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What's new in Swordfish 5.2.1

Apr 11, 2024
  • Fixes: Forced closing of projects, memories and glossaries on exit

New in Swordfish 5.2.0 (Mar 26, 2024)

  • Updated libraries

New in Swordfish 5.1.0 (Mar 18, 2024)

  • New:
  • Improved handling of tags from Machine Translation (MT)
  • Improved support for Word documents
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 3.20.0

New in Swordfish 5.0.2 (Mar 4, 2024)

  • Fixed export translations as TMX file

New in Swordfish 5.0.1 (Feb 28, 2024)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed error confirming all translations

New in Swordfish 5.0.0 (Feb 24, 2024)

  • New:
  • New database format for storing projects, memories, and glossaries
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed support for DeepL PRO plan

New in Swordfish 4.30.0 (Jan 26, 2024)

  • Updated libraries

New in Swordfish 4.29.0 (Jan 22, 2024)

  • Reimplemented Machine Translation (MT) system
  • Added support for ModernMT MT engine
  • Dropped support for MyMemory MT API
  • Migrated to Java 21
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 3.17.0

New in Swordfish 4.28.0 (Sep 29, 2023)

  • New:
  • Implemented support for case sensitive TM matches
  • Updated ChatGPT models
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 3.16.0

New in Swordfish 4.27.0 (Jul 6, 2023)

  • New:
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 3.10.0
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed TMX exports
  • Fixed batch translation of large projects with RemoteTM

New in Swordfish 4.26.0 (Jul 1, 2023)

  • New:
  • Added ChatGPT Machine Translation engine
  • Added support for DeepL free plan
  • Improved support for Yandex Translation API
  • Improved support for TXLF files
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 3.9.0
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed export of DITA projects

New in Swordfish 4.25.0 (Jun 19, 2023)

  • New:
  • Updated Java, Electron and TypeScript versions
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 3.8.0
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed filter configuration for XML files

New in Swordfish 4.23.1 (Mar 24, 2023)

  • Fixed connection errors to DeepL servers

New in Swordfish 4.23.0 (Mar 22, 2023)

  • New:
  • Improved support for HTML
  • Added more supported languages to Machine Translation engines
  • Updated default SRX file
  • Updated libraries

New in Swordfish 4.22.2 (Nov 21, 2022)

  • Fixes:
  • Adjusted project management

New in Swordfish 4.22.1 (Oct 22, 2022)

  • New:
  • Improved support for PHP Arrays.
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 2.9.1.

New in Swordfish 4.22.0 (Oct 21, 2022)

  • New:
  • Added support for PHP Arrays
  • Allowed selection of working folders for projects, memories and glossaries
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 2.9.0
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed creation of projects with two or more files

New in Swordfish 4.21.0 (Jul 26, 2022)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed get terms option

New in Swordfish 4.20.0 (Jul 14, 2022)

  • New:
  • Improved support for JSON files
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 2.5.0
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed export of projects containing IDML files

New in Swordfish 4.19.2 (Jun 19, 2022)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed support for Trados Studio Packages

New in Swordfish 4.19.1 (Jun 10, 2022)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed handling of third party XLIFF 1.2 files

New in Swordfish 4.19.0 (Jun 9, 2022)

  • New:
  • Updated supported language lists for Machine Translation engines
  • Improved support for XLIFF from Fluenta
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 2.4.0

New in Swordfish 4.18.1 (May 27, 2022)

  • Fixed term searches.

New in Swordfish 4.18.0 (May 26, 2022)

  • New:
  • Improved compatibility with XLIFF files from Fluenta
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 2.3.0

New in Swordfish 4.17.1 (May 13, 2022)

  • Fixed bug in project exports

New in Swordfish 4.17.0 (May 11, 2022)

  • New:
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 2.2.0
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed export of projects containing IDML files

New in Swordfish 4.16.0 (Apr 23, 2022)

  • New:
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 2.1.0
  • Improved support for RemoteTM

New in Swordfish 4.15.0 (Mar 3, 2022)

  • New:
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 1.17.3
  • Improved compatibility with Trados Studio

New in Swordfish 4.14.0 (Feb 6, 2022)

  • New:
  • Updated OpenXLIFF Filters to version 1.17.2
  • Improved support for DITA files with broken references
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed conversion FrameMaker MIF files

New in Swordfish 4.13.0 (Nov 30, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improved word count statistics
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed tag numbers in HTML export

New in Swordfish 4.12.1 (Nov 23, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improved conversion of XLIFF 2.0 to 1.2
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed handling of matches from third party TMX files

New in Swordfish 4.12.0 (Nov 22, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improved updates downloader
  • Migrated to Java 17
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed export translations of Word documents

