Flare 2025 Release Notes

 Article #: GEN1025F  Product: Flare  Version: 2025

Build 21.0.9249.40071

Release Date: April 29, 2025

New Features and Improvements

  • Syndicate Publishing Enhancement

  • Ability to accept review topics and maintain changes

  • Enhance Madbuild support for JSON config files

  • Added support for Complex Scripting Languages, for example Thai, Lao, Khmer

  • HTML 5 Security Updates

    • Updated JQuery to 3.7.1

    • Updated RequireJS to 2.3.7

    • Updated DOMPurify to 3.2.4

 

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 2025.

Customer Reported Bugs

  • 184414 - Accessibility issue: Title toolbar is not accessibility compliant

  • 186376 - Accessibility: Elasticsearch keyboard trap when navigating HTML5 Outputs

  • 184034 - Chromium Upgrade to the Latest Version

  • 186478 - Accept Review File and Keep Tracked Changes

  • 186410 - Snippet in table footer, conditioned to exclude, is still showing up in the preview/output

  • 82129 - Cannot apply conditions to foot note text

  • 185938 - Flare 2024 r2: Image preview does not load remote SVG Images

  • 186019 - SVG text is jumbled up in XML Editor, PDF & PPT Output. (HTML5 is ok)

  • 55138 - Certain SVG images show as "Load failed" in the WYS but render fine in outputs.

  • 181117 - Loss of image quality when image has the thumbnail popup property enabled

  • 185442 - Salesforce publish fails with “Publish failed: DUPLICATE_VALUE"

  • 186078 - Salesforce republish failed after using Dataloader to edit contents on a custom field

  • 183839 - Publish fails when republishing after referencing a new image in a topic.

  • 186282 - Publish failed "No Record found : Record doesn't exist or ACL restricts the record retrieval" error when deleting a topic(s) in ServiceNow and republishing after deleting the same topic(s) in Flare.

  • 168293 - Getting "No Record found : Record doesn't exist or ACL restricts the record retrieval" when republishing after deleting a topic(s) in Flare.

  • 172897 - ServiceNow - Republishing an existing article to a new Knowledge Base does not move the article to this new KB on SN

  • 185009 - Security: Update version of RequireJS used from 2.3.6 to version 2.3.7 (most recent)

  • 186810 - Vulnerability with DOMPurify version before 3.2.4

  • 183780 - Vulnerability with DOMPurify version 3.0.8

  • 185550 - Page Layout Break is Ignored in TOC Entry Following Stitched PDF in TOC

  • 132050 - Having this SVG image in a topic renders the font weight differently than pages without SVG image for PDF outputs

  • 150668 - SVG images randomly not included in PDF outputs when multiple madbuilds run simultaneously

  • 185551 - Variable Used in Header Frame is Ignored For Topic Following Stitched PDF in TOC

  • 182999 - Add ability to control position the page number in relationship table proxy

  • 186305 - Update .NET SDK and Hosting Bundle Dependencies for Flare and Elasticsearch

  • 184793 - When the body tag uses rem in the line-height propery in the stylesheet in the attached project, the spacing is too large in XML editor

  • 171455 - Variable Definitions Dropdown is Replaced with Black Box

  • 185329 - Flare 2024 r2: File > Print > Print to PDF causes object reference error

  • 185583 - Variable Definitions Dropdown should display in alphabetical order

  • 141487 - Performance issue typing in XML Editor for long topics compared with previous version of Flare

  • 145585 - Thai Fonts not supported in XML Editor/PDF output

  • 131013 - Significant delay reaction when using deleting/backspace on this topic (print layout) with many Capture images

 

Attribution:

Last updated:

April 29, 2025

Author:

Marvin Mallari

Contributions by:

MadCap QA