen Publishing Engine bundles the latest Oxygen PDF 
Chemistry and Oxygen XML WebHelp together with the DITA-OT used by Oxygen.

Oxygen PDF Chemistry received further enhancements, such as more details 
about warning and error messages to assist with debugging, additional 
support was included for some requested CSS properties along with the 
addition of new parameters to help fine-tune customizations, and the 
memory footprint was optimized to provide better performance.

Oxygen XML WebHelp offers new transformation parameters and HTML 
fragment placeholder parameters to open up a myriad of additional 
possibilities for customizing the look and style of your output, 
redesigned renderings of the various types of DITA <note> elements, the 
ability to add a component in your WebHelp output that links to a PDF 
resource, and various bug fixes and component updates.

For more information, see: 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html

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Version 1.4 of Oxygen Feedback brings you more exciting features for the 
modern comment management platform that provides a simple and efficient 
way for your community to interact and offer feedback.

The most interesting new feature added in this version is the ability 
for your users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific 
location within the output page where block elements appear, without 
having to scroll to the comments area at bottom of the page. The 
Block-Level Comments feature forms a flexible review solution when 
coupled with the Oxygen XML WebHelp and the Oxygen XML Editor/Author 
integration through the Feedback Comments Manager plugin, which makes it 
easy to locate the exact source content referenced by a particular 
comment and streamlines the process of making changes to the source 
document in response to the provided comments.

Both Cloud and Enterprise editions also include other productivity 
improvements, bug fixes, and customization options.

For more information about the Oxygen Feedback Cloud edition, see: 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback_cloud/whats_new.html

For more information about the Oxygen Feedback Enterprise edition, see: 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback_enterprise/whats_new.html

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Version 23.1.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author offers some enhancements to 
features added in the past few major releases of the dynamic web-based 
XML authoring tool.

Some of the highlights include the Outline Pane that now displays the 
entire content of a DITA map when it is opened with all of the 
referenced topics expanded/editable in one document, optimized 
performance of the visual editor for Concurrent Editing sessions, while 
on the customization side, CSS variables are now supported and the 
feature that displays a DITA map with all of the referenced topic 
content expanded/editable in one document can now be enabled for 
Bitbucket integrations.

This release also includes new API methods, various bug fixes, and 
component updates.

For more information, see: 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html

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Version 4.0 of Oxygen Content Fusion, the innovative collaboration tool 
that is designed to improve any documentation review process, brings you 
the ability for collaborative teams to edit and review content 
concurrently. This means that you and your colleagues can edit and 
review the same document simultaneously in the visual editor and each 
user can see the changes in real time.

Some of the other interesting new features and improvements added in 
this version include a new dynamic floating toolbar that gives you 
easier access to the most common editing and styling actions, the option 
to change the UI language to English, French, German, Dutch, Japanese, 
or Chinese, and the preservation of styling when you copy content in the 
visual editor and paste it into an external application.

For more information, see: 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html

We hope you will enjoy our latest release of the Oxygen XML suite of 
products!
As always, any feedback on it is welcomed.

Best regards!

-- 
Alin Belu
Oxygen XML Editor