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Release Notes
Version 3.3
Released December 2024.

Features
  • Added server selection for integration with Phrase TMS
  • Added server selection for integration with SmartCat

Improvements
  • Updated installer
  • Verifika loads Excel glossaries with more than 50 columns.
  • Implemented correct mapping of segment match for XTM format.
  • Excel report tabs are now colored orange.
  • The header of the Excel report shows the number of errors per language and per category.
  • When checking 'Number formatting', Verifika takes into account the number in the source to reduce false positives.
  • Improved import of glossaries from Excel, added possibility of importing notes on terms.
  • For MQXLIFF, Verifika now takes tag IDs into account to check Inconsistent tags in source and target.
  • Improved Forbidden term error detection with enabled 'Match in target -> Whole words' setting, taking into account tags and non-breaking spaces.
  • Added option to select multiple languages for one User defined check.
  • Added 'Resource Name' column for all reports.
  • Verifika export search results to Excel by language.
  • Improved tokenization for spelling check, now words are split by tab character as well.
  • Added Language information to 'Search' and 'Replace' functions.
  • Improved 'Spaces around punctuation' and 'Spaces around special signs' checks - decreased false positives number.
  • 'Upper case after lower case' check now does not register an error in words from the ‘Special cases to check’ list.
  • Improved tag recognition in MXLIFF files.
  • Verifika correctly imports terms from SDLTB if multiple variants of the source term are specified.

Fixes
  • Fixed 'Unexpected characters' check for Chinese targeting.
  • Fixed 'Skip terminology from the list of untranslatables' setting when 'Case-sensitive' is enabled.
  • Fixed error detection when a term has a tag and punctuation mark inside or before it.
  • Fixed terminology error detection when 'Match in source -> Whole words' setting is disabled in terms with non-breaking spaces, as well as when tags are present.
  • Integration with Phrase TMS now works again
  • Fixed exact match segment protection for xlf files
  • Fixed Crowdin integration
  • Attribute “alt” mxliff files are now read correctly.
  • Fixed mqxliff reading error occurring in rare cases
  • Fixed “can`t process the report” error in punctuation check when adding any non-punctuation characters in the settings of this check.
  • There are also a couple of other minor fixes.
Version 3.2.7

Features
  • We’ve increased the number of error types for User-defined ignores from six to 29.
  • The new version supports two more nonprinting characters: carriage return and newline.
  • With the Memsource API changed, we are keeping pace by updating our integration.
  • We’ve added support for TXLF. All tests were passed with flying colors, and now it’s ready for the Wordfast users.

Checks
  • The target length limit check now works with the XLIFF property of max-width set for a segment.

Improvements
  • We’ve improved the algorithm for the Inconsistent spaces around tags in source and target check. Our tests show increased precision in check results and a significant reduction in false positives.
  • Spelling and grammar check is fixed for the Norwegian language. We also tackled a problem with the grammar check caused by Office 365 Business incompatibility.
  • We’ve corrected the display of context and perfect matches for SDLXLIFF files. Now they are the same as in Trados Studio: CM and PM. The Match column has also been included in the Verifika Excel report.
  • Changes also involved the Terminology settings: We’ve added automapping of glossaries columns for tab-delimited and XLXS files. For this to work, the first row of such glossaries should contain a language code in one of the following formats: En, en, en_gb, en-gb, en-GB, Eng, English.
  • And we have made a bunch of technical improvements aimed at the operational stability of our application.
Version 3.2.5

Features
  • Translation Quality Assessment

Improvements
  • Filtering out False Positives
  • New language model

Fixes
  • When loading SDLTB glossary some languages had “Unresolved” name. Now correct name is displayed.
  • Fixed URL recognition in tags.
Version 3.2.3

Improvements
  • Easy installation.
  • Both the glossary name and a location path to the glossary are displayed on Terminology report tab.
  • A user can upgrade/update the app swiftly. No prior uninstallation of Verifika is required. This means that all of a user’s settings are preserved in the upgraded version.

Fixes
  • Eliminated memory leakage that occurred when working with many files or large projects.
  • Now the “Exclude numbers with” option works properly with decimals and thousands.
  • Now “Allow zeros ahead of whole numbers” option works properly with decimals.
  • Digit to text check generates less FP for Bulgarian and Ukrainian
  • The auto-replace for Grammar check implements the suggestion selected by a user.
  • Cyrillic letters are correctly displayed for SmartCat file names.
  • There is no more ambiguity between Serbian (Latin) and Serbian (Cyrillic) for SDLXLIFF files.
  • Line break fixed for Hunspell spellcheck.
  • Error loading CDATA from SDLXLIFF fixed. CDATA usually wraps around HTML content. Should you translate webpages, you may find this fix helpful.
  • Some segments from Excel files were not displayed. The problem has been fixed.
  • Now “Exclude numbers with” option works properly with decimals and thousands.
  • Now “Allow zeros ahead of whole numbers” option works properly with decimals.
  • Digit to text check generates less FP for Bulgarian and Ukrainian.
  • There was a small conflict in Auto-fix functionality for the “Start and end spaces” check when the “As in source” option was on. The conflict has been solved!
  • Mechanics of auto-selection of the next segment has been improved, letting the users who prefer using the keyboard navigate through the error report swiftly.
  • Whole words for Match in source settings has been fixed for Chinese and Japanese.
  • A user can perform the check despite having invalid lists of untranslatables, letter case and forbidden words lists. The “Can’t process the report” error no longer appears.
  • Edits in Cyrillic are correctly saved to Transifex cloud.
  • A language pair is correctly identified for Memsource Cloud.
  • Tags were not displayed in Excel of Pending changes report.
Version 3.2

Features
  • Save Status of Pending Changes in the Project.
  • Save changes in a bilingual file when path name exceeds 260 characters.
  • Option to check an exact number of untranslatables in target and source.
  • Category of Untranslatables is added to the Error type list in User-defined ignore.

