Version 25.0.1 (March 27, 2025)

This is a maintenance release that includes various bug fixes and improvements, including a fix for a critical issue: Concurrent recipients insert operation (via XMPL), also known as “Refer a Friend”, failed.

Version 25.0 (November 5, 2024)

1. Added: Support for the latest release of Adobe CC-2025.
2. Added: Support for macOS Sequoia (version 15).
3. Added: Support for Apple Silicon M3 chip.
4. Added: InDesign’s Liquid Layout option is now supported in uProduce, uCreate and Connectivity, for all output formats. It is not supported in XLIM documents.
5. Added: You can now set print marks (crop marks, registration marks, color bars and page information) when processing a document.
   This is available in uProduce, uCreate and Connectivity, for PDF and PDF/VT formats only. It is supported for both XLIM and InDesign document production.
6. Added: A new hot folder type has been added to support a multi-table data source, such as Excel, Access, multi-file CSV zip, used for both recipient and additional tables.
7. Added: It is now possible to configure the hot folder to process just a few records of the input data file as a proof or test before processing the whole data file. 
8. Added: GetEnv(“HotFolderFileName”) QLingo function, which returns the name of the file that triggered the hot folder job.
9. Added: The “FindAndReplaceByRegExp” QLingo function finds patterns in text using regular expressions (RegExp) and replaces them with a specified value. 
10. Added: You can upload a multi-file data-source zip, and the uProduce server will now add all files in the zip as tables into a new data source. 
11. Added: When creating a new data source from a delimited text file in uProduce, you can now set the decimal separator (period, comma) and the encoding (i.e. Shift JIS, Western European, etc.).
12. Added: Support for new image formats: HEIC, HEIF, SVG, WEBP.  These formats are not supported for XLIM documents. 
    For information on enabling HEIC and HEIF formats, see Enabling HEIC AND HEIF Image Formats.
13. Added: New REST APIs.
    • The default Open API Specification (OAS) exposed by uProduce has changed to OAS version 3, including inheritance and polymorphism.
    • New APIs have been introduced, primarily for Circle uPlan Editor. These APIs are for plan and QLingo parsing and validation. They include functionalities such as plan validation, expression validation, expression parsing, expression validation, and more.
    • New parameter on the REST job ticket , which allows you to delete any hosted data source when production ends. 
14. Added: New user preferences:
    • Set the number of items displayed in a list subset.
    • Configure the job center or hot folder center auto-refresh interval.
    • Configure the monitor tool’s auto-refresh interval.
15. Added: A new system setting has been added – “ForceSecureConnection” –  to force a secure encrypted HTTPS connection when using the dashboard. 
    This setting also forces cookies to be marked as secure, and adds the Strict Transport Security header.
16.  Added: The job center now includes details of the customization values entered by uStore customers.
17. Changed: The uProduce version and build number shown previously in the page title have been moved to the page’s footer.
18.  Fixed: Various bug fixes and improvements, such as:
    • Changing properties on a text box marked with suppress empty spaces in preview mode weren’t preserved.
    •  XLIM performance.
    • uProduce’s Monitor tool status icon did not refresh.
    • uCreate generated zip when proofing a document.
    • Improved Independent Image Rendering (IIR).

Version 13.4 (November 5, 2024)

Version 13.2.1. (August 20, 2024)

This is a maintenance release that includes various bug fixes and improvements, such as:

• uCreate connectivity proof created compressed output.
• XLIM performance degradation in certain cases.
• In some cases, the record count wasn’t shown in the dashboard.
• Hot folder production failed when copies based on ADORs were used.
• Hot folder split production jobs partially failed.
• Hot folder ignored the imposition “center on pages” setting.
• Hot folder production failed when FTP destination was used.
• Email on demand crashed web services.
• In extreme cases, emails triggered from Circle stay in the “waiting” status.
• InDesign Server unnecessarily opened the web services port.

