Release Log: Draftable Legal

25.03.200

3rd April 2025

Bugfixes 

• Fix to errors in group policy not working 

25.03.100

1st April 2025

Features and improvements:

• Add settings UI for table cell highlight

Bugfixes 

• Added Excel redline settings migration fix
  
  

25.03.00

31 March 2025

Features and improvements:

Troubleshooting

• Improved Draftable troubleshooting, by grouping temporary files by comparison
• Removed the warning "One or more documents are in an older format" for easier clarity 

1-Click Compare

• Improvements to 1-Click error dialogue to be clearer and more helpful

Comparison and export improvements

• Updated the Changes Report table to fill the entire width of a page in MS Word
• UI change, now the right hand side menu in the comparison viewer  will be "sticky" between sessions (e.g. to collapse the change list by default)
• Added support for setting to ignore curly and straight apostrophes as well as quotation marks in comparisons

Administrator features

• Add ability for administrators to create custom tags for the change list in comparisons
• Support admin installed Add-ins information within the Draftable settings menu

Other

• Created Long Term Support (LTS) Deploy Pipeline / Release
• SharePoint - One Click command should use the new command

Bugfixes:

• Created a fix for large bulk compares sometimes hit runner process timeouts and stall
• Fix to comment indexing in change list generation
• Created fix where files couldn't be loaded with resource error from a shared drive
• Departures Table: Columns inconsistent in the email body, table formatting issues
• Unable to open Redline in excel issue has been fixed
• Fixes for handle numPicBullet definitions that use mc:AlternateContent blocks
• False positive paragraph change due to bookmark tag in table
• Added fix for file type icon at top of the viewer not displaying as PDF when PDF input files compared
• Added fixes for Draftable to handle pagination in SharePoint API
• Added fix for System Verification step for "Microsoft Windows: Context menu" fail when installed for system
• Fixes for text compare not working

25.2.000

28 February 2025

Features and Improvements

Core functionality

Departure Table: Now released to all users with:

• Improved output formatting,
• Ability to export Departures Table to email body with or without change list filtering
• Ability to extract inline comments in Departures Table

Excel Redline improvements

• Include worksheet name in ""Location"" column of Changes Report for Excel Comparisons
• Improve legibility for Excel Viewer when formula change border is shown
• Show redlined text from change in Changes Report from Excel Viewer

Accuracy and Quality improvements

• Improved algorithm for comparing Text Boxes
• Improved algorithm for PowerPoint Redline comaprisons

Markup Configuration

• New option to ignore changes to headers and footers in Changes Pages Only
• Improved visibility of changes for vision impaired users by adding the option to highlight changed text to mark up schema

Ease of use

• Added Comparison Summary Data to the top of the Comparison Viewer, added setting & GPO for showing / hiding by default
• Added the ability for 1-Click Compare to 'automatically select the two most recent versions' when using 1-Click Compare in Document Management Systems

Administrator features

• Updated for Http Listener service to prepare for release of new Outlook modern add-in for Redlining in in email

Bug fixes

• Fix to avoid truncating custom.xml when writing metadata.
• Fix for Changes Report being exported as html when docx selected
• Fix to avoid failure to generate Changes Report on moves within textboxes
• Fix for exported/saved zip contents missing file extensions
• Fix for unable to compare error due to footnoteColumns attribute in section properties
• Update to MSI installer to fix missing iManage integration package
• Fix for issue where Native office compare options were not working
• Fix for issue where comparisons are showing changes in Text Boxes even when 'Text boxes' are deselected in Redline settings
• Fix for PDF compatibility mode flattening numbering indentation, leading to all numbered content being incorrectly set at the same level
• Fix for unable to compare issue caused by issue saving files with macros in preprocessing
• fix for issue where deleted paragraphs inheriting wrong paragraph properties (e.g. headings)
• Fix for issue where all file icons were appearing as pdf in Bulk Compare
• Fic for Redline Change List generation crashing due to unhandled instrText.
• Fix for unable to compare error due to table compare issue
• Fix for PowerPoint Redline "Rearrange overlapping edits" behavior not working when Classic Red markup color selected
• Fix for unable to compare error for certain documents with comments
• Fix for false positives in umlat ü due to failing to normalize unicode sequences before comparison

25.01.100

31 January 2025

Features and Improvements

• Excel Redline viewer and Change List in Draftable released to all users by default (no longer in Preview)
• Added telemetry data logging for Excel file metadata and actions taken in the new Excel Viewer

Bug fixes

• Update to comment comparison logic to avoid comments incorrectly shown as insertion when present in both documents
• Fix to strip invalid XML characters when converting from TXT to DOCX
• Fix to prevent Excel Redline comparisons from failing due to attempt to preserve merged cells

25.01.0

28 January 2025

Features and Improvements

Core Functionality

Excel Redline viewer in Draftable (Preview)

