Release History
Version 7.0
Oxygen Content Fusion version 7.0 enhances the project support by introducing a personal authoring workspace where you can make changes across multiple files and once you are happy with the results, you can commit them directly to the repository to share them with your team. The dedicated Changes side-view enables you to preview and adjust changes before committing. An XML-aware conflict resolution tool helps you pull changes from the repository, detects conflicts, suggests automated solutions, and also allows merging content manually for more complex scenarios. Along with the powerful editing features for XML documents, the built-in Web Author allows you to edit Markdown files inside the authoring workspace providing syntax preview and toolbar actions to insert common structures.
Version 2.1
The Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on is a powerful tool that helps users increase their productivity by providing support for using AI-generated content. Version 2.1 expands upon the enhancements of the previous version by adding the advanced multi-modal GPT-4o to the list of models to choose from, as well as the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service connector now supporting authentication using Microsoft Entra ID.
Version 2.0
The Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on is a powerful tool that helps users increase their productivity by providing support for using AI-generated content. Version 2.0 adds support for Vision models, allowing the AI to also read and interpret images and thus supporting more use cases. The new Generate Documentation Draft action makes it possible for users to provide instructions and images to help the AI engine create a draft DITA topic. Furthermore, this version also introduces an action that enables users to simply update the images from a topic and have the AI analyze the images and propose content updates.
Version 26.1
Oxygen XML Editor version 26.1 is an incremental release of the industry-leading bundle of tools for content authors, developers, collaborators, and publishers. Starting with this release, the Enterprise edition of Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer becomes AI-ready, offering access without the need for an additional subscription to the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise add-on which allows direct connection to OpenAI accounts or to the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service.
Version 26.1.0
Oxygen XML Web Author version 26.1.0 is an incremental release for the innovative web-based XML authoring tool. This release has some interesting new features for DITA users, introducing support for DITA-OT project files and providing better handling of DITAVAL filters. The DITA Map pane allows users to specify a DITA-OT project file and choose between the contexts defined within it. Users may also easily switch profiling conditions, and there is the option to hide or present as grayed out content that is excluded by the current filter in the document, DITA Maps pane, and in the Outline pane.
Version 1.1
The Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on is a powerful tool that helps writers increase productivity by providing support for using AI-generated content with the Oxygen AI Positron service. Version 1.1 introduces a separate Enterprise version of the add-on for those who want to configure the service to use a company-specific AI service (OpenAI or Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service). Moreover, this update brings a selection of new document templates to help you create your own custom AI actions, and a new action was implemented that allows you to translate content into any language. The interface was enhanced to provide easier access to actions, alongside the introduction of various other user experience enhancements.
Version 4.1
Version 4.1 of Oxygen Feedback Cloud aims to streamline the configuration and installation processes by providing information and helping to debug problems related to the Feedback installation on a site, offers a nice overview with relevant information for a site via a new Site Dashboard page, and updates the notification emails to ensure that the information is clear and consistent.
Version 4.1
Version 4.1 of Oxygen Feedback Enterprise aims to streamline the configuration and installation processes by providing information and helping to debug problems related to the Feedback installation on a site, offers a nice overview with relevant information for a site via a new Site Dashboard page, and updates the notification emails to ensure that the information is clear and consistent.
Version 1.0
The Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on is a powerful tool that helps writers increase productivity by providing support for using AI-generated content with the Oxygen AI Positron service. Once installed, writers can utilize AI-generated content to perform repetitive tasks, review grammar, generate structure and text, or propose changes to improve readability. It always keeps the writer in control, offering a visual diff comparison to help quickly identify proposed changes and understand how the AI-generated content will appear in the content and you have the ability to refine proposals by continuing the chat with the AI.
Version 26.0
Oxygen XML Editor version 26 introduces the exciting new Oxygen AI Positron Assistant, an add-on that provides a powerful tool to help writers increase their productivity by performing repetitive tasks, reviewing grammar, generating structure and text, or proposing changes to improve readability. It always keeps the writer in control, offering a visual diff comparison to help quickly understand what changed and the ability to continue the chat with the AI to refine the proposals.
Version 26.0.0
One of the most exciting new features is the preview of the new Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin that provides a powerful tool to help writers use AI-generated content, available now on the Web Author demo server and soon to be available for Web Author on-premise installations. The plugin contributes a side pane that offers a variety of AI-powered actions with the goal of improving your productivity. Actions are available to provide helpful hints for the next writing steps, enhance the readability of existing content, correct grammar errors, generate index terms, translate content, create marketing-related material, or even restructure parts of a document.
