Latest Release Notes
7 May 2010 (XTM version 5.1.5)

XTM Project Manager:

  • MultiXliff import/export
  • Text Popup to create project from text
  • Combined emails sent to linguist about workflow changes
  • Master start workflow button and analysis/allocation summary
  • Projects/Jobs processing performance optimization
  • Problem reporting feature

XTM Terminology:

  • Delete Terminology for search values
  • Improved terminology tool options
  • Progress bar while loading terms
  • Display term last modification date and user

XTM TM Manager:

  • Customer list directly in TM Manager

XTM Editor:

  • Detailed info for DB matches
  • Configurable display of matches only in current segment
  • Configurable display of Google Matches in segment
  • Status management improvements (mostly for merged segments)
  • Display status of previous and next workflow step
  • Optional segment locking depending on the status of the previous workflow step

Other:

  • New methods in PM webservice/improve exception handling
  • Support for Aspx files
  • Support for .YAML files
7 January 2010 (XTM version 5)

New features:

  • XTM Portal released – A customisable online hub allowing customers to:
    • Upload files for translation
    • Receive a quotation
    • Pay online
    • Download the translation once completed
  • Automatic generation of estimates for projects taking into account
    • Language pair
    • Metrics
    • Speed of delivery
    • Subject matter
    • Workflow
  • Advanced search feature for projects, linguists and customers
  • Creation of customer project manager accounts, with customisable levels of access
  • Translators can customise an enhanced list of keyboard shortcuts
  • Easy entry of special characters such as smart quotes
  • Improved browser performance
  • Improved resilience - data retained when temporarily disconnected from the internet
  • Improved XTM web services connectivity (using Customer PM account).
  • improved filter for MS Word and INX

October 30, 2009
(XTM version 4.1)

New features:

  • Localization of the interface into Spanish, Polish & Chinese.
  • New filters to enable XTM to process IDML, SDF, XSLX, PO, PPTX files.
  • Imporved handling of inline tags.
  • Constantly updated TM matches in XTM Editor.
  • The creation of an unclean Microsoft Word file after translation.
  • New tab in the project editor to manage the generation and download of xliff, target, pdf, html and unclean MSWord files.
  • Improved performance when generating PDF and HTML previews.
  • The possibility to create a TMX file from the project.
  • A New XTM Web Service for creating and managing the projects, for use when integrating with other systems.
  • Improved performance and scalability through the use of JMS queues.

August 18, 2009 (XTM version 4.0.5)

New features:

  • Access to the Editor is now available from within the Project Managers UI.
  • Comments are automatically applied to segments when a corrector makes a change. The Project Manager can view a report of the corrector's changes.
  • Upgraded segmentation of the .INX files.
  • Preview of the inline contents in the XTM Editor.
  • Enhanced real time propagation of repeated segments.

June 26, 2009 (XTM version 4.0)

New features:

  • Documents can be split into bundles of segments to allocate to multiple resources.
  • There are now 3 classes of linguist:
    1. Translator,
    2. Reviewer - Can only add comments,
    3. Corrector - Can edit the translation.
  • Multiple linguists can work simultaneously on one document.
  • Greater flexibility within the workflow to reroute jobs and allocate resources.
  • Many more standard workflows available for selection.
  • Enhanced project metrics showing the progress of each step in the workflow.
  • Individual translator statistics for monitoring and reporting.
  • Improved performance from XTM Engine for analysis and matching.
  • XTM can now process:
    1. PDF files
    2. Visio files (VDX)
    3. Adobe INCX
  • Faster and more consistent processing of complex .doc files.
  • A PDF preview for .DOCX files is now possible.
  • Lists of projects, customers, linguists can all be sorted by clicking on column headers.
  • Fuzzy matches can be copied with or without inline elements.