Version 13.2 (July 4, 2024)

1. Added: Support for language in accessible PDFs, which determines in which language the PDF is read by a screen reader. 
2. Added: You can now create a secure PDF. Using a permissions password, you can restrict users from printing, editing, and copying content in the PDF. 
3. Added: uProduce now supports Windows domain authentication, allowing user management via the domain active directory. This enables centralized user management, improved security, a simplified authentication process and consistency across systems.
4. Enhancement: When connecting to a data source in uCreate, the order of the records appearing in the data source is preserved, without the need to sort them by primary field.
5. Added: Two new GetEnv functions have been added:
   • TopMostJobId – Returns the job ID, or in case of a turbo job, the job ID of the parent job.
   • RecipientFilter – Returns the recipient filter used in production, which is either the table name, plan filter name or query.
6. Enhancement: QLingo Skip Operator is now supported for VDP production on uCreate on the desktop.
7. Enhancement: All installers and binaries are now signed. This includes installers for uProduce, uPlan, and uCreate (both Windows and Mac).
8. Enhancements: This version includes security enhancements, such as the upgrade of 3rd party libraries.
9. Deprecated: WS API SDK has been deprecated, and version 13.1 is the final release for the WS API SDK.
   • Support for the WS API (excluding the SDK) will continue.
   • The REST API is now the official API for uProduce.
10. Fixed: Various bug fixes and improvements, such as:
    • XLIM font kerning
    • Tab delimited files
    • Suppress empty tables
    • Barcodes & rectangle within a dynamic table
    • uCreate Generate VDP “All” selection

Version 13.1.1 (April 10, 2024)

1. This is a maintenance release that includes various bug fixes.
2. Fixed Mac installer.

Version 13.1 (March 31, 2024)

1. Added: uCreate usability enhancements
   • Content objects and variables can be organized into groups.
   • The order of content objects, variables, and input data fields can be rearranged.
   • Content objects, variables and input data fields can be sorted by name, type or group.
   • Values of input data samples are shown in the Dynamic Content panel.
   • Default copy fitting settings can be defined for the “Dynamic Story Copy Fit” dialog box.
   • Default print settings can be defined for the “Dynamic Print” dialog box.
   • Ability to multi-select elements in a document and apply to them at once dynamic properties.
   • Menus and context menus have been reorganized.
   • Keyboard shortcuts are better named and grouped.
   • uCreate menus can be customized.
2. Added: Capabilities in uCreate connectivity
   • Production can trigger an email notification when the printing job completes.
   • Ability to set the resolution of a PNG or JPG in proof and print.
     An “Auto” option, which calculates the best online display resolution based on the InDesign document size, has also been added.
   • Free text comments can be added when printing a job.
   • Ability to copy the print output file to a specific destination.
3. Added: Dashboard and API enhancements
   • There is no longer a need to choose the data source type as part of the upload process.
   • A new type of user – system administrator – has been added to the system, to manage high-level system tasks such as maintenance, system-level configuration and licensing.
   • Administrators are now dedicated to managing users and production resources.
   • Administrators can access the same options as the non-admin user.
   • Administrators possess the capability to impersonate an existing user, enabling them to take on the identity of that user within the system.
   • It is possible to have multiple administrators and system administrators in the system.
   • GDPR:
     • New GDPR Rest APIs.
     • New “GDPR” section in the dashboard.
     • GDPR tasks are recorded in the job center.
     • Ability to prevent jobs that contain on-demand links from being deleted, so that PDF links are available beyond the GDPR cleanup period.
   • Tracking data cleanup maintenance options have been added to the Rest API and dashboard.
   • All proxy configurations have been consolidated into one “Proxy Configuration” section.
   • A “System Settings” area has been added for the system administrator, where system-level configurations can be set.
   • All administrator configurations have been consolidated into a “Global Settings” area, where it is possible to configure:
     • Email notifications
     • Access to monitoring tools
     • Strong password policy
     • Login settings (the duration of the user’s login token)
   • In the dashboard, only single popup windows are opened now.
   • New user preferences options have been added:
     • Open simultaneously multiple pop-up windows
     • Determine the maximum number of characters to show
     • Determine whether the resubmit will use the range of the sub-job and not of the original job range
4. Enhancement: Security features
   • Upgrade of 3rd party libraries.
   • Password encryption of dashboard components (such as FTP).
   • HTML encoding for relevant data.
   • Stack trace isn’t shown in error messages.
   • Dashboard login always uses a token.
   • User is instructed to change the default installation password.
   • Additional security when creating or editing a user in the dashboard.
5. Deprecated:
   • uPlan VC project has been stopped and fully deleted.
   • Exact Target project has been fully deleted.
   • Specialty imaging has been deprecated.
6. Fixes: Various bug fixes and improvements, such as:
   • Show entity Id in dashboard entity details.
   • Better logs for thread naming and times.
   • Assets with content samples.
   • Rectangle function fixes.

