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[ANN] Oxygen Feedback version 5.2 is now available - improving AI integration and administrative controls!
by Alin Belu 28 Apr '25

28 Apr '25

Hello, We are proud to announce the release of *Oxygen Feedback* version*5.2* for both Cloud and Enterprise editions! *Oxygen Feedback 5.2* is the newest release for the powerful all-in-one solution designed to enhance community engagement and feedback collection while empowering documentation with an integrated, robust search engine for seamless usability, and advanced AI functionality to further streamline user interactions and improve content accessibility. *Key Enhancements in Oxygen Feedback Cloud 5.2 * ** AI Insights and Multi-lingual AI Interaction* Oxygen Feedback 5.2 introduces the daily AI summary email. This feature provides you, as a site administrator, with daily insights into AI Assistant interactions, offering a comprehensive overview of user engagement and the effectiveness of AI-driven responses. Additionally, the AI Assistant now supports multi-lingual responses, ensuring that users receive answers in their preferred language, thereby enhancing the natural flow of communication and improving user satisfaction. ** Improved Administrative Control * As an administrator, you can now download detailed content indexing logs, providing critical insights for troubleshooting and optimizing indexing operations. In terms of administrative efficiency, Oxygen Feedback 5.2 introduces the ability to easily duplicate site versions. This functionality streamlines the configuration process, allowing you to quickly replicate site settings and maintain consistency across different versions. Furthermore, the update offers enhanced user management capabilities, enabling you to remove members directly from the Members page, thus maintaining an efficient and current team structure. For more information about the Oxygen Feedback Cloud edition, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback_cloud/whats_new.html For more information about the Oxygen Feedback Enterprise edition, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback_enterprise/whats_new.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[ANN] Oxygen Content Fusion 8.1 has been released!
by Alin Belu 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

Hello, We are proud to announce the release of *Oxygen Content Fusion 8.1*, the web-based collaboration platform for content creation and review! *Version 8.1* is focused on streamlining DITA content management and collaboration by introducing more flexible project creation, enhanced file comparison and merging capabilities, and new AI-enabled features through integration with the *Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 5.0*. *Key Enhancements in Oxygen Content Fusion 8.1* ** Streamlined DITA Project Creation *Start projects immediately, even before linking to a Git repository, and quickly create them from predefined templates, helping teams adopt best practices with minimal setup time. Easily import publications from existing DITA-OT project files and use them for editing and validation context.* * Advanced File Comparison and Merge *The updated file comparison and merge tool now includes a Differences view, which allows you to easily track replies and new review comments. Also, the ability to ignore white-spaces helps you to focus on meaningful content differences rather than cosmetic formatting changes, enhancing productivity and accuracy in document reviews.* * AI Positron Assistant 5.0 Integration *Attach Word, PowerPoint, and PDF files to provide contextual information for AI interactions. The new AI-powered DITA document conversion and topic analysis features enable you to restructure and update content efficiently, improving documentation clarity and organization.* * Customizing AI Actions *Develop custom AI actions or filter out existing ones for specialized use cases. Leverage an external text or Markdown file for prompts to streamline AI-driven content generation, translation, and restructuring.* * Updated Components *Oxygen Content Fusion 8.1 includes the latest *Oxygen XML Web Author 27.1.0* for visual XML editing and *Oxygen Publishing Engine 27.1* for publishing features, both of which bring further performance improvements and security updates. More information about the newest release of Oxygen Content Fusion can be found here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html The new features can also be tested freely on the public demo deployment: https://fusion.oxygenxml.com/projects We hope you will enjoy our latest release! As always, thank you for your support and don't forget that feedback is welcome! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[ANN] Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 5.0 is now available!
by Alin Belu 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

