[oXygen-user] [ANN] Oxygen XML Editor version 24.1 is now available!

[Alin Belu]

Hello everyone,

We are incredibly proud to announce the immediate availability of 
*version 24.1* of its industry-leading XML suite of products: *Oxygen 
XML Editor*, *Author*, *Developer, Web Author, Publishing Engine, 
WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, *and*Oxygen XML Scripting*!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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*Oxygen XML Editor version 24.1* 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.

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.

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.

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.

Add-ons were a major focus of this release, with many of the most 
popular ones receiving lots of updates.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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*Oxygen XML Scripting* 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.

For details, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_scripting/whats_new.html

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*Oxygen Publishing Engine version 24.1* encompasses all of the 
improvements and new customization possibilities implemented in Oxygen 
XML WebHelp and Oxygen PDF Chemistry.

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.

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.

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

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*Version 24.1.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author* 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.

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

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We hope you will enjoy our latest release of the Oxygen XML suite of 
products!
As always, feedback is welcome!

Best regards,
Alin

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Alin Belu
Oxygen XML Editor
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