Version 13.0 (December 3, 2023)

1. Added: Support for latest release of Adobe CC-2024.
   Notes:
   • The new InDesign Page Show/Hide feature is not supported, and will be ignored during production.
   • Adobe InDesign Server CC-2024 is not supported on Windows Server 2016.
2. Added: Support for macOS Sonoma (version 14).
3. Added: The new Hot Folder feature enables to configure a folder that is continuously monitored, and when files are copied or dropped into it, they are automatically processed. This feature allows to trigger document production by simply dropping a recipient list file into a hot folder, resulting in output for that recipient list.
   In addition, this feature is designed with a plug-in option that allows developers to create other useful hot folder tasks.
   The hot folder is a paid optional add-on which replaces the Hot Submit plugin created by XMPie Professional Services. If you have purchased this plug-in from the Professional Services team, contact support to get your free license for the new built-in version. The Hot Submit plugin created by XMPie Professional Services will reach its end of life in January 1st, 2025.
4. Added: New input data field samples.
   Designers can now create input data field samples, and then browse through the different values to see how they display in the document. The input data samples behave like a data source, and any rules in the content object/variables will be applied to the sample values. In addition, it is possible to generate output using the input samples.
5. Enhancement: Working with content object samples has been made simpler.
6. Added: It is now possible to have a full workflow without any data source (“None” data source), including in the dashboard and connectivity.
7. Added: The XLIM composition engine has been updated to support PNG image assets, including support for PNG transparency.
8. Added: It is now possible to have the production trigger an email notification when it finishes. You can configure the email notification in the dashboard:
   • Notification settings at the system level.
   • Notification settings at the account level (if not configured, the information will be taken from the system level).
   • Notification settings at the campaign level (if not configured, the information will be taken from the account level).
9. Added: It is now also possible to set the resolution of a PNG and JPG on the process page, as is the case of the proof page.
10. Added: An “Auto” option for PNG and JPG resolution has been added. It calculates the best online display resolution based on the InDesign document size.
11. Added: Free text comments can now be set when processing a job. These comments will be included in the job center’s details area, and in the triggered email when the job completes.
12.  Added: Some additional maintenance capabilities to help the admin user keep the server running smoothly have been added to the dashboard’s Maintenance area. These include:
    • Clean production cache artifacts
    • Clean plan parts (such as uImage) cache output
    • Delete plan parts (such as uImage) cache data that is older than a specified number of days
    • Clean plan downloaded URL content cache artifacts
    • Delete plan downloaded URL content cache data that is older than a specified number of days
13.  Added: Additions to the uProduce REST API:
    • OnDemand PDF
    • Licensing
    • System Settings
    • Ports (suspend/resume)
    • Plan Parts configuration
    • Faster job submit request
    • New endpoints for the hot folder feature
14. Enhancement: The REST API now fully covers all uProduce functionalities and capabilities, and is more featured than the old web services API. It is recommended to use the REST API going forward.
    
15. Added: In uCreate Print, it is now possible to select multiple text or graphic frames and apply the page numbering text, barcode or visibility features to all the selected frames at once.
16.  Fixes: Various bug fixes and improvements, such as:
    • Added script to expose the dashboard and API endpoints via a proxy server.
    • Dashboard user management section moved to admin settings.
    • Newer SQL LocalDB version and stabler installation of this component.
    • Upgraded image converter components.
    • Upgraded version of SQL Server OLE DB Driver.
    • Email jobs with zero recipients no longer fail the job.
    • APIs are no longer sensitive to the server’s locale configuration.