New in Swordfish 4.11.2 (Nov 15, 2021)

  • Fixed tag number display

New in Swordfish 4.11.1 (Nov 13, 2021)

  • Fixed:
  • Fixed segmentation of MS Office files

New in Swordfish 4.11.0 (Nov 12, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improved support for DITA
  • Added support for Relax NG grammars for XML files

New in Swordfish 4.10.0 (Oct 29, 2021)

  • New:
  • Updated the list of languages supported by Azure Machine Translation
  • Improved handling of tag & space errors with new dialogs

New in Swordfish 4.9.0 (Oct 24, 2021)

  • New:
  • Added options to customize the filter for XML files
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed merging of segments with tags

New in Swordfish 4.8.0 (Sep 22, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improved segmentation
  • Remembered dialog positions
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed transfer of TM and MT matches to target

New in Swordfish 4.7.0 (Aug 31, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improved support for DITA files
  • Updated libraries
  • Layout updates

New in Swordfish 4.6.0 (Jul 26, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improved selection of projects, memories and glossaries
  • Preserved segment numbers when filtering or sorting
  • Automatically reset catalog when default is missing
  • Layout updates
  • Fixes:
  • Preserved TM matches on screen when applying MT

New in Swordfish 4.5.3 (Jul 4, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improved CSS styles
  • Fixes:
  • Ignored errors when checking for updates in background
  • Ignored untranslatable SVG in DITA maps

New in Swordfish 4.5.2 (Jun 20, 2021)

  • Fixed concordance search

New in Swordfish 4.5.1 (Jun 14, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed inconsistent data loss on application close
  • Fixed segment count display

New in Swordfish 4.5.0 (Jun 12, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improved user interface layout
  • Switched to Eclipse Public License v1.0

New in Swordfish 4.4.2 (May 30, 2021)

  • Fixed "Connection reset" error when requesting Machine Translation from Microsoft Azure

New in Swordfish 4.4.1 (May 5, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed old project dissapearance when creating a new one

New in Swordfish 4.4.0 (May 4, 2021)

  • New:
  • Added native support for new Apple Silicon (M1) Macs
  • Improved layout
  • Improved RemoteTM integration
  • Pasted text from other applications as plain text
  • Changed project sorting to newest on top
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed detection of JSON files
  • Fixed handling of wrong tags

New in Swordfish 4.3.0 (Apr 12, 2021)

  • New:
  • Added new languages to DeepL Machine Translation engine.
  • Added support for RemoteTM 5.0

New in Swordfish 4.2.1 (Mar 16, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed export of untranslated segments

New in Swordfish 4.2.0 (Feb 18, 2021)

  • New:
  • Added support for bidirectional languages
  • Implemented support for very large segments

New in Swordfish 4.1.3 (Feb 3, 2021)

  • Restored sentence segmentation

New in Swordfish 4.1.2 (Feb 2, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improved segmentation of bilingual files
  • Improved compatiblilty with Trados Studio

New in Swordfish 4.1.1 (Jan 25, 2021)

  • Fixed error when filter text contains ', % or _

New in Swordfish 4.0.5 (Jan 6, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • Improved support for XLIFF 1.2 from Articulate Rise
  • Adjusted source and target columns to have the same width

New in Swordfish 4.0.4 (Dec 31, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed conversion of Trados Studio packages

New in Swordfish 4.0.3 (Dec 13, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed handling of locked segments

New in Swordfish 4.0.2 (Dec 8, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • Suppressed output for confirmed empty targets
  • Fixed Machine Translation results when source text contains entities

New in Swordfish 4.0.1 (Dec 3, 2020)

  • New:
  • Improved support for XLIFF 1.2
  • Improved User Guide

New in Swordfish 4.0.0 (Nov 30, 2020)

  • Completed User Guide
  • Added Getting Started Guide

New in Swordfish 3.5.6 (Sep 7, 2020)

  • Fixed XML catalog handling.

New in Swordfish 3.5.5 (Sep 3, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed conversion of TXLF files.

New in Swordfish 3.5.4 (Aug 26, 2020)

  • New:
  • Improved support for XLIFF 2.0
  • Upgraded OpenXLIFF Filters to version 1.10.0.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed conversion of some Trados Studio Packages.

New in Swordfish 3.5.3 (Aug 24, 2020)

  • New:
  • Added support for Schema ST4.
  • Implemented conversion of 3rd party XLIFF files to Swordfish XLIFF.

New in Swordfish 3.5.2 (Aug 16, 2020)

  • New:
  • Improved support for HTML 5.
  • Upgraded OpenXLIFF Filters to version 1.9.2.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed conversion of Trados Studio Packages on macOS.

New in Swordfish 3.5.1 (May 22, 2020)

  • Fixed error saving third party XLIFF files.

