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<p>Hello everyone,<br>
<br>
We are proud to announce the immediate availability of <b>version
27</b> of its industry-leading XML suite of products: <b>Oxygen
XML Editor</b>, <b>Author</b>, <b>Developer</b>, <b>Web
Author</b>, <b>Publishing Engine</b>, <b>WebHelp</b>, <b>PDF
Chemistry</b>, <b>Scripting</b>, and <b>JSON Editor</b>.<br>
<br>
The newest release for Oxygen XML Editor highlights significant
advancements in AI capabilities, particularly through the enhanced
Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin, which now integrates
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for more relevant and
context-aware responses. New Intelligent Agents streamline DITA
XML topic management, while a wide range of other AI-driven
actions help authors automate tedious authoring tasks such as
generating image descriptions, resolving comments, and refining
XML structures. Additionally, AI-powered development actions have
been introduced for tasks such as code explanation, code
generation, documentation, and refactoring.<br>
<br>
The upgraded JSON editing tools grant developers the ability to
transform JSON content using XQuery processing, advanced
customization options, and streamlined code templates. The update
also includes expanded support for XQuery 4.0 and XSLT 4.0 with
the upgraded Saxon 12.5 processor. Furthermore, enhancements were
implemented for YAML, HTML, Markdown, and some of our popular
add-ons, along with essential security updates.<br>
<br>
For Oxygen XML Web Author version 27, in addition to the new
features for the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin, users can
enjoy improved review and editing capabilities, support for
Markdown and other non-XML files in the file comparison and merge
tool, and experimental support for editing DITA maps in a
specialized tree editor. This release also includes important
component updates, bug fixes, and security enhancements for the
innovative web-based XML authoring tool.<br>
<br>
Oxygen Publishing Engine version 27 comes with additional
customization options for producing WebHelp and PDF output.<br>
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<b>What's New in Oxygen XML Editor 27</b><br>
<br>
<b>Oxygen XML Editor version 27</b> is the latest major release of
the ultimate toolkit for content authors, developers,
collaborators, and publishers. This release is packed with
innovative new features and improvements for the <b>Oxygen AI
Positron Assistant</b>, the powerful add-on designed to enhance
productivity and assist writers by providing support for using
AI-generated content within the various Oxygen tools.<br>
<br>
The Oxygen AI Positron Assistant now leverages the<b>
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)</b> process to obtain
relevant context from the users' project or from website content
that integrates the Oxygen Feedback search functionality. The <i>AI
Positron Fix</i> action now also utilizes the RAG process to
enhance the AI's response and <i>Function Calls</i> can be
referenced in custom actions to give the AI more context
information that leads to more accurate responses.<br>
<br>
<b>Intelligent Agents</b> is a new category of actions for the
Oxygen AI Positron Assistant, designed to streamline DITA XML
topic management. These intelligent agents go beyond simple
content manipulation, offering advanced capabilities to save
files, add references, and access a wide range of functions for
contextual understanding and project structure modification. A
variety of other common AI actions for DITA authoring were
implemented, such as actions to proofread content, resolve
comments, improve the XML structure, reuse components, generate
documentation drafts, and more. An AI category was also added to
the <i>XML Refactoring</i> wizard to perform repetitive tasks for
DITA content such as generating alternate text for images, adding
missing short descriptions, and shortening existing short
descriptions.<br>
<br>
Interface improvements related to the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant
include a new <i>AI Positron Assistant drop-down widget</i> that
offers a very quick and convenient way of accessing useful AI
actions. It also contains a helpful <i>Rewrite Content</i> action
that opens a floating input box where users can provide the AI
with instructions on how to rewrite selected content. Custom
user-defined AI actions can be configured to appear as <i>Quick
Assist</i> fixes in the editor. Support was also added for
Vision models, allowing the AI to read and interpret images. Users
have new AI models to choose from, including GPT-4o-mini, GPT-4o,
and GPT-4 Turbo, and the <b>Oxygen AI Positron Enterprise Edition</b>
provides the ability to use a specific AI engine (OpenAI,
Microsoft Azure OpenAI, or Anthropic Claude). Other miscellaneous
improvements and security enhancements were implemented for the AI
functionality as well.<br>
<br>
Several built-in AI development actions have been introduced,
including <i>Explain Code</i>, <i>Chat About Code</i>, <i>Document
Code</i>, <i>Generate Code</i>, and <i>Suggest Refactoring</i>,
which can be used to enhance coding efficiency and documentation.
Additionally, users can define custom AI actions for various
document types such as XSLT, Schematron, XSD, CSS, XQuery, JSON,
and JSON Schema.<br>
<br>
<b>JSON users</b> can now transform their content using XQuery
processing and the XQuery Builder view can be used to compose
complex XQuery expressions to be executed over JSON documents.
Some indentation improvements were implemented, such as the
ability to indent a particular selection of content rather than
the whole document, content inserted by the Content Completion
Assistant is automatically indented, as is pasted JSON content.