Hello, We are proud to announce the release of *Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 5.0*, a powerful tool that helps you increase your productivity by integrating next-generation AI capabilities throughout the authoring and development ecosystem. Starting with *version 5.0*, Oxygen AI Positron Assistant features integration with Eclipse, AI-driven capabilities for file creation and updates, DITA conversion and analysis tools, dynamic workflows, and an improved document change management. The plugin can seamlessly integrate with external tools such as document validation and terminology checks, optimize performance, and streamline processes with advanced AI models and callback functions. *Key Enhancements in Version 5.0* ** Eclipse Integration* The AI Positron Assistant is now available as a plugin for Eclipse, working with the Eclipse plugin distributions of Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer, offering most of the functionality available on the desktop version. ** AI-Driven File Creation* Generate XSLT, XML Schema (XSD), Schematron, JSON Schema, or DTD files by providing a simple text description, dramatically shortening the setup time for new projects and enabling authors to focus on content innovation. ** AI-based DITA Conversion, Analysis, and Update Tools* Transform existing documents or DITA topics into various specialized DITA types (Task, Concept, Reference, Troubleshooting, Glossary). Also, an AI-powered analysis action can restructure topics by dynamically splitting the document into parts and applying the conversion to the appropriate topic types for each part. ** Exclude Resources from AI Processing* Oxygen AI Positron Assistant will check if files or folders are added to a specific file named ".ai-ignore" and it will issue an error if the content from those ignored files or folders is about to be processed by the AI. ** Dynamic Workflows with AI Callback Functions* The AI now seamlessly invokes external processing steps (such as validation and terminology checks), reducing manual effort and promoting efficient authoring workflows. The AI engine may also create or update existing files using a save document callback function, but Positron keeps you in control, offering a visual diff to let you understand the changes and the possibility to accept or reject the changes. ** Expanded Document Attachment Support* Attach Word, PowerPoint, or PDF documents (including embedded images) as supplementary context so that the AI can provide more precise suggestions and intelligent insights. ** Reasoning Models* Users of the Oxygen AI Positron Service have access to two newly introduced OpenAI-based models, "o3", "o1", "o4-mini", and "o3-mini". These reasoning models tackle complex challenges in software logic, technical documentation, or business rules, boosting accuracy and productivity. ** Integration with xAI Grok* The latest OpenAI connector updates allow direct integration with the xAI Grok AI engine, expanding the flexibility and scalability of AI services for organizations. ** Accelerated Validation and Comment Resolution* Performance enhancements lead to faster turnaround times and reduced costs when fixing validation errors or resolving comments within technical documents. ** Distributable and Filterable AI Actions* Easily customize which AI actions appear in the user interface, distribute specialized AI functionalities to specific teams or projects, and filter out non-essential actions. ** Reference Prompt Files* Custom AI actions can now reference external text or Markdown prompt files, offering a more structured, reusable approach for orchestrating AI behavior. *Availability for Oxygen Web Author and Oxygen Content Fusion* Most of these capabilities are also available for Oxygen XML Web Author, providing users with the same improved reasoning models, document attachment functionalities, xAI Grok integration, and customizable AI actions in a web-based environment. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/ai_positron/whats_new.html As always, thank you for your support and don't forget that feedback is welcome! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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Re: [OXYGEN-28100] Request for advice: I have two versions of oXygen currently installed under Windows (Re: [Ann] New maintenance build available for oXygen 27.1 (2025041508)
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza) 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Hi, There's nothing to lose when uninstalling. The uninstaller simply removes the application and its folder (which can be reinstalled). User configuration files and the licensing file are kept in the user profile, C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\com.oxygenxml So you can safely uninstall the version you no longer need, it won't affect the other one. Regards, Adrian Adrian Buza oXygen XML Editor and Author Support On 22.04.2025 12:30, Jean-Luc Chevillard wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have just noticed that I have two versions of oXygen currently > installed (under Windows), namely 26.1 and 27.1. > > Although the one which is pinned in my main menue is currently version > 26.1 > > When I display the list of all installed applications, I see > > What is the safe path for simplifying this situation? I don't want to > risk losing any important configuration file, because of unforeseen > consequence? > > Thanks in advance for any advice > > -- Jean-Luc Chevillard > > https://www.tamilex.uni-hamburg.de/team/chevillard.html > > On 15.04.2025 14:57, Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza) wrote: >> Dear oXygen users, >> >> We announce the release of a new maintenance build (2025041508) for >> oXygen 27.1 (XML Editor, XML Developer, XML Author, JSON Editor, PDF >> Chemistry, WebHelp, Publishing Engine). >> The build number can be verified in the Help -> About dialog box from >> the application (next to the version number). >> >> You can download the new installation kits from our web site: >> http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html >> >> Here you can find the complete list of bug-fixes: >> http://www.oxygenxml.com/build_history.html#2025041508 >> I would like to point out this important update for our Windows users: >>> *Windows/OpenJDK JRE:* Downgraded the bundled OpenJDK/Temurin JRE to >>> version 17.0.11 due to stability issues with version 17.0.14. >> >> You can follow our oXygen release/build RSS feed here: >> http://www.oxygenxml.com/rssBuildID.xml >> >> Please let us know if you encounter any problems with this new build. >> >> Regards, >> Adrian >> -- >> Adrian Buza >> oXygen XML Editor and Author Support >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> oXygen-user mailing list --oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com >> To unsubscribe send an email tooxygen-user-leave(a)oxygenxml.com > > _______________________________________________ > oXygen-user mailing list -- oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > To unsubscribe send an email to oxygen-user-leave(a)oxygenxml.com