• Allow users to compare Excel files as "Redline in Draftable", opening a dedicated Draftable Excel viewer
• Add a clickable, filterable Change List for Redlined Excel files in the Draftable Viewer
• Added Next Actions options for Excel Redline in Draftable (save to DMS, email, etc)
• Added Changes Report export for Excel files compared with "Redline in Draftable" Comparison Type 

Departures Table Improvements (available as a preview feature)

• Extended clause with parent sections, use shorthand in section column
• Updated wording in Departure Table template
• Improved clause extraction from tables
• Improved reference section extraction from tables
• Updated clause number detection algorithm to improve accuracy
• Included viewer notes and tags + differentiate comment colors
• Updated logic to ensure the exported file has the correct file name logic applied
• Improved redline of moved text in the Departures Table

Bulk Compare improvements

• Allow users to Email or Copy to Clipboard all comparisons at once after Bulk Compare
• Added support for including a Summary Page when saving comparisons from Bulk Compare mode
• Added support for multiple file types in the bulk save dialog after Bulk Compare 
• Added filetype icons into UI for Select from Recent files in Bulk Compare mode
• Increased the speed of bulk compare exports
• Added a progress bar that displays while exporting files after Bulk Compare
• Implemented smart selection of comparison types for Bulk Compare (greys out inapplicable 

Accuracy and output quality

• Updated algorithm logic to adjust the height of fixed-height rows in tables when revisions are present (to ensure revisions are visible in the redline output)
• Improve output rendering for deleted sections of tables (to avoid long skinny columns in Redline outputs)
• Aligned numbering IDs to minimize the number of layout bubbles indicating numbering changes in Tracked Changes outputs

Markup configuration

• Add option to compare footnote numbering
• Add option to ignore changes to quotation marks (from curly to straight)

Ease of use improvements

• Updated logic for file naming to remove the need to rename input files when emailing original and modified files with the same name
• Wrap file selector buttons (Browse, select from DMS, Free Text) in the New Comparison Window into two rows
• Improved file loading UI to disable the compare button until files are ready and add a file loading spinner to the New Comparison Window

Integration functions

• Updated file ordering logic to use version metadata when loading from iManage, Epona and SharePoint via the Draftable New Comparison Window

Administrator features

• Add ability to use 'remember my choice' for next actions in admin-set profiles
• Upgraded .NET60 to .NET80
• Silence all the CEF logging & Update CEF 125.0.210 ->131.3.50
• soft hyphens as zero weight characters
• MS Office Add ins: Switch LoadBehavior to Load at Startup (3) and
• MS Office Add ins: Bump up versions
  -> Outlook v1.18.0.0
  -> Word v1.26.0.0
  -> Excel v1.4.0.0

Bug fixes

• Fix for issue where filenames with "." were not following filename conventions
• Fixed issue impacting the "Compare Text with Draftable" in the right click context menu in Draftable's Word Add In 
• Fix for SharePoint graph client error
• Fix for highlighting colors on Departure Table
• Fix file loading logic from Document Management Systems
• Fix for error when using 1-Click Compare to export Redline Docx files
• Fix for issue causing crashes when generating clauses data for Departures Table

24.12.0

23 December 2024

Features and Improvements:

• Core functionality
  • Bulk Compare updates:
    • Updated to allow simultaneous comparison of multiple discrete pairs of documents
    • Redesigned file loading user interface and experience to remove need to select 'sub-mode' (i.e. 'use single older document' or 'use single newer document')
    • Added revision lines to exports from Bulk Comparisons 
  • Preview feature: Automatically generate a Departures Table output for contract negotiations (see December 2024 Release Notes for details)
  • Revision lines added to Redline in Word outputs
• Ease of use
  • Added ability to set default state of bulk compare in the Compare Selector window
  • Bulk Compare: added tooltip that displays full filename and version number / Doc ID details when hovering cursor over files in Bulk Compare mode
  • Updated the default user interface for Draftable's New Comparison Window to automatically hide the Comparison Type "Native in Office" 
• Accuracy
  • Updated Redline in Excel algorithm to improve column and row improvements
• Markup Configuration
  • Added "Vintage Green" color used for moved text in legacy comparison tools
• Integration functions
  • iManage: Increased number of file versions displayed in Draftable's 'version selection' menu from 25 to 100
  • NetDocuments: Document ID and Version Number metadata will now display in Draftable's New Comparison Window after loading, also used in Summary Page outputs
    

Bug fixes

• Fix for issue where file naming settings weren't applied to Redline in Word outputs when comparing files loaded via the Draftable Word Add-in
• Two separate fixes for unable to compare error occurring on unique set of documents
• Fix for issue where Tracked Changes outputs could not be saved after comparing files with long filenames
• Fix for error occurring while completing side-by-side comparisons
• Fix for regression that removed capability to open the 'select version' menu when loading files from Document Management Systems via the Draftable Word add-in
• Fix for issue where OCR was not working on image-based PDFs with some machine readable text
• Fix for error related to Word finding unreadable content message in Redline outputs
• Updated fix for document numbering issue