Some customization options were also added and code templates were
improved to streamline the JSON editing process.<br>
<br>
For <b>XSLT and XQuery developers</b>, the built-in Saxon
processor used for transformations and debugging was updated to
version 12.5, including support to handle Saxon's latest extension
functions. Support was also added for XQuery 4.0, which means
users can run transformation scenarios for version 4.0 documents
from the editor or the <i>XQuery Builder</i> view, and can edit
them with complete support for content completion, syntax
highlights, and more.<br>
<br>
Additionally, the new <b>Apply All Default Quick Fix Proposals</b>
tool makes it possible to apply all proposed fixes on multiple
resources at once. New features and enhancements have been added
for working with YAML, HTML, and Markdown documents, as well as
for handling file comparisons. Various other miscellaneous
productivity improvements are also included.<br>
<br>
Some of the popular add-ons were updated such as the <i>Git
Client</i> and <i>Terminology Checker</i>. As always, this
release also provides various important component updates, API
additions, bug fixes, and security enhancements.<br>
<br>
Moreover, Syncro Soft has earned the ISO/IEC 27001:2022
certification, demonstrating a strong commitment to implementing
top-tier information security practices and ensuring that the
users' data is protected to the highest standards.<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>What's New in Oxygen JSON Editor 27</b><br>
<br>
<b>Oxygen JSON Editor version 27</b> includes all the JSON-related
features from Oxygen XML Editor and this new version improves the
AI functionality, introduces XQuery processing over JSON files,
support for applying all default Quick Fix proposals, and more.<br>
<br>
For more information, see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/json_editor/whats_new.html">https://www.oxygenxml.com/json_editor/whats_new.html</a><br>
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<b>What's New in Oxygen XML Scripting 27</b><br>
<br>
<b>Oxygen XML Scripting version 27</b> offers various updates to
the Compare Directories script.<br>
<br>
For more information, 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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<br>
<b>What's New in Oxygen XML Web Author 27</b><br>
<br>
<b>Oxygen XML Web Author version 27</b> is the latest major
release of the innovative web-based XML authoring tool. This
release is packed with innovative new AI features and improvements
that have been implemented in recent updates to the <b>Oxygen AI
Positron Assistant Enterprise for Web Author</b> plugin, the
powerful productivity-enhancing tool that provides users with the
ability to use a specific AI engine (OpenAI, Microsoft Azure
OpenAI, or Anthropic Claude) and help them leverage AI-generated
content. Users can also look forward to new features for the file
comparison and merge tool, support to make DITA maps editable in a
specialized tree editor, some general editing improvements, and
various security enhancements.<br>
<br>
The AI Positron Assistant now uses a Retrieval-Augmented
Generation (RAG) process to generate more meaningful responses by
obtaining relevant context from the current document or a
documentation site that utilizes Oxygen Feedback's search
functionality.<br>
<br>
A variety of new actions designed to streamline DITA authoring
were implemented for the AI Positron Assistant. These DITA-related
actions help to improve the structure of documents, proofread
content, resolve comments located within topics, generate
alternate text for images, expand a draft of a DITA topic, or to
split large DITA topics into smaller modules.<br>
<br>
Other miscellaneous additions for the AI Positron Assistant
include the ability for the users to filter the list of AI actions
to exclude those that are not considered useful. Favorite prompts
now can also be stored for easy future use. A user-friendly UI
button makes it easy to edit messages before sending them to the
AI. Additionally, the document type and any content selected in
the main editor area is automatically passed as context for the
conversation, making responses more relevant.<br>
<br>
General editing improvements bring the ability to highlight
document content using predefined colors that are accessible from
a toolbar drop-down menu, and the Outline pane is now editable
within concurrent editing sessions (previously, it was displayed
as read-only). For Git integrations, a new specialized editor was
added to enable the editing of plain text.<br>
<br>
The file comparison tool now supports comparisons of Markdown and
other non-XML files and the merge tool now allows users to manage
comments and tracked changes with contextual actions.<br>
<br>
The option to disable or relax the Content Security Policy is now
also available. Furthermore, new URL parameters have been
introduced to control how excluded content is presented or to
enable text and Markdown editing.<br>
<br>
This release also provides various component updates, bug fixes,
and security enhancements.<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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<b>What's New in Oxygen Publishing Engine 27</b><br>
<br>
<b>Oxygen Publishing Engine version 27</b> encompasses the
improvements and additions implemented in <b>Oxygen XML WebHelp</b>
and <b>Oxygen PDF Chemistry</b>. This version adds additional
customization options for producing WebHelp and PDF output, as
well as support for PDF signing.<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>DITA-OT Day 2025</b><br>
<br>
On the <b>16th of February, 2025</b>, Oxygen XML organizes the
9th edition of the <b>DITA-OT Day conference</b>, this time in <b>Copenhagen,
Denmark</b>. This is a full day, in-person event dedicated to
the DITA Open Toolkit project, which is the reference DITA
implementation and the core of almost all DITA-based publishing
solutions (Oxygen Publishing Engine included).<br>
<br>
Find out more details and registration information at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2025/dita-ot_day.html">https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2025/dita-ot_day.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, thank you for your support and don't forget that
feedback is welcome!<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Alin<br>
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Alin Belu
Oxygen XML Editor</pre>
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