Release Note: XTRF v. 9.6

TL;DR

Profit from the new features and improved performance of the XTRF products:

• Group your projects and quotes to monitor the finances on the next level
• Check the deeper integration with XTM for Smart projects
• Stay up to date with memoQ 9.12 support
• Enjoy the overall better performance.
  

This release also contains important security fixes. We highly recommend that you upgrade to this version.

New features

Project groups

From now on, you can group your projects to manage them as one entity and keep abreast of all critical changes in one place. We recommend using project groups to process complex multi-project orders and supervise long-term projects with a predefined budget.

On the group page, you can:

• set and monitor the overall budget
• keep an eye on profit, margin, and ROI
• link and unlink projects and quotes.

To find out how to get the most from this feature, see the Project Groups article.

XTM integration for smart projects - stage 2

We keep developing our integration with XTM, so you can get more from synchronizing your XTM projects with Smart Projects:

• XTM metrics are now fetched for both single and multilingual projects.
• You can manually select the file language if the synchronization fails to match it automatically.
• The integration sends e-mails informing about successful or failed synchronization to the client’s project manager and portal administrator.
• Global settings regarding the visibility of the Finish and Reject buttons in XTM Workbench are now respected when vendors open XTM links in the Vendor Portal

To learn more about the integration, see the XTM integration for smart projects article.

Improvements

Support of the latest memoQ version 9.12

We keep pace with the progress in the CAT Tools industry so that you can get the most out of the memoQ integration.

Better performance of Client Data Access Limiting

Now, the system manages multiple updates to the project, task, or client entities quicker, thanks to improved system refresh processes.

Hidden Database Cleanup feature

For security reasons, the Database Cleanup option is not available by default anymore and has to be enabled separately. To get access to the Database Cleanup, please contact our Help Desk or your Customer Success Manager.

Warning&Announcements

Disabling Apache Velocity macros

Existing Apache Velocity macros will stop working from XTRF v. 10.0 onwards, which is planned for Q1 2023. You are strongly advised to rewrite them in Groovy.

To learn how to switch from Velocity to Groovy, see THIS ARTICLE.

Introducing length limit to text boxes

The text box content will be limited to 20 000 characters from XTRF v. 10.0 onwards. This limit will help increase system performance and prevent extensive memory consumption and potential stability issues.

About 0.3 percent of all content in XTRF exceeds the limit and will be truncated. To avoid losing valuable information, make sure to keep your notes, comments, descriptions, and instructions within a reasonable length and avoid embedding images, as they’re the most common cause of oversize.

The text box length limit will affect every text field in the system.

Removing currency rates synchronization with European Central Bank and Polish National Bank

From XTRF v. 10.0 onwards, the exchange rates will only be synchronized with Open Exchange Rates.

ECB and PNB exchange rate sources will be automatically changed to the Open Exchange Rates in the corresponding periodic job.

If you wish to continue using those sources, please contact our Helpdesk.

Relevant bug fixes

This release contains security fixes. Please update as soon as possible.