New in Swordfish 3.5.0 (May 19, 2020)

  • New:
  • Improved Machine translation, now with support for:
  • Azure Translator Text
  • DeepL API
  • Google Cloud Translation
  • MyMemory API
  • Yandex Translate API
  • Improved entity resolution in catalog manager.
  • Added XInclude to default XML catalog
  • Upgraded OpenXLIFF Filters to version 1.9.0.
  • Fixes:
  • Ignored untranslatable segments when checking for unapproved ones and tag or space errors at reverse conversion.

New in Swordfish 3.4.9 (Apr 18, 2020)

  • New:
  • Upgraded OpenXLIFF Filters to version 1.8.3.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed conversion of PO files.

New in Swordfish 3.4.8 (Apr 11, 2020)

  • New:
  • Implemented support for Trados Studio packages.
  • Upgraded OpenXLIFF Filters to version 1.8.2.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed strange matches from Internal TM databases.
  • Included missing ICE matches in status history

New in Swordfish 3.4.7 (Mar 23, 2020)

  • New:
  • Changed segmentation model for files converted to XLIFF 2.0.
  • Upgraded OpenXLIFF Filters to version 1.7.0.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed XLIFF file splitting.
  • Removed "origin" attribute added by "Add Term" dialog when exporting databases as TMX.

New in Swordfish 3.4.6 (Dec 2, 2019)

  • New:
  • Added conversion of XLIFF from WPML WordPress plugin to cleaner XLIFF.
  • ?Moved SRXEditor to separate installers.
  • ?Upgraded OpenXLIFF Filters to version 1.6.0.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed crash in spell checker dialog.

New in Swordfish 3.4.5 (Oct 21, 2019)

  • New:
  • Notarized apps for macOS Catalina.
  • Improved support for XML catalogs.
  • Improved support for empty <xref/> elements in DITA.

New in Swordfish 3.4.4 (Aug 1, 2019)

  • Fixed access permissions creating XLIFF from Generic XML on Windows.
  • Fixed handling accented characters in Azure Machine Translation.

New in Swordfish 3.4.3 (Jul 1, 2019)

  • New:
  • Updated libraries.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bilingual term extraction in Anchovy.

New in Swordfish 3.4.1 (May 31, 2019)

  • New:
  • Increased compatibility with Open XLIFF Filters.
  • Migrated to Java 12.
  • Fixes:
  • Re-enabled trial requests.

New in Swordfish 3.4.0 (May 1, 2019)

  • New:
  • Added graphical representation to translation status analysis.
  • Implemented support for V3 of Microsoft Azure Translation API.
  • Switched to Open XLIFF Filters for file processing and faster XML support.
  • Removed TTX Exchange.
  • Removed support for RTF, Tagged RTF, TTX and PHP Arrays.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed conversion to/from XLIFF 2.0.

New in Swordfish 3.3-24 (Jan 19, 2019)

  • New:
  • Migrated to Java 11.
  • Added option to accept all Machine Translations.
  • Preserved Machine Translations when applying TM to all segments.
  • Added option to remove a match from Internal databases.

New in Swordfish 3.3-23 (Aug 30, 2018)

  • Fixed bug on TMX import.

New in Swordfish 3.3-22 (Aug 27, 2018)

  • New:
  • Improved support for Hunspell dictionaries.
  • Added option to convert XLIFF 2.0 to XLIFF 1.2 and back.
  • Fixes:
  • Changed encoding of Russian dictionary (ru_RU.zip) to UTF-8.

New in Swordfish 3.3-21 (Jul 16, 2018)

  • Improved IDML filter, reducing tags by merging fragments with similar styles.
  • Completely new installer for Windows that allows full OS integration.
  • Simplified installation on macOS.

New in Swordfish 3.3-20 (May 14, 2018)

  • New:
  • Updated license terms.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed paragraph segmentation for XML files.
  • Changed DITA filter to use @href as fallback mechanism when the key referenced by @keyref doesn't exist

New in Swordfish 3.3-19 (Apr 20, 2018)

  • New:
  • Migrated to Java 10
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed translation preview on Windows 10.

New in Swordfish 3.3-18 (Apr 19, 2018)

  • Fixes:
  • Improved filtering of DITA resources marked with @translate="no".
  • Fixed duplicated entries when exporting databases as TMX.

New in Swordfish 3.3-17 (Feb 27, 2018)

  • Fixed entities handling in ignored XML elements.
  • Fixed bilingual term extraction in Anchovy for macOS.

New in Swordfish 3.3-16 (Jan 2, 2018)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed support for Visio files.
  • Fixed language matching in Terminology Consistency Analysis.
  • Fixed export options in Anchovy.