24.11.100

28 November 2024

Features and Improvements

• Core functionality
  • Redline in PowerPoint now available for all users
  • Reduced file size for PDF exports 
• Accuracy
  • Improved Docx algorithm for numbering formatting and comparing paragraphs
  • Improved Excel Redline algorithm for sheet matching using the header row and maintaining hidden sheets visibility
• Markup configuration
  • Added a new redline Profile setting that converts all dynamic fields (e.g. cross references) into plain text before comparison
• Ease of use
  • Allow users to continue working in Draftable while comparisons are is in progress
• Administrator features
  • Added a GPO for the setting "Clean up input files after comparison" (found in the 'general' tab in Settings)
  • Allow administrators to edit the subject of emails generated when exporting comparisons from Draftable
  • Improved telemetry to capture additional usage events (e.g. trigger comparison from DMS, swapping files, launching comparison viewer, etc)

Bugfixes

• Restored revision lines in the Comparison Viewer and Redline PDF export
• Fix for comparison formatting issues around numbering
• Fix for Comparison Error when using Draftable Engine for PDF conversions
• Fix garbled text when redlined documents signed with Kappris
• Fix for specific input document issue where redline would not save as PDF or open
• Fix for error in PowerPoint Redlines when Grayscale option was enabled

24.11.0

13 November 2024

Features & Improvements

• Improved table comparison algorithm to align tables correctly before comparing
• Added new classic green and leaf green colors to the markup schema text color palette (for brighter moves)

Bug Fixes

• Fix for MSI installation to remove 'dev' tag
• Fix issue in numbering styles for Redline Docx comparisons
• Fix for issue where Redline in Word comparisons were exported as Tracked Changes files
• Fix for incorrect handling of hyperlinked relationships from comments
• Fix for comparison outputs direct from the New Comparison Window failing to follow custom output filename
• Fix for issue with SharePoint integration where changes to site permissions result in no sites found when searching
• Fix for issue where Add-ins were not being installed properly for MSI installer
• Improved move detection algorithm to remove incorrect long text when showing moves
• Added ability to read previously unsupported legacy field codes causing the Change List to fail

24.10.400

6 November 2024

Bug fixes

• Fix for issue causing Office Add-ins to not be installed properly for MSI installations

24.10.300

31 October 2024

Features & Improvements

• Ease of use
  • Improved filename truncation logic to trim filenames dynamically based on save location (e.g. iManage, NetDocuments, OneDrive, local save)
  • Cleanup help articles linked in the action pane & ribbon
  • Allow users to set the default 'save to' location for 1-Click Compare workflows
• Administrator features
  • Added option to verify Add-in Certificate
• Integration functions
  • [SharePoint] Improvement for SharePoint Site Search function to display more than 25 results
  • [Epona] Support Drag & Drop from Outlook extension

Bug fixes

• Fix display of comparison delayed on single core machine due to change list generation
• Resolve issue where iManage files are blocking the app if selected from recent
• Fix for customized OCR per comparison option in New Comparison Window no longer working
• Fix handling DOCX style changes issue
• Fix for Changes Report not loading when Summary Page is also included in Redline outputs
• Fix for issue where display name and filename of attachment/s are not the same for Outlook
• Fix for error generating viewer PDF with compared footnotes/endnotes when this option is disabled
• Fix file password input not disappearing after correctly entering password while comparison in progress
• Fix for error where Draftable was unable to open password protected files during bulk comparisons

24.10.200

21 October 2024

Features & Improvements

• Updated custom output filename token logic to add 'v' in front of NetDocuments version numbers used in filenames without adding the 'v' to output filenames when comparing local files

Bug fixes

• [NetDocuments] Fix for refresh function causing 'unable to compare' errors

24.10.100

17 October 2024

Bug fixes

• Fix for signing issue with the MSI installers that was introduced in 24.10.0 

24.10.0

11 October 2024

Features & Improvements

• Core functionality
  • Added PowerPoint Redline (.pptx) as Comparison Type (available as a Preview feature, to access contact your account representative or email product@draftable.com)
• Ease of use
  • Added Summary Page data into the Draftable Comparison Viewer
  • Added 'Exit application' option in the file menu
• Epona Integration
  
  • Extend Version selector to have extra details about version files
  • Changed mode of the selecting file dialog to show versions
• Administrator features
  • Added setting and Group Policy option to disable windows bubble notifications on startup
  • Added Group Policy option to enable Bulk Comparisons
  • Improvement to ensure Windows always has up-to-date info about the installed version of Draftable
  • Promoted `Show save Track Changes output to iManage as new version button` to a full feature
    

