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[Ann] New maintenance build available for oXygen 28.1 (2026052805)
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza) 29 May '26

29 May '26

Dear oXygen users, We announce the release of a new maintenance build (2026052805) for oXygen 28.1 (XML Editor, XML Developer, XML Author, JSON Editor, 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#2026052805 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 to oxygen-user-leave(a)oxygenxml.com

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[ANN] Webinar: Streamlining S1000D Authoring with Oxygen XML Editor (May 20, 2026)
by Alin Belu 07 May '26

07 May '26

Hi everyone, Join us on *May 20* to discover how Oxygen XML Editor helps simplify and streamline *S1000D authoring* with powerful built-in features, including editing, validation, visual authoring, templates, BREX handling, and Smart Paste. In the webinar *"Streamlining S1000D Authoring with Oxygen XML Editor*", Octavian Nadolu (Product Manager at Syncro Soft) will demonstrate how to efficiently create, manage, and maintain Data Modules and Publication Modules across Oxygen XML Editor Desktop, Web Author, Content Fusion, and the Eclipse plugin. This live session will also explore how AI-powered capabilities in Oxygen can support authors, reduce repetitive tasks, and boost overall productivity. Don’t miss this opportunity to see how Oxygen can reduce authoring friction and deliver a more consistent and efficient S1000D workflow. The event is free, but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2026-3.html To stay in touch with us and discover what other events we have planned for you, check https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor _______________________________________________ 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] Oxygen AI Positron 8.2 is Now Available!
by Alin Belu 05 May '26

05 May '26

Hello everyone, We are proud to announce the immediate availability of the *Oxygen AI Positron 8.2* plugins for all major Oxygen XML suite products, including Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer (desktop and Eclipse distributions), Oxygen JSON Editor, Oxygen XML Web Author, and Oxygen Content Fusion. This release introduces major enhancements focused on extensibility, richer context awareness, and improved transparency across AI-assisted authoring workflows. With support for reusable skills, advanced new reasoning models, and expanded analysis of rich content formats, Oxygen AI Positron 8.2 gives technical communicators and developers more control over how AI is adapted to their workflows and organizational requirements. As AI-assisted authoring continues to evolve beyond generic prompting, Oxygen AI Positron 8.2 helps teams build more specialized, transparent, and context-aware experiences for structured content development, review, and transformation. * What's New in Oxygen AI Positron 8.2 ***************************************** * *Extensible AI Workflows with Skills* The standout addition in Oxygen AI Positron 8.2 is support for reusable *skills*, based on the Anthropic Agent Skills. Skills allow organizations and individual users to extend the AI assistant with specialized modules for repetitive workflows, external tool and API integrations, best-practice enforcement, and domain-specific processes. To help you get started quickly, several built-in skills are included for tasks such as adding review comments, translating XML content while preserving markup and structure, and performing structured persona-based analysis across multiple audience perspectives. * *Advanced Reasoning with Claude 4.6 Thinking Models* Version 8.2 adds support for the new *Claude Sonnet 4.6 Thinking* and *Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking* models. These adaptive thinking models automatically determine how much reasoning is needed for each request, enabling deeper analysis for complex tasks while remaining responsive for simpler interactions. To improve transparency, the chat interface now displays a collapsible real-time summary of the model's thinking process when these models are used, helping you better understand how responses are being developed. * *Smarter Context Awareness and Transparency* Another important improvement is the AI assistant's smarter awareness of the current working context during ongoing conversations. If you continue a chat after selecting different content or switching files, the AI is now able to better understand the current context and respond accordingly. You also benefit from a *new context window size indicator* that shows the total context window available for the selected model and how much of it is currently being used, making it easier to manage larger and more complex interactions. * *Expanded Rich Content and File Analysis* This release significantly expands support for working with rich content and binary resources. You can now ask the AI to analyze *PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or image files* without first needing to manually attach them in the chat. Support was also added for analyzing *SVG* images during AI actions and chat interactions, complementing existing image handling capabilities and making it easier to work with documentation projects that use this image format. * *Enterprise AI Integration Enhancements* For enterprise deployments, version 8.2 adds support for configuring reasoning effort levels for Microsoft Azure connections and for using *Claude deployments hosted in Azure AI Foundry* through Microsoft Azure AI connections. Various other improvements were also implemented for AI integrations, model selection, file handling, and review workflows, further strengthening Oxygen AI Positron as a flexible AI platform for professional XML and structured content environments. For the complete list of features added in *Oxygen AI Positron 8.2*, please 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 _______________________________________________ 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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