Flare 2024 Release Notes

 Article #: GEN1076F  Product: Flare   Version: 2024

Build 20.0.8885.27072

Release Date: April 30, 2024

New Features and Improvements

  • Publish to Syndicate

  • HTML5 security updates

  • HTML5 TOC loading options

  • FrameMaker 2022 support

Bug Fixes

This release is primarily focused on the addition of the ability to publish to Xyleme Syndicate from Flare. The release also includes updates to HTML5 security, HTML5 TOC loading options, FrameMaker 2022 support, and a lot of bug fixes. 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 2024.

Customer Reported Bugs

  • 45311 - FrameMaker: Images with callouts using custom font are not imported correctly, Import: FrameMaker

  • 89760 - FrameMaker: Callout text from imported files become blurry/bold, Import: FrameMaker

  • 179953 - Acrobat review comments set with No-Color appear black when shared

  • 180647 - FrameMaker: Images with a textboxes in an anchor frame are imported incorrectly, Import: FrameMaker

  • 178377 - Possible Vulnerabilities with purify.min.js, Output: HTML5

  • 181673 - Update JQuery to 3.7, Performance

  • 183034 - DOMPurify to be updated to 3.0.8, Output: HTML5

  • 181800 - Flare 2023: DOMPurify version 2.3.6. Security Bug, Output: HTML5

  • 178978 - Print button in Topic Preview as PDF causes Flare to Close, Output: Topic Preview

  • 171238 - Top Nav Menu is Last Thing to Load in Output, Toolbars / Menus

  • 178444 - Meta tag is stripped out when building in 2022, Metadata

  • 179874 - Nested entries in Menu proxies are wrapped in ul that are nested in the parent ul instead of a parent li., Output: HTML5

  • 180647 - Images with a textboxes in an anchor frame are imported incorrectly to Flare -- translated text are modified after import., Import: Framemaker

  • 180945 - Support for Adobe FrameMaker 2022 (Version 17.0.1), Import: FrameMaker

  • 181386 - Newly added topic is getting duplicated when publishing after updating it when project language is other than English (US) and an existing topic has alot of attachments (more than 104)., Integration: Zendesk

  • 181766 - HTML5 Topic Preview: Custom mediums from an imported stylesheet are not honored, Output: Topic Preview

  • 182226 - Target option: Replace reserved characters with underscores in filenames does not work, Targets

  • 182573 - CodeQL URL Scheme check vulnerabilities, Output: HTML5

  • 182639 - When target Option "Resolve CSS Variable" is off, stylesheet defined variables used in skin are still being resolved., Skins

  • 182812 - Zendesk Connector: Published images are broken when viewing articles in the Help Center, Integration: Zendesk

  • 182970 - Madbuild does not release floating license when process is cancelled, Output: General

  • 183109 - Madbuild is failing to publish to Central (JSON method), Integration: MadCap Central

  • 183194 - Index Entries Sorted with Classical Alphanumerical Order for PDF Output, Index

  • 183233 - Zendesk: Image gets deleted from articles if it's used more than once, Integration: Zendesk

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

  • 183002 - Flare build do not have their branch name in the title bar, shortcut, nor control panel's programs and features, Install/Uninstall

  • 101359 - Print button from topic toolbar includes the header and menu proxy for printing - HTML5 Top Navigation Output, Output: HTML5 Frameless

  • 129650 - Text in HTML5 Top Navigation Menu heading flickers as you navigate between topics, Output: HTML5 Frameless

  • 129653 - HTML5 Top Navigation Menu heading flickers due to header size changes as you navigate between topics if menu extends more than 1 line, Output: HTML5 Frameless

  • 179062 - Branding editor- Table styles are not showing in PDF output, Output: Native PDF

  • 179973 - Flare's REDISTRB file needs to be updated, Install/Uninstall

  • 180580 - Storage Limit Exceeded Errors Encountered During Salesforce Publishing, Integration: Salesforce

  • 183069 - Hovering over a top navigation menu folder causes the folder name to turn white after removing focus, Output: HTML5

  • 183074 - Embed visible TOC entries in generated topics option has no affect on topics inside a sub folder, Output: HTML5

  • 183104 - Search auto-complete is missing from the live preview, Skins

  • 183108 - Build failed error when building a target that has elastic search enabled, Output: HTML5

  • 183110 - Clicking on a book in tablet/ mobile medium will open the topic linked to the book instead of expanding the book, Output: HTML5

  • 183191 - "Locked By Other User" message is shown when trying to unbind project bound to central., Integration: MadCap Central

  • 183199 - Proxy options are hidden from the Skin editor for hiDPI, Targets

  • 183223 - Side navigation is auto expanded when Embed Visible TOC Entries is enable but Automatically Sync TOC is disabled., Output: HTML Frameless

  • 183224 - Getting Build failed when building a target and there's a linked TOC or browse sequence using Linked header variable in the target TOC., Output: HTML5

  • 183259 - Embed Visible TOC Entries option is causing the sub-entries from linked file not to load in the output, Output: HTML5 Frameless

  • 183268 - Console error for this project when % character is in TOC label, Output: HTML5

  • 183269 - SimCorp project is taking more time to compile using release branch build when the Embed Visible TOC Entries option is disabled., Output: HTML5

  • 183272 - "Embed Visible TOC Entries" option is causing the book for sub-entries from linked file not to expand when clicking on the book's text, Output: HTML5 Frameless

  • 183290 - Remove reference to IE in "Add Content to Head" option in targets, Targets

  • 183291 - Mimic movie link in TOC is being removed from the output when "Embed visible TOC Entries" option is enabled, Output: HTML5 Frameless

  • 183354 - Getting an ORE when building this project, Output: HTML5 Frameless

  • 183364 - Republishing after updating more than two topics sharing the same image is breaking the image link for updated topics except the last one.,

Attribution:

Last updated:

April 30, 2024

Author:

Marvin Mallari

Contributions by:

MadCap QA