Version 12.4 (December 3, 2023)

1. Continuous support for Adobe CC-2023.
2. All other new features of version 13.0 are applicable to this version.

Version 12.2 (June 27, 2023)

Version 12.1.1. (June 1, 2023)

1. This is a maintenance release that includes various bug fixes.

Version 12.1 (March 30, 2023)

1. Added: New PDF/VT-3 variable data format is now available in uCreate Print and uProduce.  Video training
2. Added: Ability to start working on your document and make it fully dynamic before connecting to a data source.  Read more
3. Added: The uCreate Print user interface has significantly changed to improve usability Video training:
   • Clickable large button to start adding dynamic content to the document.
   • The creation of new content objects, variables and input data fields has been redesigned to simplify the process of creating these objects.
   • The task of editing a rule now has its own dedicated rule editor. 
   • It is now possible to highlight in the document only selected content objects.
   • Ability to select multiple pages and apply dynamic properties to them at the same time. 
   • You can now set the output resolution of a PNG and JPEG proof jobs in connectivity mode.
   • The panel can be resized to the full height of the screen.
   • The panel can be scrolled using the mouse wheel.
   • The dial indication automatically moves to the variable when a dial content object is turned to a variable.
   • Improved organization of the Preferences dialog.
   • Ability to turn a link content object into a variable.
   • Ability to select the save location for the document structure file.
   • Improved icon design.
   • New advanced capability to embed and extract a plan into or out of the InDesign document. 
4. Added: Ability to sort table records by the primary field configured in the plan.
5. Added: When producing a job using flat data, you can now use filtering to filter the data.  Video training
6. Added: Ability to generate flat data directly from the plan and data source.
7. Added: New compression and asset collection options for proof set and flat data creation.
8. Added: Ability to resubmit a job directly from the job center, preserving the job’s configuration.
9. Added: Ability to control the number of InDesign server instances used during turbo production.
10. Added: Additions to the uProduce REST API.  Video training
    • Document structure
    • Plan object dependencies
    • Delivery provider send
    • XES delivery provider verified senders
    • XES delivery provider status details
    • Data source CSV upload options
    • Append data source tables
    • Port operations
    • Tracking
      • Campaign changes
      • Jobs
      • Port operations
      • Add events
      • Export events
      •  Flattened queries
    • Clone entities
      • Data sources
      • Asset sources
      • Documents
      • Campaigns
11. Added: Support for SQL Server 2022.
12. Fixes: Various bug fixes and improvements, such as:
    • Better handling of uImage smart objects.
    • uCreate find and replace.
    • Dashboard security.
    • Improved port error descriptions.

 Version 12.0.1 (December 6, 2022)

1. This is a minor release that addresses uStore internal functionality.

 Version 12.0 (November 17, 2022 )

1. Added: Support for Adobe CC-2023 only.
2. Added: Direct mail enhancements of version 11.3 are now supported also for XLIM.
3. Added: Support for macOS Ventura (version 13).
4. Fixed: Various bug fixes and improvements.

Version 11.4 (November 17, 2022 )

1. This is the last version that supports Adobe CC-2022.
2. Added: Direct mail enhancements of version 11.3 are now supported also for XLIM.
3. Added: Support for macOS Ventura (version 13).
4. Fixed: Various bug fixes and improvements.

 Version 11.3 (September 29, 2022)

1. Added: Direct mail enhancements. For customers who do direct mail or transactional work, the uProduce server includes new features to help manage mail output which includes a different number of pages per recipient. These include creating a flat ADOR data file in addition to your chosen VDP output format, using the flat ADOR data as a data source, and using the new Preflight output format.
2. Added: The uCreate Print user interface has significantly changed to help improve usability.
3. Added: A new analysis method that analyzes the full structure of the document has been added. The result of this analysis is an XML file that accompanies the document in its full life cycle.
4. Added: The following new API methods have been added:
   – Ticket templates
   – Mail templates
   – Destinations
   – Delivery providers
   – Population management
   – Input fields customization
   – No data source production
   – UI control (visibility and theme)
5. Added: Support for AWS S3 as a destination target.
6. Enhancement: Log files are now aggregated daily to reduce their number.
7. Change: Microsoft Compact SQL has reached its end-of-life and is being replaced by SQL Server Express LocalDB.
8. Change: Missing recipient fields in the data source are now treated as null (empty values) instead of failing the job.
9. Change: From now on, only a single InDesign version will be supported per XMPie version. This version supports Adobe CC-2022 only.
10.  Fixed: Various bug fixes and improvements, such as:
    –  Latest Mac OS issues
    – uCreate connectivity preview invalid line feeds
    – XLIM preflight XNIP errors
    – IIR for barcodes issuesep