The Acrolinx release notes detail features, improvements, and fixes for Cloud and Standard Stack releases.
Tip
To keep up with the most important changes and updates to the guidance package, visit the Guidance Package Release Notes.
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Clearer display for default Content Profile settings - Empty fields in default Content Profiles are now displayed as empty, making them easier to distinguish from filled-out fields.
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Performance improvements - We've deployed a performance enhancement to reduce processing time for single checks, especially in cases where checks were previously taking extended time to complete.
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Term Browser links consistently use universal term IDs - We’ve improved the term browser so that links to term help pages use the universal term ID. This ensures that links you copy are reliable and work for all users.
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"Check" button now works as expected after login - We've fixed a bug where the platform API returned an error when no style guide was available, causing the Sidebar to display an "unspecific server error"
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Scoring trends report only shows active goals - In the past, you saw every possible goal listed at the bottom of the report, even if that goal wasn’t active. Now, you’ll only see goals that have actual data.
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Tenant-level configurability for the 'More Information' link - We’ve introduced new flexibility to balance security requirements and accessibility. Administrators can choose whether you need additional authentication to open guideline documentation from the Sidebar. This way, you can adapt Acrolinx to fit your organization’s security needs.
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New page featuring the Checking API - You’ll now find a dedicated page for the Checking API in the new Automation section, alongside our pages for Automated solutions. Explore how the Checking API can help you build custom automated workflows, and dive right into the documentation to get started.
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Bulk removal of users - We’ve fixed an issue that prevented you from removing multiple accounts in one go. Previously, you saw a “Not Found” error when trying to remove several accounts through the management UI. Now, bulk removal works as expected.
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Style Guides UI - We’ve fixed a bug where the Save and Expand buttons didn’t stay visible in the Style Guides UI. With this fix, those buttons remain where you need them, improving your overall experience.
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Ampersands no longer truncate style guide names on copy - We’ve resolved an issue that caused newly copied style guides to lose everything after the “&” symbol in their names.
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Increased Reuse reliability - Acrolinx now finds phrases that are similar to your Reuse phrases more reliably and doesn’t miss any phrases from your Reuse sets.
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Aligned User Interface (UI) - The style guides section shines in a new UI to match our Acrolinx design guide. The functionality stays the same.
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Improved navigation - To prevent redundancy and avoid confusion. The menu item Troubleshooting is now non-clickable. This ensures a smoother navigation experience for users with limited access.
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React-based sign-in page - The UI for the sign-in page will now be in React. We're replacing the previous Ember version for a modernized and consistent user experience.
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Restricted access feedback - When you tried to access sections under Settings → Troubleshooting → Check History and your privileges wouldn't allow it you got a blank page. We've fixed this. Now, Acrolinx displays a proper error message.
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Manage terms - We’ve fixed an issue where closing multiple opened term edit pages could result in a 404 error. Now, Acrolinx tracks open instances correctly and prevents access errors.
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Check processing stability - In some cases, canceling a check request prevented new checks from processing. We've fixed this issue. Now, checks run as expected.
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Only active users in the UI - The UI previously showed user accounts that interacted with the Terminology API (for example, through the Term Transfer Tool) as active. These accounts never counted toward the active user limit for checking and therefore won’t appear as active anymore.
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Terminology for variants - When you turned off the advanced setting Flag variants for a term, Acrolinx would find the term only if it exactly matched the term definition. Acrolinx wouldn't find that term written with a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence. With this update, Acrolinx won't count the capitalization at the beginning of a sentence as a term variant anymore.
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Improved AI suggestions - We've extended AI style guide auto-alignment to improve text alignment. You'll get more AI-driven suggestions tailored to specific style guides.
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Scorecard display of sub-issues - We've improved the display of issues with sub-issues in the Scorecard. In some cases, a large empty space was shown between these sub-issues.
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Removed browser sessions page - As we improve Acrolinx and sunset features with less usage, some features won't be in the new UI. We've removed the browser sessions page that was previously under Settings → Browser sessions.
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Reuse section visible - The Reuse menu item and section were visible even when the feature wasn't enabled. We've fixed this. Reuse will only show up if the feature is enabled.
