Swordfish III Release History

Version 3.5.6 - September 5, 2020

• Fixes:
  • Fixed XML catalog handling.

Version 3.5.5 - September 2, 2020

• Fixes:
  • Fixed conversion of TXLF files.

Version 3.5.4 - August 25, 2020

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

Version 3.5.3 - August 23, 2020

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

Version 3.5.2 - August 15, 2020

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

Version 3.5.1 - May 21, 2020

• Fixes:
  • Fixed error saving third party XLIFF files.

Version 3.5.0 - May 18, 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.

Version 3.4.9 - April 17, 2020

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

Version 3.4.8 - April 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

Version 3.4.7 - March 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.

Version 3.4.6 - December 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.

Version 3.4.5 - October 8, 2019

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

Version 3.4.4 - July 31, 2019

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

Version 3.4.3 - June 30, 2019

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

Version 3.4-2 - June 8, 2019

• Fixes:
  • Fixed conversion to original format of XLIFF files with merged/split segments.

Version 3.4-1 - May 30, 2019

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

Version 3.4-0 - April 30, 2019

• New:
  • Added graphical representation to translation status analysis.
  • Implemented support for V3 of Microsoft Azure Translation API.
  • Switched to OpenXLIFF 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.

Version 3.3-24 - January 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.

Version 3.3-23 - August 29, 2018

• Fixes:
  • Fixed bug on TMX import.

Version 3.3-22 - August 25, 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.

Version 3.3-21 - July 13, 2018

• New:
  • 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.

Version 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.

Version 3.3-19 - April 19, 2018

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

Version 3.3-18 - April 1, 2018

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

Version 3.3-17 - February 27. 2018

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

Version 3.3-16 - December 31, 2017

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

Version 3.3-15 - December 6, 2017

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

Version 3.3-14 - August 1, 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.

Version 3.3-13 - May 19, 2017

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

Version 3.3-12 - April 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.

Version 3.3-11 - March 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.

Version 3.3-10 - March 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.

Version 3.3-9 - January 22, 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.

Version 3.3-8 - December 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 where space preservation is required.

Version 3.3-7 - November 4, 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.
  • Fixed plugins configuration on Linux

Version 3.3-6 - October 19, 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.

Version 3.3-5 - October 6, 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.

Version 3.3-4 - September 26, 2016

• New:
  • Implemented option to add current translation status to history using CLI (Command Line Interface).
• Fixes:
  • Fixed word counts for Chinese.
  • Avoided infinite 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.

Version 3.3-3 - July 11, 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.

Version 3.3-2 - April 19, 2016

• New:
  • Automatically removed extra markup added by SDL Trados Studio to XLIFF files from Swordfish.
  • Added support for extracting context text from <topicmeta> 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 <url> elements when parsing DITA files.
  • Fixed harvesting of keys from secondary DITA maps.
  • Fixed handling of @href in <chapter> elements of DITA maps.

Version 3.3-1 - March 7, 2016

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

Version 3.3-0 - February 26, 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.
  • Fixed error on Mac OS X when approving all segments with a write-enabled database.

Version 3.2-6 - September 11, 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.

Version 3.2-5 - July 15, 2015

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

Version 3.2-4 - July 3, 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_45 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.

Version 3.2-3 - June 12, 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 <chapter> 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.

Version 3.2-2 - March 13, 2015

• Fixes:
  • Fixed terminology searches and automatic term display.

Version 3.2-1 - March 4, 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.
  • Moved shell script for command line processing out of Swordfish.app on Mac OS X.
• Fixes:
  • Fixed display of BiDi languages on Mac OS X.
  • Fixed XSL transformations of files with spaces in their names.

Version 3.2-0 - June 27, 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.

Version 3.1-2 - February 17, 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.

Version 3.1-1 - February 12, 2014

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

Version 3.1-0 - February 9, 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.

Version 3.0-15 - June 30, 2013

• New:
  • Implemented support for Yandex.Translate v1.5
  • Added new command line options: export XLIFF file as TMX, import TMX file and generate translation status analysis.
• Fixes:
  • Fixed glossary creation in Anchovy.

Version 3.0-14c - March 21, 2013

• Fixes:
  • Fixed concordance search.

Version 3.0-14b - March 18, 2013

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

Version 3.0-14 - March 15, 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.

Version 3.0-13 - October 24, 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.

Version 3.0-12 - July 20, 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 <g> tags to TMX.
  • Fixed conversion of IDML files with tables.

Version 3.0-11 - March 9, 2012

• New:
  • Reduced memory requirements for large Internal databases.
• Fixes:
  • Fixed reverse 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.

Version 3.0-10 - January 26, 2012

• New:
  • Implemented bilingual term extraction from TMX documents in Anchovy.
• Fixes:
  • Fixed bug on applying translations from TM when converting documents to XLIFF.
  • Fixed reverse conversion of ResX files.

Version 3.0-9 - January 8, 2012

• New:
  • Added option in Anchovy for converting TMX files to GlossML format.
  • Improved support for SDLXLIFF files.
• Fixes:
  • Restored caching of RemoteTM databases.

Version 3.0-8 - December 19, 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.

Version 3.0-7 - November 23, 2011

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

Version 3.0-6 - October 31, 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.

Version 3.0-5 - August 7, 2011

• New:
  • Updated installers to support Mac OS X Lion (10.7)
  • 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.

Version 3.0-4 - July 17, 2011

• New:
  • Upgraded XLIFFChecker to version 1.0-6
  • Applied current filter to HTML preview.
  • Improved support for third party XLIFF files.
• Fixes:
  • Fixed problem with segment number text box in Mac OS X.

Version 3.0-3 - July 3, 2011

• New:
  • Added full screen mode.
  • Improved support for tables in IDML files.
• Fixes:
  • Remembered language pair when storing terms or individual segments in Internal databases.
  • Restored the fix for handling of images in DITA in Windows installers.
  • Fixed conversion to original format of XLIFF files from DITA Maps with embedded skeletons.
  • Fixed bug in tags analysis.
  • Fixed display of concordance search results on Linux.

Version 3.0-2 - June 16, 2011

• New:
  • Enabled support for RemoteTM LAN Server.
  • Implemented additional data integrity checking when closing databases in Internal database engine.
  • Skipped untranslatable segments when spell checking document.

Version 3.0-1 - June 2, 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.

Version 3.0-0a - May 24, 2011

• Fixes:
  • Fixed display of bookmarks on Linux.
  • Fixed saving segments to SQL based databases.

Swordfish III - May 21, 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.
  • Fixed display of term searches on MySQL databases.