Version 6.0
Oxygen Content Fusion 6.0 Beta introduces a lot of interesting and substantial improvements for the online collaboration platform designed to improve the DITA documentation review and publishing processes. Note that this is currently a Beta version of the 6.0 release cycle, so user feedback is welcomed and considered especially helpful as we prepare for the full release.
Version 5.1
Version 5.1 of Oxygen Content Fusion is a minor release for the innovative collaboration platform that is designed to improve any documentation review process. The main focus of this release was to integrate the latest changes brought by Oxygen XML Web Author version 25.1.0 into Content Fusion's visual editor and to enhance the security of the platform.
Version 25.1
Oxygen XML Editor version 25.1 is a minor release of the industry-leading bundle of tools for content authors, developers, collaborators, and publishers. This latest version offers both enhancements to existing functionality as well as some brand new features that were requested by the community.
Version 25.0
Oxygen XML Editor version 25.0 provides a platform to work both with XML and XML-related resources by extending its support to other languages such as JSON and YAML, and being able to treat some file types (Word, Excel, OpenAPI, HTML, Markdown, and others) as DITA-compatible resources and thus reference and use them from DITA maps, similar to how DITA XML topics are referenced and used.
Version 25.0.0
Version 25.0.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author continues to bolster the innovative web-based XML authoring tool with more enhancements and additions. This major release offers improvements to the general user interface, new DITA authoring features, more customization possibilities, refinements to concurrent editing sessions, performance tweaks, as well as various bug fixes and component updates.
Version 24.1
Oxygen XML Editor version 24.1 is an incremental release for the industry's most advanced bundle of tools used by technical writers, developers, collaborators, and publishers everywhere. The focus of this release was to expand upon the new features and improvements that were added in version 24.0.
Version 24.1.0
Version 24.1.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author is the latest release for the innovative web-based XML authoring tool. This release expands upon the features that were recently added in Version 24.0.0 with further improvements to some of those features, along with several new enhancements. A new Search side-view makes it easier to find and replace content, @ mentions are now supported, performance was enhanced, new functionality improves customizations and integrations, and various security and component updates were implemented.
Version 24.0
Oxygen XML Editor version 24.0 is the latest major release of the industry's most advanced bundle of tools used by technical writers, developers, and publishers everywhere. This release offers a lot of exciting new features, updates, productivity enhancements, new customization options, and various performance optimizations.
Version 24.0.0
Version 24.0.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author is the latest release for the innovative web-based XML authoring tool. This release introduces a visual merge tool for resolving conflicts when committing to a shared Git repository, a re-design of the interface to offer a more modern and visually appealing look, additional protection against XXE vulnerabilities and other security-related improvements, as well as more customization possibilities, performance optimizations, and accessibility enhancements.
Version 23.1.1
Version 23.1.1 of Oxygen XML Web Author is the latest maintenance release for the industry-leading web-based XML authoring tool. The main focus for this release was to improve the very popular Concurrent Editing feature that was introduced in the most recent major release and we are very happy to announce that the feature in no longer in the BETA stage. Numerous bug fixes and security improvements were also implemented for this release.
Version 4.1
Version 4.1 of Oxygen Content Fusion is the latest maintenance release for the innovative collaboration platform that is designed to improve any documentation review process. The main focus for this release was to improve the very popular Concurrent Editing feature that was introduced in the most recent major release and we are very happy to announce that the feature in no longer in the BETA stage. Numerous bug fixes and security improvements were also implemented for this release.
Version 22.1
Version 22.1 of the Oxygen XML Editor brings you more productivity improvements for DITA authoring, customization options and change bars for CSS-based DITA to PDF publishing, the JSON and HTML editing support continued to be enhanced, while some of the most popular add-ons were improved and new ones made available.
Version 22.1.0
Version 22.1.0 of the Oxygen XML Web Author includes a new Outline pane that offers a quick way to navigate through the document, gives you insight about the location of your modifications, shows the hierarchical dependencies between elements, and makes it easy to visualize the XML structure.
Version 1.2
Version 1.2 of Oxygen Feedback includes a new Dashboard page in the administration interface that aggregates information and statistics for all of your site configurations, a single level of replies for comments to simplify discussion threads, and an improved workflow allows you to mark threads as resolved.
Version 21.1.1
Version 21.1.1 of the Oxygen XML Web Author is the latest minor release for the innovative web-based authoring tool. The focus of this release was to make editing even more efficient, enable easier navigation of a DITA project, and to make it possible to compare different versions of a file or different files.