New in Swordfish 3.3-15 (Dec 6, 2017)

  • Migrated to Java 9.
  • Improved display of untranslatable text in preview of XLIFF 1.2.

New in Swordfish 3.3-14 (Aug 2, 2017)

  • New:
  • Added option to store translations in TM database when converting XLIFF to original format using CLI (Command Line Interface).
  • Added new CLI options for creating and removing Internal databases.
  • Added option to export databases as TMX using CLI.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed handling of nested inline XML elements marked with translate="no" that contain XML entities in the text

New in Swordfish 3.3-13 (May 22, 2017)

  • New: Added support for DITA files exported from SDL CMS.
  • Added support for PHP arrays.

New in Swordfish 3.3-12 (Apr 27, 2017)

  • New:
  • Replaced Microsoft's Bing Translator MT engine with the new Azure based Microsoft Translator.
  • Improved handling of <mrk> tags.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed handling of translatable attributes in XML inline elements.
  • Fixed handling of untranslatable @keyref nested inside untranslatable @conref in DITA files.

New in Swordfish 3.3-11 (Mar 17, 2017)

  • New:
  • Improved support for XLIFF files from WordBee with embedded HTML markup.
  • Improved generation of <ph> tags from XML files for better matching.
  • Fixes:
  • Corrected bug in IDML filter that affected layout of translated files.
  • Fixed regression error with empty content in elements with @conkeyref attribute in DITA files.

New in Swordfish 3.3-10 (Mar 7, 2017)

  • New: Added "ICE" matches count to Translation Status History
  • Fixes: Fixed count of "New" words in Translation Status History
  • Fixed support for conref-push and emptied content of elements with @conkeyref attribute in DITA files.

New in Swordfish 3.3-9 (Jan 23, 2017)

  • New:
  • Improved handling of tags in XML filter to support tag reordering.
  • Added support for locked text marked with <mrk mtyp="protected">...<mrk>
  • Adopted translation configuration for the 600+ DITA elements defined in Appendix B.6 of DITA 1.3 All-Inclusive Edition.
  • Implemented automatic configuration of elements defined in custom DITA specializations.
  • Implemented support for @translate="no" in inline DITA elements.
  • Added count of not translatable words to translation status analysis.
  • Fixes:
  • Restored support for @translate="no" at block level in DITA files.

New in Swordfish 3.3-8 (Dec 13, 2016)

  • New:
  • Added option to mark all segments as untranslatable at once.
  • Added option to remove all matches from current segment.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed handling of URLs in footnotes of Word documents.
  • Fixed comparisson of spaces when retrieving TM matches for XML formats that require space preservation.

New in Swordfish 3.3-7 (Nov 6, 2016)

  • New:
  • Updated DITA 1.3 grammars to Version 1.3 Errata 01.
  • Improved handling of undefined keys in DITA filter.
  • Fixes:
  • Closed splash screen before displaying database related errors.
  • Fixed selection of "nextCatalog" in XML catalog manager.
  • Fixed preview of XLIFF files generated by Okapi Framework.
  • Fixed conversion of TMX to GlossML in Anchovy for files with non-ASCII characters in their names.

New in Swordfish 3.3-6 (Nov 6, 2016)

  • New:
  • Removed requirement to open port 9080 in firewalls for registering licenses.
  • Added link to this Release History in Help menu.
  • Fixes:
  • Converted XML entities returned by Google Machine Translation to regular characters.
  • Fixed display of data origin in matches panel.

New in Swordfish 3.3-5 (Oct 7, 2016)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed support for format="html" and scope="external" when harvesting keys in DITA filter
  • Restored support for @conref resolution in DITA files with multiple topic elements

New in Swordfish 3.3-4 (Sep 26, 2016)

  • New:
  • Implemented option to add current translation status to history using CLI (Command Line Interface)
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed word counts for Chinese
  • Avoided infinit loops when parsing relationship tables in DITA files
  • Fixed support for "nextCatalog" in XML catalog manager
  • Fixed support for "book" files in DocBook XML filter

New in Swordfish 3.3-3 (Sep 26, 2016)

  • New:
  • Improved support for DITA projects that contain files in multiple character sets.
  • Improved configuration files for DITA.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bug in case insensitive TM searches.
  • Corrected criteria for counting ICE matches in Translation Status Analysis report.
  • Stopped jumping to next unapproved/untranslated segment on approving targets with spelling errors.

New in Swordfish 3.3-2 (Jul 11, 2016)

  • New:
  • Automatically removed extra markup added by SDL Trados Studio to XLIFF files from Swordfish
  • Added support for extracting context text from elements when @keyref is used in an empty DITA element
  • Implemented support for tracked changes in IDML files
  • Added support for MIF 2015 (FrameMaker 13)
  • Fixes:
  • Preserved content of elements with @conref or @conkeyref attributes when importing translated XLIFF from DITA files
  • Fixed handling of elements when parsing DITA files
  • Fixed harvesting of keys from secondary DITA maps
  • Fixed handling of @href in elements of DITA maps

New in Swordfish 3.3-1 (Mar 7, 2016)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bug in "Approve All Translations" that may place wrong translation in a previously visited segment.