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[Ann] New maintenance build available for oXygen 27.1 (2025041508)
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza) 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Dear oXygen users, We announce the release of a new maintenance build (2025041508) for oXygen 27.1 (XML Editor, XML Developer, XML Author, JSON Editor, PDF Chemistry, WebHelp, Publishing Engine). The build number can be verified in the Help -> About dialog box from the application (next to the version number). You can download the new installation kits from our web site: http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html Here you can find the complete list of bug-fixes: http://www.oxygenxml.com/build_history.html#2025041508 I would like to point out this important update for our Windows users: > *Windows/OpenJDK JRE:* Downgraded the bundled OpenJDK/Temurin JRE to > version 17.0.11 due to stability issues with version 17.0.14. You can follow our oXygen release/build RSS feed here: http://www.oxygenxml.com/rssBuildID.xml Please let us know if you encounter any problems with this new build. Regards, Adrian -- Adrian Buza oXygen XML Editor and Author Support

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[ANN] Webinar: Engaging SMEs in Documentation Review (April 23, 2025)
by Alin Belu 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

Hello, In today’s fast-paced technical landscape, subject matter experts (SMEs) are essential in ensuring that documentation is accurate, reliable, and free from errors. However, traditional review methods often result in inefficient workflows, version control headaches, and wasted resources. With this in mind, we invite you to join us next week, on the *23rd of April*, for the *Engaging SMEs in Documentation Review* webinar. In this live event, Mihai Coanda (software developer at Syncro Soft) will dive into how Oxygen Content Fusion can elevate your documentation review process, ensuring SMEs remain engaged, feedback is efficiently integrated, and your documentation reflects the highest technical standards. Join us live and discover how you can transform the documentation review process by: * /Streamlining Feedback:/ Consolidate inputs from all SMEs into a single, easy-to-manage document—eliminating multiple review cycles and duplicated feedback. * /Real-Time Collaboration:/ Enable simultaneous review, where feedback is gathered and addressed instantly, reducing delays and improving clarity. * /Centralized Management:/ Integrate directly with Oxygen XML Editor/Author to manage review tasks from within your familiar editing environment, reducing the need to juggle multiple tools. * /Enhanced Task and Version Control:/ Utilize advanced task management and robust version control tools to merge changes seamlessly, ensuring that every contribution is accurately captured without compromising document integrity. * /Improved Accessibility:/ Allow reviewers to participate via a web browser, making the process accessible regardless of their location or technical skill level. This is a free event, but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2025-5.html To stay in touch with us and discover what other events we have planned for you, please make sure to check https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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