Enhancements

• Create cloud projects from pre-translated .SDLXLIFFs
  Following the recently added support for .SDLXLIFF files in Language Cloud, Trados Studio now also enables you to use .SDLXLIFFs as source files for your cloud projects.
  This enhancement also makes it possible for you to use pre-translated SDLXLIFF files from existing local projects or project packages in cloud projects. You may want to do this if you have pre-translated .SDLXLIFF files that you want to review and finalize in a cloud workflow or simply store on your cloud account. For instance, converting pre-processed .SDLXLIFFs to cloud projects can be useful for accessing the extended review capabilities available in the Online Editor.

• Cloud projects now support .ZIP archives
  In the Language Cloud Translation Management offering, we recently introduced support for cloud projects that are created using compressed project files (.ZIP files). This option is available for cloud accounts with access to the Customer Portal.

• Full support for custom placeables in cloud TMs
  The Studio 2021 release has introduced support for customizing the formats of placeables in local and server-based TMs. Placeables, also called recognized tokens, are patterns that Trados Studio identifies as dates, times, numbers, measurements or currency amounts. With this CU, we extend this support to also cover cloud TMs. This means that Trados Studio now also identifies and auto-localizes placeables in cloud TMs according to the custom formats available in the Language Processing Rule of the TM.

• Option to release cloud task from Trados Studio
  If you are on Trados Live Essential, released tasks are automatically reassigned to you, as you are the only user in your cloud account.
  In other flows (within the context of Trados Live Team or translation Management), if you change your mind about working on a cloud project task that you have accepted, you can release it to set its status back to Pending and make it available to the default assignees. This option was previously available only from a browser, but you can now also find it in Trados Studio under Files view > Home tab > Cloud Projects group > Release Task.

• Option to download multiple cloud projects at the same time
  You can now simultaneously download a selection of projects available on your cloud account. After selecting the cloud projects in the Projects view, click the Download Cloud Projects option from the Home tab, or from the context menu. This makes all the selected projects available locally so that you can work with them from Trados Studio.

• New filter for custom type projects
  The Projects view includes a new dynamic filter that refines the list of projects to show only projects created in third-party applications. For each type of third-party project available in the list, the Type drop-down is populated with a corresponding filtering option. For example LingoTek Projects, MultiTrans projects. To work with such projects in Trados Studio, first install the relevant plug-in from the Add-ins tab > SDL AppStore. Offline cloud project packages and TMS packages are considered standard projects. Currently, custom projects are also filtered under the Standard projects filter so you can find them easily without having to first select the corresponding filter.

• Allow source editing for cloud projects files
  You can now update the source text for cloud projects that you create from Trados Studio. Updating the source text segments for cloud projects was previously only possible for projects created from a browser. This CU enhances the New Cloud Project wizard with an option to Allow source editing.

• Language Cloud Terminology is now Trados Live Terminology
  We have rebranded our online terminology management solution to better align it with our other Trados Live cloud offerings. When working from your browser, you will now see references to the new name in the online user interface. In Studio, we are now referring to adding cloud-based terminology to local projects more generically without making references to the new brand name. Existing terminology subscriptions remain valid and are not impacted by this name change.

Fixed Issues

• Trados Studio stopped responding when opening offline cloud packages with custom file type settings. This issue was fixed by mapping the custom file type to the default file types available in Trados Studio. With this fix, you can now open and work with the project files in the Editor view according to the specifications of the custom file type.