Bugfixes

• Avoid crashing when attaching comparison files that are bigger than the allowed attachments size for Outlook
• Fix for Change List load error
• Fix for compare error on math element
• Fix for unable to compare error
• Fix for issue where file loading errors are not unsubscribed after changing the compare method
• Fix for redline author not being detected
• Fix for UX bug that caused renamed files to be deselected from email generation
• Fix for author field change being overwritten when comparing input text
• Fix for 1-Click definition not being loaded properly into the settings UI
• Fix for NamedPipeClient throws System.TimeoutException
• Fix for Changes Report docx generation error

24.9.1

27 September 2024

Features and improvements

• Core functionality
  • Redline in Excel now available for all users (no longer in preview mode)

Bug fixes

• Fix for Windows bug resulting in shell extension not being installed for Per User installer
• Fix for bug where ObservableList.Clear() was not wrapped by Dispatcher
  

24.9.0

27 September 2024

Features and improvements

• Core functionality
  • Allow users to load files, worksheets and selected cells via a Draftable Excel Add-In
  • Algorithm update to add Support for Japanese and other Ideographic Languages
• Ease of use
  • Rerun comparisons faster with detection of updates and automatic resync of files left in Draftable before rerunning comparisons
  • Complete your comparisons reviews in less time using bulk status tagging in the change list and mark off changes that have been reviewed using a new 'reviewed' tag
  • Share tagged and annotated changes more easily using an updated Next Actions menu with an option to include the Changes Report in the body of emails generated by Draftable
  • Complete workflows with less clicks using a new option in the General settings to default to the last saved location when saving locally

24.8.200

6 September 2024

New features & improvements

• Accuracy
  • Improved algorithm to improve readability of merged cells in tables in Redline outputs
• Markrup configuration
  • Users can now us classic word blue and red in the markup schema options
• Ease of use
  • Added setting to disable notification when comparing legacy document types
  • Added markup schema colours to Summary Page
  • Added names of compared files in the Changes Report
  • Added a new option for side by side Comparisons to save output to last save location
  • Users can now add their Changes Report to comparison exports
  • User can export the Changes Report as a docx file
  • Markup Schema colours now used in the Changes Report to help identify changes
  • Input files can now be printed via the Next Action menu
  • Removed Change List display for bulk comparisons Redline viewer (due to Change List not being supported via Bulk Compare)
• Administrator features
  • File Obfuscator tool in troubleshooting settings now obfuscates 2 files as a pair

Bug fixes

• Removed suffix (.docx) from appending twice on renamed files when copying to the clipboard
• Resolved rendering issue causing flickering screen when performing a drag and drop
• Fix for inserted header on first page of document not being detected (false negative) 
• Fix for unable to compare issue caused by compare error on handling complex field
• Fix for inserted signature not showing up on change list

24.8.100

22 August 2024

Bug fixes

• Fix for OCR settings not showing in the general tab

24.8.0

13 August 2024

New features & improvements

Core functionality

• Single page export for side by side in the next action menus
• Allow users to rename, convert and zip files when emailing or copying to clipboard 

Ease of use

• Selection of files, renaming and conversion preferences when emailing or copying to clipboard are 'sticky' between viewer sessions
• New Redline Profile setting option to make 3-pane view the default view for redline pdf comparisons
• Improved message information for the 'Draftable does not compare' filetype error

Improved Performance

• Updated table comparison algorithm to improve column matching
• Auto repair input DOCX documents
• Speed performance optimized for text vs text comparisons in Redline outputs

Administrator features

• Added Product Telemetry for Redline Profiles changes
• Added Product Telemetry for settings configured by GroupPolicy
• Added telemetry from Bulk compare interactions

Bugfixes

• Fix for document-specific error causing 'unable to compare' 
• Fix for issue where redline output filename was not properly created if the name contained '.'
• Fix for issue causing Office Add-ins to not be properly installed when using MSI
• Algorithm improvement for an issue where a deleted comment was not shown
• Fix for redline not showing color changes if text decoration was not used in the markup schema 
• Fix to ensure the help link for the 'Email' in next action menu sends to the correct knowledge base guide
• Fix for an 'Unable to compare' error caused via loading files containing special characters from iManage
• Fix for footers not being displayed correctly in Redline when changes in footers are disabled
• Fix to remove false positives in text boxes
• Fix to resolve issue where deletions and insertions were shown in the incorrect order

24.7.200

17 July 2024

Features & Improvements

Administrator features

• Enable administrators to set default and / or remove Comparison Types via registry or Group policy
• Promote Redline Change List and Three Pane view to full feature (removes preview toggle which was limiting access for some users) 
• Update to ensure Redline Change List, Three-Pane view and save Tracked Changes files as a new version to iManage is available by default for all users
• Modification to avoid automatically persisting historical default setting values in registry when defaults are updated

Improved Performance

• Update to Excel Redline Comparison Type to increase output row limit from 10K to 1M
• Significant speed improvements for larger Excel Redline comparisons  