February 2, 2009 (XTM version 3.4)

New features:

  • XTM Workflow: In Context Exact Matching is now available for previously translated documents.
  • XTM Workflow: Terminologists - A new category of user, responsible for managing Terminology can now be created.
  • XTM Workflow: Now possible to delete users from the XTM system.
  • XTM Workflow: Linguists can upload and download Xliff files from 'My Inbox'.
  • XTM Editor: Find & replace function has been added. You can now search for any phrase and replace it with a new phrase.
  • XTM Editor: Full access to XTM Terminology is now possible from XTM Editor.
  • XTM Editor: New column added to the metrics: the percentage based on words.
  • XTM Terminology: Import and export of the CSV files has been improved.
  • XTM Terminology: Improved the XTM Terminology interface.
  • XTM Engine: The filter for the INX files has been enhanced.
  • XTM Engine: New parser for the HTML files. The document structure is now preserved.
  • XTM Engine: Filter for XML files containing HTML elements has been added.
  • XTM Engine: CJK languages support increased – fuzzy matches improved.
  • XTM Engine: Xliff Exporter module has been enhanced.

Bug fixes:

  • XTM Workflow: Displaying footbars with a success message has been fixed.
  • XTM Workflow: Problems with the message from administrator resolved.
  • XTM Workflow: Upload Xliff button problems resolved.
  • XTM Editor: Disappearing spaces when typing new words is no longer an issue.
  • XTM Editor: Popup with metrics has been improved.
  • XTM Engine: ITS: The translate attribute in XML elements are considered.


November 19, 2008
(XTM version 3.3.1)

New features:

  • XTM Workflow: Projects may now be grouped by creator, customer or source language
  • XTM Workflow: Graphical user interface appearance improvements – more messages when creating new projects or adding users
  • XTM Workflow: The customer name is no longer updateable. An icon with this message is shown when creating new customer account
  • XTM Workflow: Context menu in the archived projects page available
  • XTM Editor: Help page updated
  • XTM Editor: QA checking terms improved
  • XTM Terminology: Import history section added

Bug fixes:

  • XTM Engine: Encoding declaration in TTX files corrected
  • XTM Engine: Rendering XLIFF with terms after translation corrected
  • XTM Engine: Rendering XLIFF with alt-trans element that contain element with namespaces corrected
  • XTM Engine: Appropriate content from MIF file extracted
  • XTM Engine: Conversion of XML tags into {i} form corrected for some spacial cases
  • XTM Engine: Problem with rendering '”' characters in XLIFF Exporter fixed
  • XTM Engine: Fixed the “Index out of bounds” error
  • XTM Engine: The “translate” attribute restriction for segments in XLIFF Exporter fixed
  • XTM Workflow: Problem with viewing administrator's message box resolved
  • XTM Workflow: Exporting the metrics to CSV file or as GMX/V data problem fixed
  • XTM Workflow: Problem with opening Microsoft Document files in XTM Editor resolved
  • XTM Workflow: Downloading source files from 'My Inbox' error fixed
  • XTM Workflow: Updating Linguists' data fixed
  • XTM Workflow: Loosing project's details after update when pressing ESC key fixed
  • XTM Workflow: Date inputs problem for the Linguist's qualifications in Internet Explorer 7 fixed
  • XTM Workflow: Bug when customer name contains '/' characters fixed
  • XTM Workflow: Creating new project with only ZIP files resolved
  • XTM Workflow: Problems with managing terminology of separate customers by the same Workflow removed
  • XTM Editor: Javascript errors resolved
  • XTM Editor: Exporting metrics to CSV file and as GMX/V data problem fixed
  • XTM QA: Javascript error when checking segment fixed
  • XTM Terminology: Data loss when exporting terminology to the CSV file resolved
  • XTM Terminology: Space between the main navigation menu and the submenu removed
  • XTM TM Manager: Javascript errors in Manage tab fixed
  • XTM TM Manager: Recreation of Lucene index after TMX import corrected



October 13, 2008 (XTM version 3.3)

