Release Notes

These release notes contain information about bug fixes and new features.

QA Distiller 10.12.13 released on 15-12-2022

Bug fix

  • Visual issue with the sidebar has been fixed.

New features

  • The Protect Source option has been elevated from sdlxliff to all forms of xlf.
  • False positives are no longer generated when using a tbx file with empty target segments.
  • Processing speed of tbx files has been improved.

QA Distiller 10 released on 30-09-2022

New features

  • A completely overhauled user interface.
  • X-Editor has been renamed to Edit Mode and is easier to access.
  • Managing settings (QA Settings, File Settings etc.) is more user-friendly.
  • Non-edited fuzzy matches in sdlxliff files can now be reported.
  • Profiles have become easier to manage.
  • The Dictionary tool has been streamlined.
  • The log file tracks if the regular expression check was enabled during QA.

QA Distiller 9.4.4 released on 18-01-2022

Bug fix

  • Fixed a rare issue where Khmer language was not displayed in the X-Editor when certain conditions were met.

QA Distiller 9.4.3 released on 22-11-2021

Bug fix

  • Deleting a language via Setup > Language Codes now deletes the correct files.

QA Distiller 9.4.2 released on 10-05-2021

Bug fixes

  • The source consistency check now correctly checks if all inconsistencies are in the dictionary based on the source dictionary terms instead of the target dictionary terms

New feature

  • MemoQ linebreaks encoded via mq:ch are now detected

QA Distiller 9.4.1 released on 1-02-2021

Bug fixes

  • Improved tag/id aware terminology support

New features

  • Added International Glossary functionality

QA Distiller 9.3.10 released on 1-12-2020

Bug fixes

  • Avoid duplicates in inconsistency check

New features

  • Dictionary import tool improvements: Extended language code list and automatic language detection
  • Installer allows installation in user path

QA Distiller 9.3.9 released on 30-09-2020

Bug fixes

  • TBX dictionary checking
  • Improved number formatting

New features

  • Locked icon is shown in error detail for all errors
  • memoQ and WorldServer specific locked text is visualized as such
  • Ignore written numbers before measurement units
  • Inconsistency check also checks sentence without (different) cross referenced text

QA Distiller 9.3.8 released on 03-07-2020

Bug fixes

  • Exact error location in error message for corrupt XML files

New features

  • Added support for Mongolian (Cyrillic) language
  • Improved Greek regular expressions

QA Distiller 9.3.7 released on 28-05-2020

Bug fixes

  • Dictionary check does not give an error if two overlapped source entries have the same translation
  • Fixed issue with hardspace character on Japanese Windows OS
  • Improved error message for corrupt XML files

New features

  • Improved license check: fallback server + retries
  • Support for centralized version rollouts
  • More consistent regression test

QA Distiller 9.3.5 released on 01-04-2020

Bug fixes

  • Improved X-editor stability
  • Improved visualisation of locked segments

New features

  • New license server & certificate signing
  • Improved number formatting check
  • Speedup of scrolling in bilingual files with a large number of subfiles

QA Distiller 9.1.10 released on 22-06-2018

Bug fixes

  • Number formatting errors not detected for languages without spaces

QA Distiller 9.1.9 released on 01-12-2017

Bug fixes

  • False warings are generated by memoQ tags in mqxliff files
  • QA Distiller jumps to wrong error location in X-Editor with memory efficient XML modifier enabled
  • Punctuation & measurement unit spacing not always checked
  • SDL Automated Translations not always detected

New features

  • Empty file error is generated when no target content is found

QA Distiller 9.1.5 released on 21-12-2016

Bug fixes

  • Access violation when jumping to certain TMX units
  • Thai numbers not recognised
  • Wide character conversion not working
  • Regular expressions not working due to tag boundaries
  • Wrongly reported consecutive spaces around tags
  • Invalid pointer operation when reprocessing

New features

  • Faster saving in X-Editor
  • Smart sampling
  • Protect source for SDLXLIFF files
  • Report unedited and/or edited machine translations
  • Ignore 102% matches in MQXLIFF files
  • Ignore inconsistencies with ignored units
  • Ignore corrupt character when character appears in source
  • Support for Tibetan, Uzbek and Azeri added

QA Distiller 9.0.8 released on 11-08-2015

Bug fixes

  • Memory leak
  • Inconsistency check falsely returns no errors under certain circumstances
  • False inconsistency warnings with completely locked segments in SDLXLIFF
  • Some consecutive spaces are not spotted
  • Unit system error when processing

New features

  • Support for Unicode characters in qadbatch files
  • Enhanced support for whitespace in Kannada

QA Distiller 9.0.6 released on 12-03-2015

Bug fixes

  • Incorrect terminology errors when smaller entries overlap with larger ones
  • Regular expression tag errors are no longer coloured
  • White space Unicode values for spacing errors no longer shown in Excel log
  • A Call to an OS function failed when processing multiple languages with multiple dictionaries
  • Language codes are case sensitive
  • Bottom left window size not persistent
  • Inconsistency check is performed on locked text in *.ttx files
  • Certain regular expressions fail when there are 2 tags at the end of a segment
  • License check displays wrong error message when maximum number of concurrent users is reached
  • False corrupt character messages for Croatian and Macedonian

New features

  • Add all extensions that end in *.*xliff or *.*xlf (including *.mxliff)
  • Kyrgyz and Armenian added

QA Distiller 9.0.4 released on 15-12-2014

Bug fixes

  • Check for updates connects to wrong software store

QA Distiller 9.0.3 released on 12-12-2014

Bug fixes

  • False warning about unknown language codes when processing a dictionary with language codes that have alternatives specified in Language Settings
  • Dictionaries that have language codes without a locale are not automatically mapped to language codes with locale

QA Distiller 9.0.1 released on 08-12-2014

Bug fixes

  • Linebreak style changes when editing SDL XLIFF files in the X-Editor, preventing binary Office documents from cleaning
  • If main regular expression list is empty, language dependent regular expressions don't work
  • It's not possible to type accented Greek characters in the X-Editor
  • UNIX based XLIFF files are not handled properly
  • Missing required space before ℃ not reported
  • Menu items invisible but reappear after mouse-over
  • STF tag <:t> is not displayed in the grid view (tab)
  • DICT check not working for terms which include a replaced entity
  • QA Distiller jumps to wrong file if you process files with same filename in different directories
  • Incorrect search matches for double-byte languages
  • Numbers bigger than 10.000 not correctly identified in batch replacement mode

New features

  • New and faster XML parser (rejoice, no more freezes when processing big files)
  • New ignore options for SDL XLIFF files
  • Support for memoQ XLIFF files with *.mqxliff extension
  • Back references added to advanced regular expressions
  • Exclude tags from regular expressions
  • Ignore entirely capitalised segments when checking omissions
  • Add alternative language codes to automatically detect languages
  • Set non-breaking space as thousand separator
  • Warning message before resetting language settings to default
  • Improved support for non-translatable units in SDL XLIFF files
  • Show/Hide whitespace in X-Editor
  • New progress bar that reflects real progress