Alchemy CATALYST 2025 Release Notes

Build 160094

New Features:

• 3rd party library upgrades
• Update to use Microsoft .NET 8.0 Desktop Runtime 8.0.17 installed as a pre-requisite.
• Update to use Analysis Package GLAP_2025_01-PD10.2.0 libraries, used to convert Documentation file formats.

Enhancements:

• Loading a Keywords file with an invalid character now presents the line and column location of the offending issue.
• Microsoft Machine Translation Engine extended to allow input of a Region if required.

Bug Fixes:

• In .NET Forms when using the .NET extraction setting, Extract only modified resources to .NET WinForm/ResX files some strings with an ID suffix containing .NoText were not extracted - resolved.
• New build available notification - download page now linked to the Catalyst 2025 web location.

Build 160089

New Features:

• For dialogs in Win32 or RC files new properties can be set on controls for Multiline, Right to Left or Word Wrap within the Properties window.
• 3rd party library upgrades
• Update to use Microsoft .NET 8.0 Desktop Runtime 8.0.14 installed as a pre-requisite.
• Two 3rd party dlls, System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.dll and System.Collections.NonGeneric.dll added to the installer for support of .NET 9.0 assemblies.

Enhancements:

• Server-Side script tag <tpl> added to the known tag list and correctly maintained and presented as a tag when working with JSON files containing this tag.
• Properties window enhancements
• Context information moved to the bottom of the window and always visible.
• The Properties list now gets all the available space between the Translator Note and the Context edit boxes.
• When there are more properties entries than the available space, a scrollbar is shown just for the properties list.
• If the Properties window is made shorter than its content, a vertical scrollbar is enabled for the whole pane.
• ezScript
• Users can Freeze or Unfreeze specific resource types within a TTK file, excluding them from translation.
• Revert command can now revert at individual file or folder level within a TTK.

     Refer to the ezScript help for these commands for more information on use and syntax.

Bug Fixes:

• Validate Expert - When performing a Glossary Consistency Check with the option Use advanced glossary validation enabled some false results were being returned due to the longest match not being processed first - resolved.
• Issues with the Chinese language in the SysTran Machine Translation connector due to language codes mismatch - resolved.
• .NET Forms - Within the Properties window sometimes information was not populated when clicking around Forms in Visual View - resolved.
• Catalyst now reports to the Results pane if a .NET 9.0 assembly is being extracted but .NET 9 is not installed on the user's machine.
• When using a Virtual Keyboard, some extended characters could not be inputted correctly with Toggle Space Marker enabled - resolved.
• Some Hindi text did not display correctly in the Interactive Find and Replace dialog - resolved.
• Leverage Expert - Update to the option "Leverage coordinates even if properties differ": Coordinates leverage while Font Name or Style differ only if the new TTK and TM TTK's coordinates match.
• Right clicking an APK files in the Navigator window, the option Copy File Name & Path did not reflect the same path as in the TTK - resolved.
• Issue with a segmented JSON file; a particular segment change was taking place once inserted into Catalyst due to a hashed ID issue - resolved.
• Deleting a text file parsing rule did not update the view of the subsequent selected rule - resolved.
• Selecting the empty .smali text parsing rule resulted in an error message - resolved.
• Within an ezScript Validation Expert test for Spell Check, the Excel report had additional appended text referring to glossaries - resolved.

Crash Report Investigations:

• Visual View of a Ribbon resource resulted in a crash due to invalid XML in the aligned file - resolved.
• Crash on Revert to Original from Power Translate ribbon tab when filter set to Group by Status - resolved.
• Memory Leak detected when cycling through the Icon Resources which resulted in a Catalyst termination - resolved.
• ezParse Preview for a text file with lots of white space resulted in a crash - resolved.

Build 160057

New Features:

• Support added for .NET 8.0 and 9.0 version file formats.
• Resx Viewer now available on .Net forms - it allows users to view forms as parsed into Catalyst and comparison of Source and Target values.
• Segmentation has been extended to Text file formats.
• New Machine Translator Connectors added for Systran MT and Amazon Translate.
• New image format WEBP, (Web Image Format) now supported.
• New Leverage Expert option, Leverage Coordinates even if properties differ will allow co-ordinate values from dialogs in a Translation Memory to be leveraged, even if the properties of that dialog or controls have changed between new and TM versions - e.g. the dialog has been widened or control coordinates differ.
• The Validate Expert now includes a test to report differences in line ending formats between source and target segments.
• There is a new feature EOL Format on the Home tab of the Ribbon allowing the user to fix or change EOL formats.
• 3rd party library upgrades
• Update to use Microsoft .NET 8.0 Desktop Runtime 8.0.11 installed as a pre-requisite.
• Update to use Analysis Package GLAP_2024_04-PD9.12.0 which are the libraries used to convert the Documentation file formats.
• Java Runtime Environments updated to JDK23 for 64-bit Catalyst version and JDK19 for 32-bit version.
• Android APKTool updated to the latest version 2.10.0.

Enhancements:

• Linefeeds with LF format in XML files are preserved and not converted to CRLF on extraction.
• The original order of XML attributes is now maintained and alphabetical sorting no longer takes place.
• When .NET forms containing duplicate IDs are detected on opening a TTK, Catalyst now reports this anomaly and an option on the Navigator right click menu allows resolving the issue.
• .properties files which contain html markup can now be segmented on markup tags e.g. <br> or <p>.
• New string list filter for Segmented Text which displays all segmented strings in the string list when selected.
• Document Formats within .NET files now supported and parsed into Catalyst.
• XML Interactive Alignment - IDs and markup columns displayed to help with better alignment matching.
• TBX glossary - if a translated term is 'forbidden' or blacklisted, this can be validated against and a status shown in the Glossary pane.
• Preview text rules on insertion is now available in the same way as for XML files.
• Algorithm when applying keywords in segments which contain HTML tags enhanced to better mark up some results.
• When multiple items are selected in the Navigator Tree, a count of the number is shown to the user in the Status bar.

Bug Fixes:

• Glossary - Catalyst times out because of keyword but only for one string in heavily tagged segment - resolved.
• ezScript Leverage - /D switch now loads the default leverage settings before the leverage task starts.
• Character references now maintained on extraction when in embedded HTML files within Excel, Text or JSON file formats.
• Strings that are passed to Acrolinx for verification sometimes had lower case letters converted to upper case - resolved.