Greater Accuracy

• Updated algorithm to ensure 'Layout Changes' in Redline settings include white space elements (e.g. tab spacing)
• Update to allow regression testing for 1-Click Compare API
  

Integration functions

• iManage: Allow users to be automatically logged in to iManage on app start (will resolve issues with drag & drop functionality failing when users are not logged into iManage on app start)
• Note: iManage package not updated in this release

Bug fixes

• Fix for issue where the Redline Change List UI was not loading properly
• Update to Telemetry to fix tracking of PDF conversion engine setting changes
  
• Fix to resolve exclusion of 'Layout Changes' in Redline creating false positives
• Fix for UI bug where NetDocuments commands in ribbon menu were overlapping

24.7.100

4 July 2024

Bug fixes

• Fix for broken toggle in Preview menu for Redline in Excel

24.7.0

3 July 2024

Features & Improvements

New core functionality

• Added Excel Redline (.xlsx) as Comparison Type (preview only)
• Added option to use the Draftable Engine for PDF -> DOCX conversions
• Added option to remove the cover page from Side by Side comparison exports

Ease of use

• Show Next Actions (e.g. save, print, email, etc) in the ribbon (top) menu of the Draftable comparison viewer
• Bulk Compare: use input file location when bulk action saving
• Added link in the New Comparison Window next to the Comparison Type to Knowledge Base article defining these options
• Updated the Redline settings UI to retitle 'Filename Output' as 'Output filename'

Performance improvements

• Improved algorithm to identify when incompatible legacy doc or docx formats are present in documents and advise the user to convert the document to a modern docx

Integration functions

• iManage:
  • Allow users to save outputs to iManage as a 'Related' file
  • Updated listener service to make desktop IPC communication unique for user (instead of system). This allows launch from iManage to work on multi-user systems
• Epona:
  • Extended the Epona file descriptor to include the comments associated with versions

Administrator features

• Updated software version numbers to align with year & month of release
• Improved the file name convention for exported error logs to include date and unique ID
• Dropped support for x32 bit to reduce application size
• Updated CEF# and Microsoft Universal C Runtime to reduce application size
• Updated product telemetry to share document metadata (Number of words, Number of pages, Number of characters), Word Document Scheme version, installation & troubleshooting events in Draftable
  

Bug fixes

• Restored dialog warning users that Changed Pages output does not support style changes
• Fix for Silent Start with Windows being set incorrectly in the Group Policy Template
• Fix for algorithm error when comparing comments with corrupted metadata documents with comments
• Fix for whitespace changes being ignored when using the 'changed pages only' option in the Draftable Redline Viewer
• Fix to ensure 1-Click compares respect user's Output filename configuration when opening
• Update to Side-By-Side exports to include moves (now aligns with what is shown in Draftable) 
• Fix for an incorrect error message that was shown when failing to complete a drag-and-drop load from due to the integration being disabled

2.16.100

20 June 2024

New Features & improvements

Core functionality

• Improved memory consumption efficiency on multi user systems (e.g. Citrix) by adding NGEN support

Integrations

• iManage
  • Create a Windows Service with the iManage Http Listener
• SharePoint
  • Additional data logging for troubleshooting
  • Search retry improvements to increase performance when searching large number of sites in SharePoint
• Epona
  • Update the file navigation to remember the last used location when file is loaded from recent list, or from Epona's Outlook extension

Bug fixes

• Fix for 'Start automatically with windows' setting 
• Fix for issue causing unable to compare result for Redline in Word output (document specific issue)
• Fix for incorrect numbering changes being shown in comparison output
• Fix for watermark changes not showing
• Fix for Word Add-In right click menu 'Compare text in Draftable' failing to accept changes for selected text
• Fix for iManage version selection for files with special characters

2.16

6 June 2024

2.15.300

29 May 2024

2.15.200

14 May 2024

2.15.100

2 May 2024

2.15.000

26 April 2024

5 April 2024

27 March 2024

24 March 2024

22 March 2024

19 March 2024

March 13 2024

7 March 2024

24 February 2024

22 February 2024

16 February 2024

13 February 2024 

9 February 2024

6 February 2024

23 January 2024

New core functionality

• Compare output to show 'hidden' text as a change

Ease of use improvements

• Drag and drop text directly in the box without having to click “input text” button first
• Allow users to collapse 'next actions' right hand menu in viewer
• Default 'save to' location in windows file browser is the same as comparison input file location

Integration improvements

• SharePoint: Drag & drop from Sharepoint Online
• MS Word: Load text to compare within MS Word via command or right click
• iManage: Add Option to automatically open file after saving to iManage

Other improvements

• Update Control Panel icon for Word & Outlook Add-ins
• Silent launch: Don't show Draftable New Compare window on startup
• Update app size estimate shown in Windows settings to be more accurate (2GB)
• Show Word and Outlook Add-in versions installed in the 'add in' section of Draftable settings menu