New in Swordfish 3.3-0 (Mar 7, 2016)

  • New:
  • Updated GUI design.
  • Improved performance of word count generation and other processes.
  • Improved support for DITA 1.2.
  • Implemented support for push replace in DITA filter.
  • Added official DITA 1.3 grammar to the catalog.
  • Implemented optional auto-disable/auto-register for Site Licenses.
  • Implemented leveraging ICE matches using CLI (Command Line Interface).
  • Implemented marking repeated segments as untranslatable using CLI (Command Line Interface).
  • Implemented marking all segments as translatable using CLI (Command Line Interface).
  • Upgraded Java to version 1.8_74 in all installers.
  • Updated HTML preview stylesheets.
  • Switched to 64 bit architecture.
  • Moved validation plugins to separate packages.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed conversion using CLI (Command Line Interface) on Windows.
  • Fixed bug in IDML filter that resulted in invalid empty XLIFF files.

New in Swordfish 3.2-6 (Sep 14, 2015)

  • New:
  • Implemented support for custom DITA attributes from Astoria CMS
  • Improved tooltip display on mouse over
  • Upgraded Java to version 1.8_60 in all installers
  • Modified Find/Replace dialog to ignore tag content when searching
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed Find/Replace dialog to support dotted/undotted "i" character in case insensitive searches on Turkish and Azerbaijani
  • Fixed content references resolution in DITA filter

New in Swordfish 3.2-5 (Jul 16, 2015)

  • New: Upgraded Java to version 1.8_51 in all installers.
  • Fixes: Fixed connection to Google Machine Translation Engine.

New in Swordfish 3.2-4 (Jul 11, 2015)

  • New:
  • New filter for DITA maps with focus on DITA 1.2.
  • Switched to DITA 1.2 catalog as default for DITA maps.
  • Added support for SubjectScheme.
  • Implemented support for displaying @conkeyref text in extracted segments.
  • Added support for DITA Troubleshooting (DITA 1.3).
  • Upgraded Java to version 1.8_045 in all installers.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bug in auto-save routine that could overwrite files not created with Swordfish.
  • Fixed resource leak that could trigger a "No more handles" error on Windows 7.

New in Swordfish 3.2-3 (Jul 11, 2015)

  • New:
  • Enabled preview for MQXLIFF files.
  • Added support for Adobe LiveCycle .xdp files.
  • Added support for XLIFF files from Fluenta.
  • Added support for "navtitle" attribute in element of DITA maps.
  • Enabled license registration from command line interface
  • Fixes:
  • Remembered size and location of the program.
  • Fixed handling of '&' in XML attributes that contain URLs.

New in Swordfish 3.2-2 (Mar 14, 2015)

  • Fixed terminology searches and automatic term display.

New in Swordfish 3.2-1 (Mar 14, 2015)

  • New:
  • Included Java 8 in all installers.
  • Added support for XLIFF files with text in CDATA sections.
  • Implemented extraction of text from CDATA sections in XML files.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed XSL transformations of files with spaces in their names.

New in Swordfish 3.2-0 (Jul 4, 2014)

  • New:
  • Improved Internal database engine speed and reliability.
  • Simplified XLIFF conversion dialog.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed term extraction with Anchovy on Windows.
  • Fixed dictionary downloads on Windows.

New in Swordfish 3.1-2 (Feb 18, 2014)

  • New:
  • Implemented preview for third party XLIFF files with proprietary extensions.
  • Fixes:
  • Restored command line scripts on Windows and Mac OS X
  • Fixed TM matching issues on Windows.

New in Swordfish 3.1-1 (Feb 13, 2014)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed retrieval of TM matches from Internal databases.

New in Swordfish 3.1-0 (Feb 10, 2014)

  • New:
  • Improved support for third party XLIFF files with proprietary extensions.
  • New TM engine with improved performance.
  • Upgraded XLIFFChecker to version 1.0-9
  • Separate installers for 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows.
  • Implemented file drag & drop in conversion to XLIFF dialog.

New in Swordfish 3.0-15 (Jul 8, 2013)

  • New:
  • Implemented support for Yandex.Translate v1.5
  • Added new command line options:
  • Export XLIFF file as TMX
  • Import TMX file
  • Generate translation status analysis
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed glossary creation in Anchovy.

New in Swordfish 3.0-14c (Mar 22, 2013)

  • Fixed concordance search.