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Check rejection - We've resolved an issue where Acrolinx rejected non-interactive checks due to missing custom fields.
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Stuck checking queue - In rare cases, the check processing pipeline could become unstable. This happened when you canceled a running check while more checks were waiting in the queue. With this fix, canceled checks are now wrapped up properly, so Acrolinx can handle subsequent checks.
We’re introducing new reports to replace the Analytics Dashboards that we’ll sunset in October 2025.
You'll find the first 3 reports under Reporting > Reports. For more details visit Reports Explained and watch What's New with Acrolinx Reports.
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Words checked - This report helps you visualize the sheer number of words Acrolinx has reviewed for your organization. The total number of words checked appears at the top of the page. The bar graph displays the total number of checked words over time per month.
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Scoring trends - Track how your content develops in quality and conformance to your style guides. The graph shows the average score for each goal over time by month. You can select which goals to display according to your needs. The bars indicate the total number of files checked by month.
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Integration usage - Monitor all the integrations that your team is actively using. The names of the integrations appear and the length of the bars show the usage count.
Under Settings > Troubleshooting
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Check history (Scorecards) - A chronological list of Scorecards in a table. It includes the following columns: time of check, content reference, Acrolinx Score, issues, word count, and user. The table includes Scorecards up to the last completed month. To find the Scorecard for a specific check, search by content reference at the top of the page.
Release date: 7 January 2025
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New page for automated checking solutions - Get an overview of our automated checking solutions directly in the Acrolinx UI. Let this list of features like batch check, automated check, and baseline checks inspire you to automate Acrolinx in your own tools or workflows. To get started, go to Automation > Automated solutions.
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New tab for Checking API - Learn more about building your own automated solutions and get quick access to the related documentation. To get more information about our Checking API, go to Automation > Developer tools.
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List of writing integrations available in the UI - We've introduced a new Writing integrations page in the UI to highlight Acrolinx capabilities in supported authoring environments. That way, you can easily discover which tools are available to help you optimize content creation. To learn more, go to Writing tools > Writing integrations.
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Improved roles UI - Previously, you had to open a separate page to edit and create roles. We've added a new pop-up window to simplify role creation and management. The new layout also helps clarify which privileges belong to which roles.
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Improved Content Cube UI – We've consolidated the Collections and Content Library sections into two tabs for easier navigation. Additionally, you can now access all Content Cube settings in a single section.
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Improved Scorecard layout - We've changed the layout of the Scorecard for issues where the highlighted text is identical to the checked sentence. To avoid repetition, the Scorecard now only shows the affected text once.
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Improved behavior for AI suggestions - Sometimes when you clicked "Get Suggestion" or "Get Another Suggestion, the output wasn't unique. You'd often either get the original text or the same suggestion. This is no longer the case.
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You won't get the same suggestion twice in a row, but it's still possible to get the same suggestion after multiple clicks.
For example, if you click "Get Suggestion" and get suggestion "A," you won't get suggestion "A" again if you click "Get Another Suggestion" right after that. But if you click "Get Another Suggestion" for the second time, you might get suggestion "A" again.
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Improved suggestions for "Could you shorten this sentence?" - We've optimized the way that Acrolinx makes suggestions for the guideline "Could you shorten this sentence?" Acrolinx is now more likely to suggest sentences that are shorter than the configured sentence length limit.
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Content profile availability - We've changed the way that we make content profiles available in the UI. By default, you won't see the content profile section in the UI. To request access to the feature, contact Acrolinx Support.
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Submenu navigation - Submenus could be hard to navigate. Sometimes when you moved into a new level of the submenu, the entire menu navigation would close. We've made some adjustments so that the navigation across menus is smoother.
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Limited term browser display - Only the first 10 terms were displayed in the term browser with no option to scroll down. We've fixed this. You can navigate all terms again.
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Import with the Term Transfer Tool - We've fixed a bug that affected the deletion of head terms after the purge phase of the PURGE_AND_REPLACE import mode. Now, Acrolinx deletes terms as expected.