Bug fixes

• Fix for error when exporting Side By Side for certain documents
• Allow vertical scroll for System Verification results UI to avoid cutoff
• Fix for export to Tracked Changes from Side By Side comparisons
• Fix for Error in comparisons due to algorithm handling of Numbering 
• Change suffix used in the Group Policy templates from Pro to Legal
• Fix issue in converting .doc files to PDF leading to failed comparisons

• Patch fixing PowerPoint issues impacting side by side comparisons of PowerPoint files

• Patch fix for issue while starting PowerPoint application

• Enabled NetDocuments integration for non-US regions (all except "US-Gov" region)

• Improved iManage integration workflows:
  • Add a "Compare with most recent" option to the context menu when launching from iManage (this loads the two most recent versions when a file is selected, or loads the version selected and other most recent version if a version is selected)
  • Add 'Compare versions" option to the context menu when launching from iManage (this opens the Draftable version selector menu for the relevant file)
  • Add a 'save to iManage' option when generating a Redline as 'Word with tracked changes'
• Ability to load files (including versions of files) and launch a comparison from Sharepoint Online (web browser)
• Launch the New Comparison window after Draftable is activated 
• Support for Sharepoint remote located files when loading files from the Draftable Word add-in 
• Allow multiple files to be selected when browsing for local input files in Windows

• Fix for PDF files timing out when loading from network drives
• Fix for error dialog appearing unnecessarily when trying to cancel "Save to iManage"
• Fix for error when loading iManage files from "Favorites" tab using context menu integration
• Updated image hash not to use MD5
• Fix for a regression introduced by Draftable.Office refactor that broke MSI detection

App improvements & new features

• Automatically launch the New Comparison window after product is activated 
• Support .rtf files in redline comparisons

Bug fixes

• Fix issue failing to load Password protected Office documents
• Fix defect where it was not possible to select files from the iManage "Favorite" tab

App improvements & new features

• Keep input files after compare to enable rerunning comparisons with 1-click
  • Create user setting provide option to clear input files after running comparison 
• Added Group Policy support to disable Redline comparison types
• Improvements handing Structured Document Tags to reduce false positives

Bug fixes

• Fix for header/footer false negatives
• Fix to reduce word-related issues by avoiding breaking Word conversion on error overriding Word settings

App improvements and new features

• Select input file from a list of recent documents in the launcher

• Improved iManage integration
  • Allow multiple input files to be loaded when selecting from iManage
  • Provide list of other versions after first input document from iManage
  • Show iManage document number and version details in new comparison window and comparison summary page
  • Default compare output name to reflect versions when comparing iManage files

• New functionality for updating Word-Add-in

• Default insertion color change from "Blue" to "Dark Blue"

• Upgrade viewer to v3.6.18, including the following changes to Side by Side comparisons:
  • • Add status tags (e.g. “Needs Review” or “Low Priority”) and custom entry notes to changes in list
    • Configure rich rules for which changes are shown, including using statuses and notes, (this replaces the previous “Visible Categories” feature)
    • Ability to export a list of changes from the document (as .csv or copy to clipboard) to share review work with others. Change report includes tags and notes. Users can control if the report includes all changes, or only the changes matching the current filters

• Option to improve troubleshooting with extra error logs recording from iManage 

Bug fixes

• Fix for Word add-in not working for paths containing "&"

• Fix for author name in new compare window changes when changing comparison type

• Improvement in how Draftable handles error when closing Word document

• Fix for compare result window getting stuck at spinner when loading output PDF

• Word Add-in now displays warning when trying to compare an unsaved file

• Fix for exception during export causing app to freeze

• Fix for error when running side by side for docx: Pdf copy of the original document should be created at this stage.

• Remove false error message on timeout when loading files

• Update to extend output file name limit from 30 to 70 characters

Bug fixes

• Add iManage credential input for On-Prem instances

App improvements and new features

• Sanitize filename function to be used for iManage files (clean up problematic characters)

Bug fixes

• Fix redline compare for text input

App improvements and new features

• Allow users to Drag and Drop from iManage

Bug fixes

• Fix for Error loading files from iManage

App improvements and new features

• Compare Excel files (csv, xls, xlsx) Natively with Spreadsheet Compare) from Draftable

• Improved validation of Comparison Type on Compare Selector window

• Add group policy support for option to disable iManage integration, remove from input selection
• Set default to hide style changes by default in Side-by-Side

Bug fixes

• Fix patch version for MSI installers
• Fix for Draftable opening word files when running compare
  

   

Bug fixes

• Improved error handling for PowerPoint, retrying RPC server issues
• Fix leaking Word instances

App improvements and new features

• Give users the ability to set default content & style changes (shown / not shown) for SBS

