Released: Feb 12, 2020

Updates in V22

Features

DITA Authoring

• New DITA Perspective - Provides default side-views and other UI components that are optimal for working with DITA projects.
• Media Resources Presented in DITA Reusable Components View - The DITA Reusable Components view contains a new Media tab that displays all image, audio, and video resources used in the documentation project. You can easily insert references to these resources within a document by using double-click, drag and drop, or contextual menu actions.
• Rename...

Released: Dec 2, 2019

Updates in V21.1 Build ID: 2019120214

Fixes

• Critical/Security: Security improvements were added to avoid XXE vulnerabilities or customization induced vulnerabilities in Oxygen XML suite of products.
• DITA/Transformations: Fixed a processor detection issue when the css.processor.path.chemistry parameter is not set in the DITA Map PDF - based on HTML5 & CSS transformation scenario.
• Editor Variables: Fixed a NullPointerException error that happened when canceling the dialog box triggered by the $ask() editor variable to input the...

Released: Oct 15, 2019

Updates in V21.1 Build ID: 2019101513

Features

• 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.

Fixes

• Author: XQueryUpdateOperation failed to identify the context node when the node had a namespace that was mapped to a prefix in the Oxygen preferences.
• Fixed a NullPointerException error that happened when trying to resolve editor variables while executing a transformation scenario, if the XSpec plugin...

Released: May 23, 2019

Updates in V21.1

Features

DITA Authoring

• View the Hierarchy or Dependencies of References in DITA Resources - The Hierarchy/Dependencies view can now be used for DITA resources to display the hierarchy or dependencies for DITA resources. It will show direct references for DITA resources, such as maps and topics, as well as media resources that are directly referenced in topics.
• Quickly Search for Similar Topics - A new action (Find Similar Topics) is available in the DITA menu that can be used to quickly find...

Released: Feb 22, 2019

Updates in V21.0

Features

DITA Authoring

• Improvements to DITA Reusable Components View - The DITA Reusable Components view received more improvements. The default display mode for the Keys tab now has a tiles style of layout and additional filtering and sorting options were added to help you search for keys. Also, a new action was added in the Settings menu of the Components tab to force a re-indexing of the reusables.
• Quick Fix to Correct Capitalization in Paths - A quick fix was added that can be used to...

Released: Jun 15, 2018

Updates in V20.1

Features

Collaboration

• Add-On for the New Content Fusion Collaboration Platform - A free add-on is now available that connects Oxygen XML Editor/Author to an Oxygen Content Fusion server. Once installed, a task manager view is available in Oxygen XML Editor/Author where you can create review tasks that will include documents to be uploaded for review. You can share a URL to such a task with your collaborators, who will be able to review or contribute to that content in their browser. Finally...

Released: Mar 16, 2018

Updates in V20

Features

• DITA
  • Report Unreferenced Key Definitions - You can now select an option in the DITA Map Validate and Check for Completeness dialog box to report key definitions that are not referenced.
  • Report Unreferenced Reusable Elements - You can now select an option in the DITA Map Validate and Check for Completeness to report potential reusable elements that are not referenced anywhere in the context map. These are elements that have an ID attribute and are defined in topics marked as resource...

Released: Sep 29, 2017

Updates in V19.1

Features

• New Components Tab in the DITA Reusable Components View - A new Components tab has been added to the DITA Reusable Components view. It collects reusable components (elements with an ID) from all topics within your root map that are marked as resource only and provides a very quick and simple way to insert content references in your documents. The available components list also includes ways to filter and search for particular reusable components.
• DITA Table Validation Improvements...

Released: Apr 5, 2017

Updates in 19

Features

• DITA
  • Quickly Create Multiple Topics at Once - The new Fast Create Topics feature allows you to quickly create multiple new topics at once and you can specify their hierarchical structure within the DITA map at the time of creation. A common use-case for this feature is when you need to insert a new chapter or section with multiple topics and you have the structure and titles planned out in advance.
  • DITA Reusable Components View - The DITA Reusable Components view collects all of the...

Released: Oct 18, 2016

Updates in 18.1

Features

• New Form Controls for Rendering and Playing Video and Audio Media - Three powerful new form controls were added that allow you to render and play media in Author mode.
• Convert Paragraphs to List Items and Change List Item Type - When editing DITA, DocBook, XHTML, or TEI documents, you can easily convert selected paragraphs to list items by using the various Insert List Item actions on the toolbar.
• Convert Selected Content to a Table - When editing DITA, DocBook, XHTML, or TEI documents...