Release date: 30 November 2024
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User management with SSO - With external authentication, all users are added automatically through your user management system. So, you don't need to generate passwords in user management. We've fixed an issue where Acrolinx displayed the Generate Password button on the Users page when SSO was enabled.
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Accurate usernames in reporting - When we converted all usernames to lowercase, it created some duplicates in reports and may have even added some Acrolinx staff users to your user list. We've resolved all duplicates to make sure formatting is consistent for historical entries. We've removed Acrolinx users from your reports for accurate and relevant data visibility.
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Consistency after name change - When you updated the name of a style guide, the new name didn't show up in reporting. Acrolinx now updates the style guide name in the reporting database as soon as someone checks with a renamed style guide. The name that you'll see in reporting matches the changes in style guides.
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Order of domains - The correct sort order didn’t appear in the Add domain option in style guides. This happened when you added a domain to the Words and Phrases goal (now called "Terminology"). The order of domains listed in the Analytics dashboards menu, the term search filter view, and the terminology overview should match the sort order of the domains listed in the categories section. This is fixed — the Acrolinx UI consistently uses the order of the domains as they appear in your categories.
Release date: 9 November 2024
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Improved navigation and layout - We've given parts of Acrolinx a new look and feel to make it easier for you to set up and maintain Acrolinx for your team. This includes the following:
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Reorganized main navigation - You'll now see 5 new sections. These group Acrolinx features based on key tasks. Learn more in The Acrolinx Navigation Explained.
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One, consistent view - Instead of switching between 2 different navigation views, the navigation now stays the same across all sections and pages. Learn more in The Acrolinx Navigation Explained
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New home for notifications - Acrolinx always offered the option to notify users of changes, but we treated this as something highly technical. You may remember Servers > Server Notifications. In reality, this capability allows you to notify your Sidebar users about any changes you make in Acrolinx. We've renamed this to "Company notifications" and added it to the top of the page to make this clearer. Learn more about how to use notifications in Set Up Company Notifications.
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Renamed confusing features - With the reorganization of the main Acrolinx navigation, we also cleaned up our terminology and changed some labels and feature names. These naming updates will also appear in the Sidebar. In all cases, the functionality stays the same.
Some major changes are:
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Targets are now named style guides. For updated documentation, visit the Style Guides - Quick Start.
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The goal Correctness is now called Spelling and Grammar. Check out the updated Spelling and Grammar (formerly Correctness) documentation.
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It was hard to make the connection between the goal Approved Messaging and the Reuse feature. That's why we now call the goal Reuse. We've updated the article Reuse in Style Guides (formerly Approved Messaging) accordingly.
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The Word and Phrases goal is now called Terminology to make clear that you use the goal to add your Terminology to a style guide. We've also updated our documentation on Terminology (formerly Words and Phrases).
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We're still making updates, so you might see some outdated terms in and around the product and documentation.
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Brand-new Reporting API - Are you data driven and looking to measure your content in Acrolinx? The new Reporting API lets you fetch data and build your own custom reports in your preferred (BI) tool. Export data from your Acrolinx instance and create charts in Excel. Sign in to Acrolinx to find out what you can do and how to get started. You can also find this information in the Reporting API documentation.
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AI suggestions in Oxford and Canadian English - In the Sidebar cards, you can now generate AI suggestions in UK Oxford English and Canadian English language variants. Head over to How to Use Get Suggestions in the Sidebar to get started.
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Updated session timeout - The default session timeout for Acrolinx is now 24 hours. If needed, you can request a custom session timeout.
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Content Cube: Acrolinx-built connectors - We've built our own analytics connectors for Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics. Previously, we used a third-party solution. Use the available connectors to import performance metric data into Content Cube. The core capabilities of the product remain unaffected.
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Content profiles managed by Acrolinx only - To make it a bit easier to use Acrolinx, we've removed content profiles from the UI. We’ll now manage all content profile adjustments internally. If you need to make changes to your content profiles, contact Acrolinx Support.
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New term browser privilege - We've added a new privilege for the term browser. It lets you grant users term browser access without giving them full access to the Terminology section. Learn more about term browser privileges in User Privileges.