New features:

  • XTM TM Manager: New button to delete all found segements in the TM after search.
  • XTM TM Manager: Improved performance in searching memory by using Lucene index.
  • XTM TM Manager: Improved the speed of importing and exporting TMX files.
  • XTM Workflow: Now possible to delete projects with or without the asssociated translation memory.
  • XTM Workflow: Increased performance of the javascript code.
  • XTM Editor: Now possible to spell check the entire document.
  • XTM Editor: Global replace function available.
  • XTM Editor: Improved the display of the target segment by reducing the number of carriage returns.
  • XTM Editor: User is now alerted if there are errors in the inline elements when closing the editor.
  • XTM Engine: With integrated version of XTM users can now work without authorization.
  • XTM Engine: Table of contents of Microsoft Office and OpenOffice files are not translated.
  • XTM Engine: Support for docx files.

Bug fixes:

  • XTM Workfow: PDF preview fixed for Microsoft Office documents.
  • XTM Workflow: Problem with the system not reponding now fixed.
  • XTM Editor: Marking fuzzy matched words in concordance enhanced.
  • XTM Editor: Search for unicode characters fixed in concordance.
  • XTM Editor: Fixed displaying inlines in fuzzy matches.
  • XTM Editor: Set/unset segment as non-equivalent fixed.
  • XTM Engine: Missing spaces problem resolved.
  • XTM Engine: Improved the segmentation of German ordinals.
  • XTM Engine: TTX filter improved.
  • XTM TM Manager: Remove unrecognized column from Import TMX view.
  • XTM TM Manager: Clarified mouseovers of sidebar icons on the "Manage" page.


September 3, 2008
(XTM build 226)

New features:

  • Terms translations test and number formatting test added in the XTM QA.
  • Enhanced 'unmerge' action in XTM Editor.
  • Improved the speed of the search box in XTM TM Manager.
  • Shortcut 'alt' + '-' runs XTM QA (unless the segment is non-translatable) and goes to next unit.
  • Shortcut 'alt' + down/up arrow goes to the next/previous unit even across the pages.
  • 'Go to the next incomplete translation' improvement - at the end of the document starts to search incomplete translations from the beginning of the document.
  • XTM QA is turned off for the non-translatable segments.
  • Created separate help file for every role.
  • XTM QA can be run for whole page.
  • XTM Editor Concordance search by full word.
  • XTM Editor Concordance all results and hitcount are displayed.
  • Status propagation to the merged segments.
  • Global warnings icon with messages from the XTM QA added in XTM Editor.
  • New module available since this release - XTM Workflow.

Bug fixes:

  • Decoration of the terms in the XTM Editor enhanced.
  • Apostrophe entity display fixed in XTM Editor in Internet Explorer.
  • Change font size/name/weigth from toolbar fixed.
  • Set/Unset as non equivalent option fixed.
  • Fixed the undo action on the first page.


July 24, 2008
(XTM build 205)

New features:

  • Concordance in XTM Editor works much faster now thanks to the use of indexing.
  • Units locking and unlocking in XTM Editor has been enhanced.

Bug fixes:

  • Managing XML entities in XTM Editor for Internet Explorer 7 has been enhanced.


June 27, 2008
(XTM build 197)

New features:

  • It is now possible to classify Comments by category.
  • Importing large files into XTM Terminology is now much faster.
  • Splitting of long words in the XTM Workbench has been enhanced.
  • XTM Terminology is now customer specific.
  • Backward propagation of repetition and internal fuzzy matches has been added.
  • Finding memory segments in XTM TM Manager is now faster.
  • Microsoft Office and OpenOffice footnotes are now processed as sub-flow.
  • A new TTX filter has been created for unsegmented Trados files.
  • The modification time of a term has been added.
  • You can search on the date and time of the last modification of a term.
  • Term CRC information presented after every modification of the term.
  • Invalid characters are now cleared from Trados TMX documents.