Checks
  • Check Terminology in tags.
  • Multilanguage Terminology check.
  • User-defined checks are language-specific.
  • Terminology check can effectively recognize terms adjoined to a number, apostrophes or special symbols.
  • Elimination of false positive results in Untranslatables, Measurement Units when there is a hyphen after the unit.
  • Filtering out False Positives.

Improvements
  • Fast performance.
  • The name of the file is displayed on each tab in the Report.
  • Hidden symbols are displayed only for the segment editor.
  • Memory consumption optimized for continuous work with Verifika.
  • Language-specific field in Common and Terminology tab displays additional languages.
  • Verifika 3.2 is backed by three license servers to speed up validation of the license key and increase reliability.
  • The Projects -> Open command now opens the path of the last saved version of the project file.
  • Files are automatically sorted by file name on the Files tab.
  • Word forms are edited directly from the Terminology tab in a report window.
  • Multiple “Can't process the report” messages, received immediately when checking was started, were a problem in v3.1. The problems have been solved.
Version 3.0

Features
  • SDL Studio (*.sdlproj) files support
  • Tag validation on the fly
  • Recognition of plain text tags (read-only)
  • Search including tags
  • Auto fix consistency issues in more scenarios
  • Look up for placeholder content (Search and User defined check)

Checks
  • Grammar check (by MS Word)

Improvements
  • Reduced FP count for many checks
  • Redesigned Consistency report
  • Display hidden characters and highlights when you edit
  • Extended Suggested auto-fix cases for Common and Consistency checks
  • Group similar issues within a single segment
  • Many user interface improvements (improved segment editor, more convenient report appearance)
  • Revised End punctuation and Inconsistent number of sentences checks for languages with specific punctuation (e.g. Chinese, Thai and so on)
  • More usable tag appearance (including MemoQ)
  • Improved MS Word support (headers, footers and text boxes are also checked)
Version 2.5

Features
  • Support SDL Trados Studio and memoQ external review files in Word format
  • Edit MS Word files directly in the Verifika
  • Support XLIFF 2.0
  • Add user-defined checks from Search tab
  • Protect entire file from changes
  • Check read-only files
  • Translation status column is added in error report (only for XLIFF files)
  • Comment consistency errors directly in the Verifika
  • Add and edit words in word form editor
  • Select and delete term groups from glossary

Checks
  • New "As in source" option is added for "Start and end spaces" check

Improvements
  • Faster spellchecking with HunSpell
  • Lower FP rate during spellchecking
  • Improved search algorithm for word forms detecting
  • Write out numbers to check their consistency in source and target
Version 2.0

Features
  • Custom check
  • New command line mode (LSP license)
  • Autosave project
  • Logoport RTF support
  • Memsource XLIFF editing

Checks
  • Invalid short date
  • Missing copyright character
  • Different number of trade mark characters in source and target
  • Different number of register mark characters in source and target
  • Target segment is longer or shorter than source segment by number of characters

Improvements
  • Improved TXML support
  • Redesigned interface
  • Many user interface improvements
  • Upgraded spell checker
  • Improved performance
  • Reduced FP rate for some checks
  • Improved terminology check for some languages
Version 1.8

Features
  • Teamwork capability with word form database (only for LSP licenses)
  • Ability to Import and Export Word forms list
  • Ability to Import multi-column glossaries with selection of source/target columns
  • Ability to open Word form editor now from report
  • Support glossary (for terminology check) in Trados XML and TBX formats
  • Ability to automatically download Hunspell dictionaries for spelling check

Checks
  • Target segment less or greater than source segment by X percent

Improvements
  • Tune for terminology check: Source and Target terms should be within the same tags
  • Tune for consistency check: Check also ignoring numbers
  • Tune for consistency check: Check also ignoring plural form (for English only)
  • Tune for consistency check: Check text only
  • Tune for Forbidden words check: Don’t report error if forbidden word appears in source also
Version 1.7

Features
  • Support for MemSource XLIFF file format
  • CSV glossaries support
  • Pending Changes exports to Excel
  • Automated work with Verifika via command line for ERP systems (LSP only)
  • Forbidden term forms are not suggested as word forms if the check for forbidden words is on
  • New format of spelling report
  • Option to ignore all errors in protected segments; before that, Verifika reported consistency errors anyway, now you can choose if you want them reported or not
  • Option to not generate spell-checking suggestions to shorten the overall check time
  • Option to protect ContextMatch in SDL XLIFF files

Checks
  • Check for forbidden words: if you do not want some particular words to appear in the translation, include them into the blacklist
  • Inconsistent URLs in source and target segments
  • Inconsistent mathematical signs

Improvements
  • A lot of smaller improvements that make Verifika work faster, safer and more conveniently
  • Reduced memory usage
  • Improved inconsistent numbers checkReduced FP rate in the number format check
  • Improved measurement units check
  • Spelling check and error report improvements
  • Minor improvements to the terminology check
  • Added ignored errors export to Excel reports
  • Added support for several apostrophes in the apostrophe check
  • Added locked segments designation (the “Locked” mark) to Excel reports
  • Added support for all error groups expansion in reports