New in Swordfish 3.0-14b (Mar 19, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • Restored automatic language selection when adding terms to a database.

New in Swordfish 3.0-14 (Mar 16, 2013)

  • New:
  • Changed language codes support from ISO codes to BCP47 standard.
  • Improved protection of preferences file.
  • Removed closing delay for Internal databases.
  • Added option to filter segments with and without TM matches.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed import of CSV files with less than 3 columns.
  • Fixed handling of multiple translatable attributes in DITA elements.
  • Restored Change Case functionality.
  • Fixed segmentation bug when using command line.

New in Swordfish 3.0-13 (Oct 25, 2012)

  • New:
  • Improved import of CSV files.
  • Upgraded Anchovy to version 1.0-6.
  • Added support for TXML files with revision information.
  • Improved support for XLIFF files from Sawtooth.
  • Added support for Yandex.Translate machine translation engine.
  • Added option for applying MT to all unapproved segments.
  • Added command line option for applying MT to an XLIFF file.
  • Removed content of DITA elements with "conref" attribute when converting to original format.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed encoding support in JavaScript filter.
  • Fixed handling of attributes containing HTML links with "&" signs in XML files.

New in Swordfish 3.0-12 (Aug 3, 2012)

  • New:
  • Improved compatibility with XLIFF files generated by XTM.
  • Approved segments are now saved to write-enabled database in background.
  • Added support for some non-standard PO files.
  • Implemented new OAuth-based authentication in Microsoft Bing Translator.
  • Upgraded XLIFFChecker to version 1.0-8
  • Upgraded TMXValidator to version 1.0-9
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed export of XLIFF tags to TMX.
  • Fixed conversion of IDML files with tables.

New in Swordfish 3.0-11 (Mar 12, 2012)

  • New:
  • Reduced memory requirements for large Internal databases.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed reverese conversion of Word files with translatable text in embedded drawings.
  • Fixed registration problems with some versions of Windows.
  • Fixed handling of tags with broken XML entities in MS Office documents.

New in Swordfish 3.0-8 (Dec 20, 2011)

  • New:
  • Implemented support for Bing Translator.
  • Updated Java to version 7.2 in Windows installers.
  • Fixes:
  • Enabled support for MS SQL Server with Java 7.
  • Fixed Anchovy launcher in Mac OS X 64 bit version
  • Fixed registration in some non-English Windows systems.

New in Swordfish 3.0-7 (Dec 20, 2011)

  • New:
  • Improved license registration.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed crash when closing a browser window using ESC key.

New in Swordfish 3.0-6 (Dec 20, 2011)

  • New:
  • Improved export of Internal databases, discarding damaged entries.
  • Implemented support for Google Translation API V2.
  • Added XSL stylesheet for converting TMX files to GlossML format.
  • Ignored segments containing only numbers in Office 2007 files.
  • Enabled support for Java 7.

New in Swordfish 3.0-5 (Aug 12, 2011)

  • New:
  • Improved support for soft breaks in IDML files.
  • Improved segmentation of OpenOffice files.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bug on closing terminology databases at program exit.
  • Fixed problem with Oracle databases disconnecting after saving a segment.
  • Fixed bug in translation status report.

New in Swordfish 3.0-1 (Jun 3, 2011)

  • New:
  • Added support for partially segmented XLIFF files from Okapi
  • Improved support for untranslated SDLXLIFF files
  • Fixes:
  • Discarded segments with only one language when importing TMX files
  • Fixed import of TBX files
  • Preserved properties when importing TMX files
  • Fixed freezing on Linux when using file filters
  • Normalized languages in XLIFF files created from TTX documents
  • Fixed export of GlossML files as CSV in Anchovy
  • Fixed shortcuts conflict in Windows and Linux

New in Swordfish 3.0-0 Preview (May 18, 2011)

  • New:
  • New Internal database engine.
  • Improved TMX import option.
  • New panel for displaying and filtering project files.
  • New option to bookmark segments.
  • Implemented collapsible panels for TM Matches, Auto-Translation and Terminology.
  • New option for pseudo-translating all untranslated segments.
  • Added option to clean invalid XML characters when importing TMX files.
  • Added display of write-enabled databases on main user interface.
  • Fixes:
  • Added MemoQ and Trados Studio custom XLIFF extensions to the XML catalog to suport validating their XLIFF files.
  • Fixed handling of images in DITA configuration files.
  • Fixed handling of links in HTML configuration files.

New in Swordfish 2.0-7a (Mar 26, 2011)

  • Improved support for TTX files containg segments with numbers only.
  • Fixed DITA catalogs.
  • Made import of TBX files more forgiving.

