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Acrolinx for Oxygen XML Editor and Author - Release Notes

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Look at our release notes to learn more about the development of Acrolinx for Oxygen XML Editor and Author.

Version 2.2 and Subsequent Service Releases

Summary

Version 2.2.3

Released 29 September 2023

This is a small service release to address a bug.

Platform Support

We recommend that you use:

  • Acrolinx Platform version 2022.05 or later to highlight referenced content

    • If you want to check referenced content, but don’t need the to highlight the issues themselves, you can use Acrolinx Platform version 2021.12.1 or later.

  • 23.x, 24.x, 25.x (Standalone and Eclipse)

  • Eclipse version 4.19 and above

Bug Fixes

  • Check Selection - We've fixed a bug where the Check Selection feature wasn’t available.

Version 2.2.2

Released 11 September 2023

This is a small service release to address a bug.

Platform Support

We recommend that you use:

  • Acrolinx Platform version 2022.05 or later to highlight referenced content

    • If you want to check referenced content, but don’t need the to highlight the issues themselves, you can use Acrolinx Platform version 2021.12.1 or later.

  • 23.x, 24.x, 25.x (Standalone and Eclipse)

  • Eclipse version 4.19 and above

Bug Fixes

  • Batch check got stuck when checking DITAmap files - This could happen when the content contained escaped XML tags.

Version 2.2.1

Released 7 June 2023

This is a large service release to address a handful of bugs.

Platform Support

We recommend that you use:

  • Acrolinx Platform version 2022.05 or later to highlight referenced content

    • If you want to check referenced content, but don’t need Acrolinx to highlight the issues themselves, you can use Acrolinx Platform version 2021.12.1 or later.

  • 23.x, 24.x, 25.x (Standalone and Eclipse)

  • Eclipse version 4.19 and above

Bug Fixes

  • Acrolinx Couldn’t Replace Some Special Characters - You can now replace symbols and umlauts from the Sidebar.

  • Sidebar Batch Check Didn’t Work in Third-Party CMSs - Checking with the Batch Check Sidebar works as expected.

  • Acrolinx URL Inserted into Document - No more mysterious Acrolinx URLs in your content when you sign in after copying and pasting your Acrolinx URL.

  • Blank Sidebar When Opened in Oxygen - Fixed! The Sidebar won't disappear on you anymore.

Version 2.2

Released 28 December 2022

This is a small service release to update our libraries and officially add support for Oxygen 25.

Platform Support

Acrolinx for Oxygen requires:

  • Acrolinx Platform version 2022.05 or later to highlight referenced content

    • If you want to check referenced content, but don’t care about highlighting the issues themselves, you’ll need Acrolinx Platform version 2021.12.1 or later.

  • 23.x, 24.x, 25.x (Standalone and Eclipse)

  • Eclipse version 4.19 and above

Dropped Support

We have dropped support for the following:

  • Oxygen 22.x

Improvements
Added Support for Oxygen 25

Another year is around the corner, which means a new Oxygen version. We have officially added support for this new version, Oxygen 25.

Regular Maintenance

We updated our libraries.

Version 2.1 ( 27 May 2022)

Summary

In our Acrolinx for Oxygen 2.0 release, we made it possible to check referenced content within a DITA topic. With this release, we've enhanced it a little more. We're excited to introduce issue highlighting in referenced content! You'll also get a small UX improvement and a bug fix.

Platform Support

Acrolinx for Oxygen requires:

  • To highlight referenced content, you'll need Acrolinx Platform version 2022.05 or later.

    If you want to check referenced content, but don’t care about highlighting the issues themselves, you’ll need Acrolinx Platform version 2021.12.1 or later.

  • 22.x, 23.x, 24.x (Standalone and Eclipse)

  • Eclipse version 4.19 and above

Improvements

Issues Highlighted in Referenced Content

Say goodbye 👋 to manually finding issues within DITA topics. Acrolinx now highlights these issues for you. When you click on an issue card in the Sidebar, Acrolinx will highlight and scroll to that issue in your content.

Improved Sidebar UX

Whether you're an experienced user or you're just getting started with the Sidebar, a little extra UX help never hurts. We've added a new message to the Oxygen Sidebar that reminds you to open a document or file before you run a check.

Added Support for XInclude

We can now check more of your content! We've added support for XInclude elements, which means that you can use Acrolinx to check, highlight, and replace issues in XInclude elements.

For this to work, you'll need the right Content Profile. XInclude is an external reference that isn’t editable with the Acrolinx Sidebar. That’s why XInclude references should be marked as READ_ONLY. Most Content Profiles include the setting for XInclude by default. If needed, you can set this yourself for Acrolinx for Oxygen 2.1.

To make sure you can check XInclude, do the following:

  1. In the Acrolinx Dashboard, navigate to Guidance Settings > Content Profiles.

  2. Find the DITA or XML Content Profile and click on it.

  3. Go to Context and select READ_ONLY. (If the context READ_ONLY doesn’t exist, you need to create it. See the Content Profiles Reference Guide for more information.)

  4. Click the plus icon and add ACROLINX_EXTERNAL_CONTENT under READ_ONLY.

  5. Under Extraction, add XInclude to the table as an empty element

Bug Fixes

Blank Sidebar in Unsupported Oxygen Versions

In some cases, you would see a blank Acrolinx Sidebar when an unsupported version of Oxygen was used. This was confusing as it because it looked like a bug that wouldn't let you check your content. We’ve fixed this issue so that the Sidebar can't be installed on an unsupported version of Oxygen.

Important for Oxygen Eclipse Users

Some Windows Instances Require WebView 2

Danger

This is important if you're on Windows and use Oxygen Eclipse. It doesn't apply to Windows 11.

Windows users that aren't on Windows 11 and use Acrolinx for Oxygen Eclipse need to download and install WebView 2 from Microsoft. This is because we've updated the Sidebar to use Microsoft Edge Chromium instead of Internet Explorer.

You can download WebView 2 from the page WebView2 - Microsoft Edge Developer. Linux and macOS users don't need WebView 2.