Collaborator Release Notifications

Welcome to Collaborator v13.1!

Collaborator 13.1 is the latest release from the dev collaboration team at SmartBear. This new version primarily focuses on improved performance.  There are also a few other helpful enhancements that are worth checking out – the ability to edit/delete comments and split chat messages, to name a few.

Edit/Delete Comments

End users have always been able to redact comments in Collaborator.  However, there has never been a way to edit or delete a comment.  Collaborator 13.1 now supports editing and deleting.  It is important to note that this feature will need to be enabled by an administrator.  This ensures that those organizations that need an unmodified record can continue to operate has they always have and those organizations that want more flexibility can have it by enabling this new feature.

Edit/Delete Comments

Document Conversion Speeds

Documents for newly created reviews will now be converted more quickly.  As an end user you will be able to immediately see the files in the diff viewer and see the conversion counter increment as the file is processed.  Our team tested against 33 sample files and the average processing time is now 2x faster than previous versions of Collaborator.

Database Query Reductions

Improvements were realized by caching metadata that allowed for the decrease in queries to the database.  The reduction in queries will improve overall Collaborator server performance.

Document Conversion Information

Prior to Collaborator 13, if a page in the document could not be converted, Collaborator would indicate the there was a problem with the entire document.  Now, if there is an issue, just the page that fails to convert will show an error in the diff viewer and the rest of the document will be processed.  Please note that the failed page my impact Collaborator’s ability to accurately diff the document.

Split Chat Messages

On the Review Summary screen, Collaborator displayed all chat messages as part of a single thread.  This meant that both user and system messages were combined in one long discourse.  Now, chat messages are broken out into three tabs.  This allows users to focus on the types of messages they are most interested in.

To learn more about Collaborator 13.1, please check out the links below.

Download the latest release of Collaborator.

You can view the full list of fixes and improvements here.

If you have any questions about licensing, please contact sales. If you have any technical support questions, please contact SmartBear Support.

Best Wishes,
Justin Collier & The SmartBear Team