New in Swordfish 2.0-6 Build 7DA-A-E (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Improved translation status analysis.
  • Enabled closing Concordance Search results with ESC key.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed problem with spaces in MS Office filter.
  • Improved segmentation of text boxes in .docx filter.
  • Included document properties when storing translation in TM database at reverse conversion.
  • Fixed bug approving split segments.

New in Swordfish 2.0-5c (Oct 15, 2010)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bug in split segment.

New in Swordfish 2.0-5b (Oct 15, 2010)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bug in automatic tag checking.

New in Swordfish 2.0-5a (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Added configurable shortcuts for setting focus on source or target text.
  • Improved support for ResX files.
  • Improved performance.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed unexpected freezing when TM is applied in background.

New in Swordfish 2.0-5 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Implemented support for the new Microsoft Glossaries in TBX format.
  • Added new "TTX Exchange" option (export XLIFF files as TTX and import translations from translated TTX documents).
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed handling of complex hyperlinks in .docx files.
  • Updated Anchovy to version 1.0-1.

New in Swordfish 2.0-4 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Added option to search terms on the web.
  • Fixes:
  • Improved error detection in tags analysis.
  • Implemented workaround in TM engine to a void a bug in Apple's latest version of Java for OS X.
  • Fixed preview of files with diacritics in their names.

New in Swordfish 2.0-3 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Improved import CSV file to database process.
  • Enabled the following languages in GTranslate: Afrikaans; Albanian; Belarussian; Estonian; Filipino; Galician; Hungarian; Icelandic; Irish; Macedonian; Malay; Maltese; Swahili; Thai; Turkish; Welsh; Yiddish.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed speed of conversion to XLIFF when source files are large.

New in Swordfish 2.0-2 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Implemented automatic check for updates.
  • Added support for Adobe InDesign IDML files (CS4/CS5)
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed import of third party XLIFF 1.1 documents.
  • Fixed bug in PO filter.
  • Fixed bug in segment filtering.
  • Lowered priority of background TM thread.

New in Swordfish 2.0-1 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Improved Auto-Translation engine.
  • Improved support for DITA conref.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bug in Document Properties dialog.

New in Swordfish 2.0 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Improved user interface, in one large unified window and rearranged menus.
  • New project management wizard. Convert one or more source files to XLIFF format in a simplified way.
  • New faster internal database engine based on Oracle's Berkeley DB.
  • New segment filtering options.
  • Incorporated Anchovy as glossary manager and term extraction tool.
  • Added support for SDLXLIFF files from Trados Studio 2009.
  • Added support for plural forms in PO (Portable Objec) files.
  • Added support for Microsoft Visio XML Drawings.
  • Improved speed of concordance search.
  • Improved filter for .docx files that produces less tags.
  • Added optional fuzzy term matching.
  • Improved Auto-Translation engine.

New in Swordfish 1.0-17 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Implemented support for XSLT 2.0
  • Improved support for DITA.
  • Updated SRXEditor to version 1.0-2.
  • Updated configuration files for XML converter.
  • Updated XML catalog.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed minor bug in segmenter.

New in Swordfish 1.0-16 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Added French and Dutch translations.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed handling of complex hyperlinks in MS Office 2007.
  • Made XML catalog compatible with XLIFFChecker.
  • Improved support for DITA choice tables.

New in Swordfish 1.0-15 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Improved support for DITA files.
  • Included latest version of XLIFFChecker plugin.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed crashes loading XLIFF files when the toolbar is not visible.

New in Swordfish 1.0-14a (Oct 15, 2010)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed tag insertion problems.
  • Fixed reverse conversion of PowerPoint 2007 files.
  • Fixed creashes when spell checking on Cocoa build (Mac OS X).

New in Swordfish 1.0-14 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Added XLIFFChecker plugin.
  • Added German, Japanese, Turkish and Ukrainian translations.
  • Added support for math formulae in OpenOffice documents.
  • Fixes:
  • Corrected handling of XML entities when editing source.
  • Corrected handling of guillemets in target text.

New in Swordfish 1.0-13 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Re-written GTranslate plugin using Google's own code.
  • Noticeably improved speed of MySQL databases.
  • Added Support for Microsoft SQL Server. (Java 1.6 required)
  • Improved database selection dialogs.
  • Improved graphics.
  • Added new installer for Windows with Java 1.6 included.
  • Fixes:
  • Improved handling of unusual entities in HTML filter.

New in Swordfish 1.0-12a (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Separate Carbon and Cocoa builds now available for Mac OS X.
  • Fixes:
  • Downgraded SWT library in Linux versions to support distributions with older or incomplete Firefox/XULRunner packages.

New in Swordfish 1.0-12 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Added support for DocBook 4.1.2.
  • Improved support for glossary elements in DITA documents.
  • Added Croatian translation.
  • Upgraded GUI framework from Carbon to Cocoa on Mac OS X.
  • Fixes:
  • Added workaround for a bug in MS Word 2007/2008 regarding space handling in .docx files.
  • Active dictionary is now disposed when documents are closed.
  • Fixed notes handling on Mac OS X.