Version 21.1
Version 21.1 of the Oxygen XML Editor introduces HTML5 support (without treating it as XHTML), providing specialized text-based editing and validation support. DITA support includes a new Resource Hierarchy/Dependencies view, the ability to quickly find similar topics, DITA PDF publishing now provides the possibility of adding a mini-TOC at each chapter as well as internationalization, and many other improvements.
Version 21.0.0
The release of version 21 of Oxygen XML Web Author includes new features to help DITA authors work with DITA keys, more file repository integration plugins, such as Perforce Helix and Alfresco, a new Markdown editor, numerous enhancements for working with tables, as well as various other new features, new API entry points, performance improvements, and more.
Version 21.0
The release of version 21 of Oxygen XML Editor adds numerous new features, updates, and improvements to the already robust, industry-leading XML editing application. The primary focus for this major release was to evaluate user requests for improvements and additions, implement as many of them as possible, while preserving the reliability, stability, and performance requirements that the XML community has come to expect from the Oxygen suite of products.
Version 1.1
The release of Version 1.1 of Oxygen Content Fusion adds various new features and improvements to the innovative collaboration tool for any XML documentation review process. Oxygen Content Fusion has a connector add-on that comes bundled with Oxygen XML Author and Oxygen XML Editor. To fully take advantage of all of the benefits and features, your organization will need an Oxygen Content Fusion Enterprise Server. For more information, see the Content Fusion website.
Version 20.1.0
Version 20.1 of the Oxygen XML Web Author is the latest release for the innovative web-based authoring tool, it makes it easier for non technical users to work with structured content, for example using user-friendly names for XML elements and presenting documentation tooltips, improves the review support when working with track changes and comments, and allows users to select between various rendering styles for a document.
Version 20.1
Version 20.1 of the Oxygen XML Editor includes productivity improvements for DITA, XSLT, and new editing features, and validation support for JSON documents. DITA publishing was updated to make the WebHelp output compliant with the Section 508 accessibility standard, making it accessible for people with disabilities, and publishing DITA maps to PDF using CSS styles can be applied on HTML5 as intermediate format, thus reusing the HTML5 WebHelp publishing CSS styles. As usual, this version also contains numerous new add-ons, API, and component updates.
Version 20.0.0
Version 20.0 of the Oxygen XML Web Author is the latest release for the innovative web-based authoring tool. Its powerful technology and adaptive interface allows you to review, contribute, and edit content from anywhere you have access to a browser, on desktop PCs, tablets, or mobile devices. This release includes a variety of new features and improvements to make your authoring, collaborating, and reviewing experience more efficient, accurate, and productive than ever before.
Version 20.0
Version 20.0 of the Oxygen XML Editor brings you a variety of new features and improvements that focus on productivity, performance, efficiency, and simplicity and covers many aspects of functionality from XML authoring to XML development, from add-ons to built-in functionality, API changes, and component updates.
Version 19.1.0
Oxygen XML Web Author version 19.1 is the latest release for the innovative web-based authoring tool. Its powerful technology and adaptive interface allows you to review, contribute, and edit content from anywhere you have access to a browser, on desktop PCs, tablets, or mobile devices. It includes a variety of new features and improvements to make your authoring, collaborating, and reviewing experience more efficient, accurate, and productive than ever before.
Version 19.0.0
Oxygen XML Web Author version 19 is the latest release for the innovative web-based authoring tool. Its powerful technology and adaptive interface allows you to review, contribute, and edit content from anywhere you have access to a browser, on desktops, tablets, or mobile devices. It includes a variety of new features and improvements to make your authoring, collaborating, and reviewing experience more efficient, accurate, and productive than ever before.
Version 18.1.0
Oxygen XML Web Author version 18.1 is a maintenance release for the innovative web-based authoring tool. Its powerful technology and adaptive interface allows you to review, contribute, and edit content from anywhere, on desktops, tablets, or mobile devices. It includes a variety of new features and improvements to make your authoring, collaborating, and reviewing experience more efficient and productive than ever before.
Version 18.0.1
Oxygen XML Web Author version 18.0.1 is the latest release for the innovative Oxygen web-based authoring tool. Its powerful technology and adaptive interface allows you to review, contribute, and edit content from anywhere, on desktops, tablets, or mobile devices. It includes a variety of new features and improvements to make your authoring, collaborating, and reviewing experience more efficient and productive than ever before.