Bug fixes:

  • Fuzzy forward matching in XTM Workbench has been improved.
  • A problem with the concordance pop-up in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 casuing the browser to crashe has been fixed.
  • The rollback in the XTM Terminology when trying to import a corrupted terminology file has been fixed. Either all or none of the items are imported.
  • Unwanted spaces before inlines have been removed.
  • Statuses and domains in the XTM Terminology have been fixed.
  • InDesign files are now processed properly.
  • The translation memory segment status "Depracated" has been changed to "Invalid".
  • A bug that caused files in a zip file to be corrupted has been fixed.
  • The display of '\' character in the XTM Workbench has been fixed.
  • The display of inline tags has been enhanced.
  • Document metrics have been fixed.


May 5, 2008
(XTM build 174)

New features:

  • Adding new terms to database is now possible from the XTM Workbench.
  • The extraction of matches from TTX files has been improved.
  • Support for terminology Multiterm Format (MTF) with import/export option added.
  • Added comments wrapping (segment comments may be hidden).
  • A save option has been added to the metrics window. Metrics can be saved in csv and/or xml (GMX/V) format.
  • Technical details are now hidden on the error page in TM Manager.
  • The segment status may be changed by using a popup menu when a user clicks the status box.
  • The inlines elements in Leverage and Fuzzy suggestions are coloured.
  • TMX tab replaced with TM tab.
  • Tags are checked after copying source to target (Alt + Insert).
  • If undefined javascript strings appear, English text is displayed.
  • Improved handling of RTL languages (e.g. Arabic) in the XTM Workbench.

Bug fixes:

  • Import/export terminology bug fixed.
  • Bug with segmentation of documents with commented nodes fixed.
  • Corrected searching memory in IE7.
  • The propagation of the unit changes when two users work in XTM Workbench works better now.
  • TMX tab hidden (no longer needed).
  • Corrected changing status when rewrite source is turned off.
  • Corrected bug when redirecting to specified unit.
  • Changing inlines into 'undefined' fixed.
  • Repeated '\' in Leverage and Fuzzy suggestions removed.
  • Pasting (Ctrl+V), no longer removes inline tags.
  • Displaying terminology within XTM Workbench fixed.
  • SRX bug fixed.
  • Stripping 0x8 character from TMX before importing (caused errors earlier).
  • Improved leveraged matches with inlines.
  • Fixed obtaining documents that do not contain namespace.
  • Do not write segments to the database if source language is the same as target language - efficiency fix.
  • "Too many open files" bug when reading contexts has been fixed.
  • No translation of alt-trans target elements in ITS.
  • Fixed unmerging sentences (bottom sentence removed from the top one).
  • Tag order check improved.



February
28, 2008
(editor build 132)

New features:

  • Metrics dynamically updated.
  • XTM Terminology now supports multiple databases.
  • Quality Assurance module added to XTM TM Manager.
  • Multiple file analysis now possible in XTM Workbench.
  • XLIFF & TTX files with matches can now be fully displayed in the editor.
  • Repeated spaces removed in quality assurance process.
  • Possible to go to specific segment number.
  • Application and module version details page added.
  • Metrics thresholds changed for repetition and fuzzy matches.
  • Progress bar added on opening editor.
  • New TTX filter with unsegmented file support.
  • Tags management added to target text fields (in rich texts).
  • System now checks if the file has units to translate while creating new project.

Bug fixes:

  • Revision back button now works correctly.
  • Timeout error while TMX import in TM Manager fixed.
  • User allowed to use 'Paste' in context menu.
  • User allowed to close a browser window from 'Session expired' page.
  • In IE6 there it is now possible to log in using Enter key.
  • Artificial tags added by IE in quality assurance process have been removed .
  • Improper height of the target text fields (rich texts) fixed.
  • Corrected date setting in search section of TM Manager.
  • Improvements to 'New project' form validation.