New in Swordfish 1.0-11 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Added support for TXML (WordFast PRO) format.
  • Fixes:
  • Made GTranslate Google friendlier.
  • Fixed bug in TM Matches panel to allow display of all auto-propagated matches.
  • Included correct plugin configuration in Linux installers.
  • Created output folder at reverse conversion of DITA maps when it doesn't exist.
  • Fixed Spell Check Document.
  • Fixed crash on Split XLIFF File option.

New in Swordfish 1.0-10 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Highlighted differences with TM matches in source text.
  • Added support for glued TTX files.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed handling of numeric expressions in Auto-Translate.

New in Swordfish 1.0-9a (Oct 15, 2010)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed crash when closing a file after spellchecking.
  • Fixed handling of ESC key in internal spell checker dialog.

New in Swordfish 1.0-9 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Implemented support for SRX 2.0.
  • Added SRXEditor as plugin.
  • Moved user data to user space, to avoid permission problems in Windows Vista.
  • Added support for DITA bookmaps.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bug in conversion of ResX files.

New in Swordfish 1.0-8 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Added German and Norwegian translations.
  • Enabled inserting terms by double-clicking on Terminology panel.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed support for text boxes in .docx files.

New in Swordfish 1.0-7a (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Added GTranslate plugin that enables translating single segments or complete files using Google's machine translation engine.

New in Swordfish 1.0-7 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Added segmentation rules for Japanese.
  • Fixes:
  • Changed handling of unsegmented numeric expressions in TTX filter.
  • Fixed handling of curly apostrophes on RTF filter.
  • Fixed recognition of accented characters in MIF filter.
  • Fixed crash when revisiting Document Properties dialog after making changes.

New in Swordfish 1.0-6 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Added Galician translation.
  • Implemented term recognition for Thai.
  • Added support for DocBook 4.5.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bug in filter for MS Office 2007 that affected heavily formatted documents.
  • Corrected catalog entries for DocBook 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4.
  • Fixed crashes when searching for empty text.
  • Fixed bug in CSV import.

New in Swordfish 1.0-5a (Oct 15, 2010)

  • Fixes:
  • Corrected bug in TTX filter.

New in Swordfish 1.0-5 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Implemented generation of a unified XLIFF file for all topics of a DITA Map.
  • Swordfish now asks to save pending changes before converting an XLIFF file to original format.
  • Added CSVConverter plugin to Swordfish installers.
  • Redesigned horizontal layout, with enhanced context display.
  • Fixes:
  • Corrected detection of target character set at reverse conversion of HTML and PPTX files.
  • Replaced TTX filter with a new one.
  • Fixed bugs with hidden text in Tagged RTF filter.
  • Fixed omitted spaces after tags in RTF filter.

New in Swordfish 1.0-4 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Automatically search for translations when jumping to next/previous untranslated or unapproved segment.
  • New launchers for Microsoft Windows that read the amount of memory to use from a configuration file (MAX_MEMORY).
  • Improved "Apply TM to All Segments".
  • Fixes:
  • Removed unnecessary requests to save files.
  • Fixed bug in "Apply TM to Current Segment". Segments are now refreshed when translations are added.
  • Moved preferences to ~/Library/Preferences/Maxprograms on Mac OS X.

New in Swordfish 1.0-3a (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Added Portuguese translation.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bug in segment filtering.
  • Restored plugins in Linux installers.

New in Swordfish 1.0-3 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Added support for .ts (Qt Linguist) files.
  • Added segment filtering with multiple criteria.
  • Added option for displaying next/previous segment with notes.
  • Added Spanish translation.
  • Improved term recognition engine.
  • Differentiated between case sensitive TM and Term searches.

New in Swordfish 1.0-2 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • Added option to leverage in-context exact matches from previously translated XLIFF files.
  • Added Russian translation of the User Guide.
  • Enabled support for hyphenated terms in Terminology panel.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bug when splitting an XLIFF file in an even number of parts.
  • Fixed conversion of Excel 2007 files.
  • Fixed bug on tag differences detection with Auto QA enabled.
  • Fixed bug on "Copy Source to Target on No Match" that freezes Swordfish when opening a file on some rare cases.
  • Fixed handling of target status.

New in Swordfish 1.0-1 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • New:
  • GUI translated into Brazilian Portuguese and Ukrainian
  • Added support for special PO files produced by Translate Toolkit
  • Incremented the number of text buffers to 10
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed handling of entities when accepting matches
  • Fixed handling of entities in translatable text when tags are visible
  • Remembered default terminology database