• New internal setting to remove iManage from file input selector

• Group Policy fix

Bug fixes

• Fix for error disabling the PDF warning in Office in some scenarios

App improvements and new features

• Load files from within iManage via right click, the context menu

• Compare PowerPoint (native)

• Show progress bar while compare is loading

• Support open link features from the Viewer

• More dialogs shown when we face error will have option to export & send logs

• Include User Desktop settings while exporting error logs

• Viewer now can log custom errors

• Add Option to Repair Word Add-In

Bug fixes

• Fix for error when Office is not installed

App improvements and new features

• Better default types for save to iManage DD-1013

• Double underline & strikethrough option for mark up styling DD-1045

Bug fixes

• Word integration cleanups

• Block possibility to click redline side panel buttons multiple times 

• Extend the app log to include info about sentry & telemetry configuration 

• Update error logs to record current timezone at time of start (from windows) 

• Fix Draftable.CompareTool.Updater.WindowsUtils.OpenOrCreateKey NullReferenceException 

• Refactoring of comparison tasks execution, moving PDF generation step to progress window 

• Improving handling defaults in redline settings 

• Fix for Word Single Instance policy breaking OCR

App improvements and new features

• Improving handling defaults in redline settings

Bug fixes

• System.NullReferenceException when doing redline compare

App improvements and new features

• Smarter default FILE NAMES for save to iManage

• Sanitize file names from iManage for invalid characters

• Author (full name / initials) as per Word settings to be an option in the Settings

• Outlook window via "Email Comparison" shown in front of other applications

• Improve file names sanitization

• Add document obfuscator and Group Policy setting to disable it

Bug fixes

• Fix for Error while doing export of the redline

• Fix for Tracked Changes outputs

• Fix long temporary file paths to stop long names crashing comparisons
• Fix for issue with Track Changes output interacting with third party PDF software during saving (software was trying to save outputs as pdf)

• Fix for Save to iManage as a 'New version' - remove error pop up on cancellation

App improvements and new features

• Add OCR test to system verification step

• Use viewer 3.6.14

• Increase file load and comparison timeout to 15 min
• Change Default RedlineProfile to have Headers & Footers on by default

Bug fixes

• Compatibility option to resolve security pop up issue - setup signle instance of Word Application (also added Group Policy support for this setting)

• Refresh runner pool after changing the setting
• Fix to issue impacting redline comparisons documents

• Fix for OCR issue

App improvements and new features

• Use viewer 3.6.13

• Default to always log telemetry data locally (for troubleshooting)

• Can select Changed pages output when exporting to email when document is not ready

Bug fixes

• Fixes Comparison Progress window (not including OCR step in some cases)

• Office integration cleanups and fixes

• Fix to enable compatibility with KOFAX 

• Exclude Draftable.Xml from obfuscation - fixing some comparison errors

• Update to better handle encoding in logs

• Small clenaups and bugfixes in algorithm code

• Fix for Error while trying to do side-by-side compare

• Fix viewer errors for redline

• Switch to the Blue Theme

  • All installers and Add-In included

• Ability to manage profiles at team level

App improvements and new features

• Increase memory limit on CompareRunner

Bug fixes

• Fix issue with Comments in Redline

• Add support for more than only Preferred Library database in iManage

• Fix word template issue & skip word add-in and templates on start

Bug fixes

• Fix Fatal crash when switching from old version

• Handling TargetInvoationException from Word API

• Fix for issue triggering Word Macros warning

App improvements and new features

• Add help articles to issues found in diagnostic tool

Bug fixes

• Avoid opening key for DisableConvertPdfWarning if already setup as expected
• Create Word Options key if it's missing
• Fix for issue with OCR 
• Fix for unresponsive Settings window when first opened
• Fix for CompareSelector lagging after closing compare window
• Several algorithm improvements and cleanups

App improvements and new features

• Update viewer to v3.6.12

Bug Fixes

• Can't read statistics step in onboarding
• Attempt to fix Normal.dotm Word popup issue
  

App improvements and new features

• Compare comments: Display changes and preserve authors

• Improved moves for Redline:

  • Grouping consecutive moves together (Including fixes for some cases of last row not being included in the move)

  • Detecting moves within same paragraph

  • Account for moves that split from one to many paragraphs and vice versa

• System Verification: upfront testing to ensure correct user settings
• Added links to Draftable Pro Knowledge base throughout application
• Group policy for setting up iManage on prem (Service URL, Draftable App ID)

Bug fixes

 Bug fixes

• Updated OCR settings to ensure this is enabled when user selects to enable as 'automatic' or 'always' 

• Fixed issue when unable to create Draftable.dotm

 App improvements and new features

• Improved show steps in comparison progress dialog

• Updated viewer to the latest v3.6.11

 Bug fixes

• Fix for Unknown error when running side by side compare with 1 pdf and 1 word doc