• Trados Studio could not read the Project Settings of cloud projects created in a browser if the source or target of a REGEX was missing from the QA Checker settings. This issue is now fixed. (LG-27051)
• Addressed incorrect behavior for machine translation origin and confirmation levels when working with Machine Translation matches using the 'MT!' creation user. (CRQ-21840)
• Fixed issue with Trados Studio not being able to authenticate federated Language Cloud accounts. (LG-26564)
• Fixed 'Object reference' error that occurred when creating new projects based on certain project templates from Trados Studio packages. (LG-26530)
• AutoCorrect can now fix straight quotes. (LG-24754)
• The 'Replace text as you type' feature in AutoCorrect is now triggered even when typing fast. (CRQ-17232)
• When using the Update Main/Project Translation Memories batch tasks on server-based TMs, segments that did not include 'Created by' information were not always tagged with the correct user ID. This issue is now fixed. (LG-16371)
• Fixed error that occurred in specific scenarios when creating new cloud projects after reaching the limit of three target languages for Trados Live Essential subscriptions. (CRQ-22585)
• Trados Studio was showing a 'Cannot access Language Cloud account' error when one or more project files in a cloud project had been canceled from a browser. This issue is now fixed and Trados Studio can now successfully download projects that include canceled project files. (CRQ-22207)
• Fixed error 'Value cannot be null Parameter name: source' that occurred when setting all penalties for a TM to 0 and disabling the 'Get matches for character width differences' option. (CRQ-22412)
• Trados Studio now correctly displays text from right-to-left in the Editor view for the following target languages: Arabic (World), Arabic (Israel), Urdu (India), Kurdish (Perso-Arabic, Iran), Pashto, and Dari. (LG-19365, CRQ-9272, CRQ-8717)
• When updating server-based TMs, Trados Studio was sometimes inserting incorrect data in empty 'Created on' and 'Creation_user' fields. This issue is now fixed. (CRQ-20207)
• Cloud accounts with an SDL Trados Studio Professional L1 subscription could access the 'Align Documents” option only from the File menu or using the keyboard shortcut. This issue is now fixed to also enable access to the 'Align Documents' option from the ribbon. (CRQ-21574)
• Fixed 'Object reference” error that occurred when trying to delete files from a Trados Studio package. (CRQ-21462, CRQ-21462)
• Fixed error 'The process cannot access project file because it is used by another process” that was occurring under certain circumstances when creating a new project. (CRQ-19749, CRQ-19285)
• Fixed issue that was causing the 'Analyze Files' batch task to report incorrect word counts when the 'Contain formatting tags' option was enabled (CRQ-19574).
• During pre-translation, with the 'Apply Track Changes before opening'option in the Microsoft Word 2007-2009 file type switched off, it could happen that Trados Studio was using the incorrect TM matches for text insertions. This issue is now fixed. (CRQ-18413)
• Fixed issue that was resetting the locked segment counts in the Analysis Statistics window after checking in a Trados GroupShare project file. (CRQ-17275)
• Fixed 'Error: Could not find a part of the path' that was occurring when importing project packages with trailing space in the package name. Instead of blocking the package import, Trados Studio now prompts you to change the project folder file path in order to remove any spaces before the '.SDLPPX' file type. (CRQ-17266)
• Fixed 'Object reference” error that occurred when using certain project templates. (CRQ-17082)
• New project folders added in the Files view are now created when the project target language is selected. (CRQ-16828)
• Fixed issue with TMs added under specific language pairs not being saved in new project templates. (CRQ-16418)
• Improved performance when adding a large number of DITA files to an existing project. (CRQ-16368)
• Trados Studio no longer creates extra folders and files when updating project files in a project that contains project folders. (CRQ-15080).
  In addition, updated project files in projects with folders are now correctly opened in Trados Studio. (CRQ-12589)
• Batch editing a server-based TM with the 'Change Field” option enabled now removes existing values as expected. (CRQ-14440)
• Server-based TMs from project templates are no longer automatically activated after being disabled in the Create New Project wizard. (CRQ-13586)
• Fixed 'Failed to deactivate view error” that occurred when switching tabs with the Auto-Hide Ribbon option enabled. (CRQ-12417)
• Trados Studio was incorrectly displaying the error message 'You have set up different translation memories or automated translation providers for certain language pair' when adding and removing a TM for a specific language pair. This issue is now fixed. (CRQ-11926)
• Inline tags displayed in BIDI content were reversed when the option 'Text lines can be wrapped after the tag' was disabled. This issue is now fixed. (CRQ-10115)
• Fixed error with Verify Files batch task not reporting XML Validator errors for .SDLXLIFF files. (CRQ-9894)
• Merging segments across paragraph marks separated by a tag no longer damages Word files under certain circumstances. (CRQ-9004)
• Fixed 'Object reference” error that occurred when accepting all changes in a document with tracked changes outside the translatable segments. (CRQ-8687)
• Fixed 'Index was out of range' error that occurred when disabling a TM with active concordance results. (CRQ-6280)

File Type changes

• Word file type (97-2003 and 2007-2019)

• Fixed “The document cannot be processed since it contains unexpected contents” error that was occurring when opening specific .DOCX files in Trados Studio. (CRQ-21036)

• Excel file type

• .XLS files in right-to-left languages were incorrectly previewed from left-to-right. This issue is now fixed. (LF-5214)
• Fixed “Object reference” error that occurred when opening specific .XLSX files. (LF-5213)
• The Content Processing setting in the Excel 2007-2019 file type was not resetting to the default “Process all cells” option after selecting a different option on the page. This issue is now fixed. (LF-5286)

• Photoshop file type

• Added support for extracting inline formatting, including tag pair merging and QuickInserts. (LF-5102, LF-5104)
• Trados Studio was displaying Photoshop files in a larger font size than the one used in the original source files. This issue is now fixed. (LF-5196)
• Fixed “Failed to save target content: Invalid case' error that occurred when generating specific .PSD target files. (CRQ-19725)
• Trados Studio was incorrectly placing an extra word in specific .PSD files. This issue is now fixed. (CRQ-19467)
• Updated Aspose API dependency for Photoshop. (LF-5028, CRQ-20790, CRQ-20866)

• Custom plain text file type

• Trados Studio sometimes failed to save the target for files that contained the dollar symbol ($). This issue is now fixed. (CRQ-19746)

• XML v.2

• Fixed whitespace processing issue. (CRQ-20663)

• Adobe InDesign CS4 file type

• Added support for Adobe InDesign version 16.0. (CRQ-22368)

• HTML

• Changed default entity conversion setting for certain zero-width characters. (LF-5223)

• Generic Delimited file type

• Added embedded content processing. (CRQ-22368)

• General

• Updated the Aspose.Cells library version for Microsoft Office, Excel and OpenDocument file types. (LF-5288)

Downloading and Installing Cumulative Updates

A cumulative update is usually applied when you use the AutoUpdate functionality available in SDL Trados Studio. Follow the on-screen instructions to download and apply the update. SDL recommends that you use AutoUpdate.
NOTE: Applying the update may take some time, as the SDL Trados Studio installation fully replaces the previously installed version. As a rule of thumb, applying the update will take roughly the same time as installing the application originally. However, you can also apply the patch manually, as follows:

1. Close SDL Trados Studio 2021 SR1.
2. Download the ZIP file SDLTradosStudio2021_SR1_CU4_4184.zip from our Download Center. In Google Chrome, right-click on the hyperlink and select Save Link As... to download the file to a location of your choice. In other browsers, it may be possible to perform the download directly by clicking on the link.
3. The ZIP file contains an .exe file. Extract this file to a temporary folder of your choice, such as C:temp. This .exe file applies to all editions of SDL Trados Studio 2021 SR1.
4. Double-click the .exe file. This will install the latest release and replace as well as update the files in the SDL Trados Studio 2021 SR1 installation folder as appropriate.

After the update release has been installed and SDL Trados Studio or your PC restarted, the issues described in this article should no longer occur.