Hello everyone,
We are proud to announce the immediate availability of *version 27* of
its industry-leading XML suite of products: *Oxygen XML Editor*,
*Author*, *Developer*, *Web Author*, *Publishing Engine*, *WebHelp*,
*PDF Chemistry*, *Scripting*, and *JSON Editor*.
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.
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.
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.
Oxygen Publishing Engine version 27 comes with additional customization
options for producing WebHelp and PDF output.
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*What's New in Oxygen XML Editor 27*
*Oxygen XML Editor version 27* 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 *Oxygen AI Positron Assistant*, the powerful add-on
designed to enhance productivity and assist writers by providing support
for using AI-generated content within the various Oxygen tools.
The Oxygen AI Positron Assistant now leverages the*Retrieval-Augmented
Generation (RAG)* process to obtain relevant context from the users'
project or from website content that integrates the Oxygen Feedback
search functionality. The /AI Positron Fix/ action now also utilizes the
RAG process to enhance the AI's response and /Function Calls/ can be
referenced in custom actions to give the AI more context information
that leads to more accurate responses.
*Intelligent Agents* 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
/XML Refactoring/ wizard to perform repetitive tasks for DITA content
such as generating alternate text for images, adding missing short
descriptions, and shortening existing short descriptions.
Interface improvements related to the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant
include a new /AI Positron Assistant drop-down widget/ that offers a
very quick and convenient way of accessing useful AI actions. It also
contains a helpful /Rewrite Content/ 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 /Quick Assist/ 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 *Oxygen AI Positron Enterprise Edition* 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.
Several built-in AI development actions have been introduced, including
/Explain Code/, /Chat About Code/, /Document Code/, /Generate Code/, and
/Suggest Refactoring/, 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.
*JSON users* 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.
For *XSLT and XQuery developers*, 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 /XQuery Builder/ view,
and can edit them with complete support for content completion, syntax
highlights, and more.
Additionally, the new *Apply All Default Quick Fix Proposals* 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.
Some of the popular add-ons were updated such as the /Git Client/ and
/Terminology Checker/. As always, this release also provides various
important component updates, API additions, bug fixes, and security
enhancements.
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.
For more information, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html
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*What's New in Oxygen JSON Editor 27*
*Oxygen JSON Editor version 27* 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.
For more information, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/json_editor/whats_new.html
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*What's New in Oxygen XML Scripting 27*
*Oxygen XML Scripting version 27* offers various updates to the Compare
Directories script.
For more information, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_scripting/whats_new.html
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*What's New in Oxygen XML Web Author 27*
*Oxygen XML Web Author version 27* 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 *Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise for
Web Author* 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This release also provides various component updates, bug fixes, and
security enhancements.
For more information, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html
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*What's New in Oxygen Publishing Engine 27*
*Oxygen Publishing Engine version 27* encompasses the improvements and
additions implemented in *Oxygen XML WebHelp* and *Oxygen PDF
Chemistry*. This version adds additional customization options for
producing WebHelp and PDF output, as well as support for PDF signing.
For more information, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html
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*DITA-OT Day 2025*
On the *16th of February, 2025*, Oxygen XML organizes the 9th edition of
the *DITA-OT Day conference*, this time in *Copenhagen, Denmark*. 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).
Find out more details and registration information at
https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2025/dita-ot_day.html
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We hope you will enjoy our latest release of the Oxygen XML suite of
products!
As always, thank you for your support and don't forget that feedback is
welcome!
Best regards,
Alin
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Alin Belu
Oxygen XML Editor
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