• Fix for issue when Draftable unable to override Word settings

• Potential fix to avoid Word Popup relating to Normal.dotm file

 App improvements and new features

• Show steps in comparison progress dialog

• Telemetry improvements 

 Bug fixes

• Fix for issue occurring when loading documents into new comparison window 

• Potential fix for running comparisons when system language is not set to English

 App improvements and new features

• Group Policy for Redline Profiles

 Bug fixes

• Removed error when free text input was used 

 App improvements and new features

• Add missing Group Policy Template for Draftable Pro

• Better handle iManage On-Premise

• Manage Word options to avoid default pop ups

 App improvements and new features

• Release 'Changed pages only' feature to allow dynamic toggle of in viewer and export as PDF

• Improvements to iManage integration

 App improvements and new features

• Added Profiles for Redline settings

• Released MS Word Add-In (automatically installed after starting the app)

• New Group Policy template for Draftable Pro

  • With options to set iManage on-premise credentials

• Extension for existing Draftable Group Policy to set auto-updates on/off for per User & per-User MSI

• Native menu is now enabled for Redline output, with options to

  • Start new comparison

  • Open settings

  • Close window

• Save File to iManage as new version

 Bug fixes

• Various Redline algorithm bug fixes

• Bugfix for Comments

 Bug Fixes

• Fix for Headers and Footers not being visible in side-by-side view for standard license

 Bug fixes

• Updated default Move From and Move To text decoration

 App improvements and new features

• Compare progress dialog with spinner 

  • Gracefully dispose of cancel in-progress comparison

• Extend markup customization & add option for users to ignore moved text (show as insert / delete instead)

• Set default markup colours to align with word

• Allow users to save their preference to open or save when Word tracked changes output is selected

• Updated to Viewer 3.6.9

• Speed improvements

  • Generate preview pages of redline PDF while waiting for comparison to complete

  • Maintain pool of compare runner processes

  • Remove unnecessary preprocessing steps to speed up comparisons

 Bug fixes

• Various bugs removed from Redline algorithm

 Bugfixes

• Fix for issue preventing saving documents to iManage from the viewer right hand side panel

 Bug fixes

• Bug fix for issue preventing select file from iManage

 Bug fixes

• Compare Selector visible before accepting Terms & Conditions on fresh installation

 App improvements and new features

• Fix a bug where some fonts (mostly Asian) were not loaded

• Support iManage on-premise

• Fix bug where file name was expanding the control instead of wrapping text

• Keep the launcher open after a comparison is created

• Introduce spinners in buttons for actions that might take time

• Show license key in settings window

• Change "Redline" label to "Redline (.pdf)" in comparison launcher

• Add an option for users to switch between word-level or character-level

• Telemetry improvements

  • We're able to group actions that happened in context of a specific comparison

  • Create id after file drop and not changing it until the comparison is triggered

• Prepopulate email body when emailing outputs

• Ship language specific fonts with desktop

 Components

• Use viewer v3.6.8 with better handling of long list of changes handle language specific fonts

 Bug fixes

• Various bugs removed from Redline algorithm

 App improvements and new features

• Respect summary page setting when doing comparison with output set to Word Track Changes

• Redline comparison execution time improvements

• Introduce session concept to improve telemetry

• If a word or pdf document doesn’t have an author we’ll use the file owner

 Redline compare algorithm improvements

• Improved support for headers and footers

• Maintain and merge comment threads

• Partial support for embedded objects

• VML textbox support

• Fixed several edge cases that cause false positives

 App improvements and new features

• Support txt and txt blob

• Customize Track Changes Author

• New viewer v3.6.7-pre.3

• UI fixes

 Bug fixes

• Assertion Error in HandleInsert/HandleDelete

• Bug fixes in Redline compare algorithm
  • Bookmarks
  • Comments
  • Header & footers
  • Numbering

 App improvements and new features

• UI improvements

• User statistics from Redline/Pro

 App improvements and new features

• Option in Redline settings to keep comments in the Track Changes from one/both of the documents, or skip
• Compare Launcher will now be closed if the app is deactivated
• Settings window closed if the app is deactivated
• No dialog when Redline Markup Scheme not saved
• There should be no dialog when TC Compare is in progress and app was deactivated

 Bug fixes

• Sentry log in the File Explorer Integration/Start the app from Shortcut

• Global Shortcut no longer freezes the app

 App improvements and new features

• Streamlined redline compare

• Word Track Changes support

• iManage support

• OCR support

• Compare Selector Ui improvements

• Settings Ui improvements

• New update engine

• New installer engine

• URL Scheme improvemnts

• Internal .draftable support

• Introduce Draftable Pro mode

• Export share with Outlook

• Viewer 3.6.7

 Dependencies update

• Viewer rendering engine - CEF Sharp

• Migrate from deprecated Microsoft.Toolkit to CommunityToolkit

• Other dependencies updated

 Bugfixes

• Update process bugfixes