Flare 2023 r2 Release Notes

 Article #: GEN1075F  Product: Flare   Version: 2023 r2

Build 19.1.8677.41286

Release Date: October 5, 2023

New Features and Improvements

  • Branding Editor

  • CSS Variable Enhancements

  • EU Server support (starting October 19th)

Bug Fixes

The changes in the Flare 2023 r2 release are focused on the addition of the Branding Editor and CSS variable enhancements, along with the ability to upload projects to Central via the EU Server (starting October 19th). To read more about the new features, please visit our What's New topic in the online Help. The following is a list of customer-reported issues that are fixed in Flare 2023.

Customer Reported Bugs

  • 79803 - Flare converts absolute links to relative links when copy and pasting files to new location

  • 176699 - Merge conflicts causing Flare Git functions to hang

  • 86892 - CSS3 property not properly honored in outputs (background-size)

  • 121966 - Background-size property does not render correctly in XML Editor

  • 154640 - Unable to edit table caption in print layout if it appears after a page break

  • 175734 - Detect button for Source Control Destination File not working with Git Bindings

  • 177335 - Exception thrown when zipping and removing bindings from a project that is bound to TFS or Perforce

  • 180937 - Exporting Flare project with flattening variables enabled will cause TOC node in exported project to be an undefined variable

  • 181124 - Vimeo videos cause script error when URL is used in multimedia tool

  • 181779 - Hard crash when generating reports with option "Print report after generation" on

  • 182167 - CSS variables for p.TOC elements doesn't take in effect with :root selector.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

  • 181630 - "Resolve CSS Variables" target setting is not applied to all output files

  • 181775 - Background property in Topics.css, Styles.css,Tablet.css and mobile.css is missing "top" value compared to the output generated from Flare 2023

  • 181929 - Background stylesheet property is not shown in the XML editor nor Print output when it has a position value

  • 177335 - Exception thrown when zipping and removing bindings from a project that is bound to TFS or Perforce

  • 181779 - Hard crash when generating reports with option "Print report after generation" on

  • 181727 - Remove outdated "You need a PDF Viewer to view PDF files." Error when building PDF targets.

  • 181823 - Remove unreferenced images is causing topic toolbar buttons to lose their icons due to changing the skin's code upon saving Tripane skins

  • 180965 - Source Control: Git and Central- Flare hangs when importing from Central Via SSH and libgit2

  • 182012 - System.argumentNull Exception when clicking Font/Paragraph properties

  • 181942 - TOC is listed as the last folder in project organizer.

  • 177892 - Flare/Git: Do not allow duplicate branch names with different case Documentation

Attribution:

Last updated:

October 5, 2023

Author:

Marvin Mallari

Contributions by:

MadCap QA