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Hid pages used by Acrolinx teams - Our internal teams were the primary users of a few of the pages in Acrolinx. To make sure you can focus on the features that are most important to you, we've hidden these pages. They include:
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Analytics database backups
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Content Cube crawling queue, checking queue, and checking issues
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Content Cube governance entitlement
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Content profiles
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License installation
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Can't change and save user information - When you tried to update and save user information, the change wouldn't apply. There was a small bug in our authentication and user management setup. We've fixed this.
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Legacy API tokens not working with newer Acrolinx versions - You may have run into authentication issues when you migrated to a newer Acrolinx version but used API tokens from an older Acrolinx version. This also affected usage of the Term Transfer Tool and parts of Term API. This is fixed — you can now use existing API tokens with newer versions of Acrolinx.
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Checking issue in Markdown files - When you tried to check a Markdown file from the Sidebar, the check would fail when Acrolinx encountered a hard line break (backslash). We've fixed the parsing for this. You can now check Markdown content without issue.
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Reference content included in checks - Checks sometimes included reference content even though they were supposed to exclude it. This is because a transformation issue was interfering with the content profile extraction settings. Your settings for reference content will now work as expected.
Released 25 July 2024
This release comes with an improved sign-in and 2 exciting new features based on generative AI. You can now get AI writing help right in the Sidebar with AI suggestions and the AI Assistant.
To add AI writing help to your license, contact Acrolinx.
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AI Assistant - The AI Assistant helps you create content that's optimized for your style standards! You'll even get an Acrolinx Score for each of the Assistant's responses. Learn how to use the Assistant in the AI Assistant Quick Start.
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AI suggestions in issue cards - With the help of AI, you can now generate suggestions that align with your Target. Quickly review and resolve issues for guidelines that didn't previously offer suggestions. Head over to How to Use Get Suggestions in the Sidebar to get started.
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New sign-in experience - We've changed how our sign-in works to streamline your experience. For now, the sign-in will be in English only. You might also notice some slight UI changes.
Important
No additional action is required if you use a single identity provider (IDP). If you have multiple IDPs, Acrolinx Support will help you reconfigure your authentication.
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Redirect to select a Target - When you sign in to the Sidebar for the first time and haven't selected your preferred Target, you'll be redirected to the Target selection tab.
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This change will take effect when you update to the latest version of Acrolinx.
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Term Browser sign-in - With the new sign-in process, the Term Browser is now part of the dashboard navigation. To access it, sign in to Acrolinx directly and select your preferred Term Browser view from the side panel.
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Users who only have Term Browser privileges won't see any other sections in the navigation. Learn more in our Term Browser Quick Start.
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Acrolinx homepage in modern view - When you sign in to Acrolinx, you'll now land on the modern view of the Acrolinx homepage.
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User information requests - If you use user custom fields to gather user data, we've changed where information requests appear. Your users will now get update requests wherever they sign in to Acrolinx. Learn more in The User Detail View and Add, Edit, and Delete Analytics Custom Fields.
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Term UUID in the Term Browser URL - When you select a term in the Term Browser, the page URL will always correspond with that unique term. The URL also includes a term's UUID instead of the less stable term ID. This means that links to bookmarked terms will continue to work, even after the terminology database has been restored.
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Terminology display of domains and subdomains - Good news for those who manage a complex domain hierarchy with multiple levels of nested subdomains. We've improved the display of the subdomain structure in the Search Filter. This will be visible in all domain filters and selectors in Terminology and the Term Browser. You can now easily select and assign subdomains to a term.
Released 15 April 2024
This service release paves the way for upcoming German grammar and spelling checking capabilities improvements. You might know this as the German GEC model. We've made sure the overall check performance won't slow down with the new model.
Released 19 February 2024
This release comes with a few accessibility improvements and fixes. We've also expanded the Markdown syntax that Acrolinx recognizes.
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Acrolinx recognizes more Markdown syntax - Acrolinx now recognizes text in alerts and definition lists in Markdown.
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Improved screen-reader experience - We've added
langattributes to Reuse to make sure screen readers can recognize replacements that appear in a different language.
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Beta Analytics dashboards - We're testing out some new dashboards in Analytics. You'll see these marked with "Beta Version" in the Analytics section.