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<p>Hello everyone,<br>
<br>
We are incredibly proud to announce the immediate availability of
<b>version 24.1</b> of its industry-leading XML suite of products:
<b>Oxygen XML Editor</b>, <b>Author</b>, <b>Developer, Web
Author, Publishing Engine, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, </b>and<b>
Oxygen XML Scripting</b>!<br>
<br>
This release includes productivity improvements for DITA authors
and publishers, such examples being the possibility to rename
referenced non-DITA resources directly in the DITA Maps Manager
and performance enhancement when opening DITA maps with all of the
referenced content expanded. On the DITA publishing side, the
bundled DITA Open Toolkit was updated to the latest version and
various updates, improvements, and new customization possibilities
were implemented for DITA to WebHelp and CSS-based PDF output.<br>
<br>
The innovative JSON Schema Design mode received a lot of
improvements with a new Palette view that makes it very easy to
build JSON schemas and content completion is now available for
in-place editing within the diagram. Some of the existing JSON
tools were also enhanced.<br>
<br>
Add-ons were a major focus of this release, with many of the most
popular ones receiving lots of updates, including the Git Client,
Batch Documents Converter, OpenAPI Documentation Generator,
OpenAPI Tester, and more, while an interesting new Smart
Autocomplete add-on is also available to help writers create
content by providing text completions.<br>
<br>
With a focus on authoring experience and collaboration, the Oxygen
XML Web Author now features a new Search side-view that makes it
easier to find and replace content, support for @ mentions, and
various security and component updates were also implemented.<br>
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<b>Oxygen XML Editor version 24.1</b> is an incremental release
for the industry's most advanced bundle of tools used by technical
writers, developers, collaborators, and publishers everywhere. The
focus of this release was to expand upon the new features and
improvements that were added in version 24.0.<br>
<br>
An example of a productivity enhancement for DITA authors is that
you can now rename referenced non-DITA resources directly in the
DITA Maps Manager and performance was improved when opening DITA
maps with all of the referenced content expanded. Meanwhile, on
the DITA publishing side, the bundled DITA Open Toolkit was
updated to the latest version and new transformation parameters
make it possible to display media objects with an external link
and to have glossary entries sorted and grouped.<br>
<br>
The innovative JSON Schema Design mode that was recently
introduced in the previous version received a lot of further
enhancements. You can now move and re-order components within the
diagram, a new Palette view makes it very easy to build JSON
schemas by offering quick access to components that can be dragged
and dropped into the diagram, new items were added to the
contextual menu for easier access to various actions, and content
completion is now available for in-place editing within the
diagram.<br>
<br>
Some of the existing JSON tools were also enhanced. You can now
mark properties to be required when using the JSON Schema
Generator tool, the XML to JSON converter tool now offers the
possibility of controlling how empty elements are converted, and
the JSON Schema Documentation generator tool now presents diagrams
in the generated documentation for components from referenced
files and you can choose to include hyperlinks that navigate to
the particular component.<br>
<br>
Add-ons were a major focus of this release, with many of the most
popular ones receiving lots of updates.<br>
<br>
The Git Client add-on continued to be enhanced with the addition
of a revision graph within the History view, various actions were
added while the toolbar was simplified to display the most common
actions, performance was optimized, and some components were
updated.<br>
<br>
The Batch Documents Converter add-on now includes the possibility
of converting content from Atlassian Confluence to DITA, and the
DocBook to DITA conversion offers an option to convert all
sections into individual DITA topics that are referenced in a new
DITA map. It also now provides options for configuring the
mappings between elements for certain types of conversions and
tables are now handled better when converting Markdown to DITA.<br>
<br>
For OpenAPI developers, a new OpenAPI Documentation generator tool
is available to easily generate full documentation for OpenAPI
components in HTML format and a new OpenAPI Tester is available to
inspect OpenAPI request responses and to ensure they work as
expected.<br>
<br>
This release also marks the introduction of an interesting new
Smart Autocomplete add-on that helps writers create content by
providing text completions. It contributes a side-view where you
can choose between a Built-in or OpenAI engine for generating the
proposals for text completion. The Built-in engine analyzes all
XML, HTML, or Markdown files in a project and then offers
completion proposals when editing text content, while the OpenAI
engine uses language models provided by the OpenAI company. Not
only does that engine offer text completion proposals, but it also
contributes various configurable actions that can be used to
transform the selected text in the editor, and it allows you to
create your own fine-tuned language models. Some examples of the
actions that are available to transform the selected text include
grammar corrections, paraphrasing, translating content into other
languages, adding markup, creating ordered lists, and many more.<br>
<br>
XSLT and XQuery transformations and debugging features were
enhanced as the built-in version of Saxon was updated to version
10.6, which is considered to be the most stable and reliable
version of Saxon. Also, a new option was added in the Compile XSL
Stylesheet for Saxon dialog box that allows you to set the default
namespace for unprefixed element names.<br>
<br>
Other improvements include the complete removal of the Apache
Log4j library to prevent security vulnerabilities associated with
it, a new setting to control the initial display mode for tracked
changes in the Author visual editing mode, more Markdown rules
were added, and as usual, this release includes various important
component updates and bug fixes.<br>
<br>
For more information, see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html">https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html</a><br>
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<b>Oxygen XML Scripting</b> provides a variety of functions that
can be scheduled or triggered using a command-line tool on
Windows, Linux, or macOS. The main focus for version 24.1 was
various additions and improvements for the Batch Converter script.<br>
<br>
For details, see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_scripting/whats_new.html">https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_scripting/whats_new.html</a><br>
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<b>Oxygen Publishing Engine version 24.1</b> encompasses all of
the improvements and new customization possibilities implemented
in Oxygen XML WebHelp and Oxygen PDF Chemistry.<br>
<br>
For Oxygen XML WebHelp publishers, this release added some Ant
extension points to allow custom tasks to be executed before and
after various transformation steps, the context-sensitive help
system was optimized, and new transformation parameters were added
to help you customize your WebHelp output.<br>
<br>
Some examples of the improvements and updates that were added to
Oxygen PDF Chemistry include the processor now offering support
for absolute positioning for inline elements and the dependency on
the Log4j library was removed to help prevent possible security
vulnerability issues.<br>
<br>
For more information, see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html">https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html</a><br>
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<b>Version 24.1.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author</b> is the latest
release for the innovative web-based XML authoring tool. This
release expands upon the features that were recently added in
Version 24.0.0 with further improvements to some of those
features, along with several new enhancements. A new Search
side-view makes it easier to find and replace content, @ mentions
are now supported, performance was optimized, new functionality
improves customizations and integrations, and various bugs were
fixed, security was enhanced, and some components were updated.<br>
<br>
For more information, see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html">https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html</a><br>
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We hope you will enjoy our latest release of the Oxygen XML suite
of products!<br>
As always, feedback is welcome!<br>
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<p>Best regards,<br>
Alin</p>
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Alin Belu
Oxygen XML Editor</pre>
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