Version 18.0.0
Oxygen XML Web Author version 18.0.0 is the latest major release for the innovative web-based authoring tool. Its powerful technology and adaptive interface allows you to review, contribute, and edit content from anywhere, on desktops, tablets, or mobile devices. It includes a variety of new features and improvements to make your authoring, collaborating, and reviewing experience more efficient and productive than ever before.
Version 17.1
Oxygen XML Editor version 17.1 includes updates and improvements to make your XML authoring and developing experience even more productive and effective. The performance of many of the integral components has been optimized and numerous features were enhanced and fine-tuned to make Oxygen XML Editor even more powerful, dynamic, and easy to use. It also features a spectacular new visual design that makes everything look crisp and beautiful.
Version 16.0
XSLT development received a productivity burst in Oxygen XML Developer 16 with the addition of Quick Fixes support and improvements to refactoring actions. If you develop XSLT stylesheets to work with Saxon-CE in the browser, Oxygen will assist you with validation and content completion assistance for the Saxon-CE specific extensions.
Version 15.1
Version 15.1 of Oxygen XML makes a leap forward in working with XML modules. Using the Master Files support, Oxygen assists you while editing an XML document that belongs to a set of assembled modules, and provides you features such as module validation, in context Content Completion Assistant, ID referencing or module connection overview.
Version 15.0
Oxygen XML Developer 15.0 streamlines the development of web services with major improvements to its WSDL editing support that features intelligent search and refactoring actions, hierarchy and dependencies views, context-aware editing assistance and support for generating documentation. There are also improvements in working with XML databases and in the validation support.
Version 14.1
Version 14.1 of Oxygen XML Editor makes XML authoring available to everybody, by allowing attributes to be edited directly in the Author mode through form-like controls and placing actions directly in the document flow. This expands the range of XML documents that can be edited visually from text-centric to data oriented documents.
Version 13.2
Version 13.2 introduces a Syntax Highlight mechanism capable of handling mixed content types, improves the JSON editing support and bidirectional documents rendering, extends the XML-native database support with find/replace capabilities and updates many third-party components. Also, there are many improvements in the authoring support, including an updated DITA Maps Metrics Report, experimental support for CGM images and updated API.
Version 13.1
Version 13.1 adds support for XHTML 5, improved content completion assistance in XML modules, a TEI ODD framework, support for publishing DITA maps directly from a CMS or other remote resources and a metrics report for DITA maps. Being a maintenance release it has a focus also on fixing many small issues.
Version 13.0
Version 13 introduces Oxygen XML Developer as an additional product in the Oxygen products family. This aggregates all the XML development features offering a cost effective tool for people that do not need the visual editing support. Oxygen XML Editor is the union of Oxygen XML Developer and Oxygen XML Author offering both XML development and XML authoring capabilities.
Version 12.2
Version 12.2 of Oxygen XML introduces a number of unique development features. It provides support for editing XSLT and XML Schema modules in the context of a main XSLT, respectively main XML Schema file. For XML Schema visual editing it introduces a Palette view that allows to easily create new schema components by dragging them from this Palette view into the diagram. The support for the xml-model processing instruction for schema association that was previewed at XML Prague is available in 12.2 replacing the Oxygen specific processing instruction. The new version includes also one of the most requested features: Ant integration - the support for Ant transformation scenarios allows executing a target from an Ant script. For XSLT 2.0 and XQuery transformations it is possible to specify parameter values as XPath expressions when the engine allows that.
Version 11.1
Version 11.1 of Oxygen XML Editor improves the XML authoring capabilities, the support for XML development and also a number of core features. The visual XML authoring uses schema information to provide intelligent editing actions that help keep the document valid and provide a better editing experience. The compact representation of tags and the quick up/down navigation features improve the ergonomics and the usability. Oxygen XML Editor can use any XQJ compliant XQuery processor for XQuery transformations, different error levels and external references can be specified for Schematron messages and the XProc support was improved with better editing and execution. The XML format and indent operation can use DTD/schema information to provide better formatting and the find and replace is XML aware and can accept XPath filtering to delimit the search scope.
Version 11.0
Version 11.0 of Oxygen XML Editor includes exciting features covering both XML development and XML authoring, such as XProc support, integrated documentation for XSLT stylesheets, a XQuery debugger (for the Oracle Berkeley DB XML database), MathML rendering and editing support, a smarter Author mode for an improved visual editing experience, and DITA 1.2 features.