New in StyleVision Server 2025 Release 2

Version 2025 Release 2 of Altova StyleVision Server was announced on March 25, 2024. Learn about all the new features below and update to the latest version.

StyleVision^® Server 2025r2 (March 25, 2025)
Support for PDF Accessiblity Features
Support for FOP 2.10
Support for MySQL 9.0/9.1
Support for IBM DB2 12.1

Support for PDF accessiblity features

PDF/UA (ISO 14289) is an international standard established to improve accessibility in PDF technology. Designed for developers creating PDF writing and processing software, PDF/UA outlines clear requirements for making PDFs accessible so that individuals with disabilities can use assistive technologies such as screen readers, magnifiers, and adaptive input devices to navigate and read digital content effectively.

StyleVision 2025r2 has an option to enable PDF/UA compatiblity for generated PDFs, and StyleVision Server also supports this functionality.

Support for FOP 2.10

StyleVision Server supports the latest version of FOP for PDF generation.

MySQL 8.4
MariaDB 10.11, 11.2, 11.4

Updated database support

StyleVision and StyleVision Server 2025 provide updated support for the database versions below.

MySQL 8.4
MariaDB 10.11, 11.2, 11.4

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New Features in Previous Versions

Learn about all the additional functionality that has been added in each release of StyleVision Server.

StyleVision^® Server 2025 (October 22, 2024)
Support for MySQL 8.4
Support for MariaDB 10.11, 11.2, 11.4

StyleVision^® Server 2024r2 (April 23, 2024)
Support for Apache PDF Box 3.0.1
Support for MySQL 8.2 & 8.3, PostgreSQL 16, MariaDB 11.2, SQLite 3.45

StyleVision^® Server 2024 October 24, 2023)
Native support for MySQL and MariaDB
Faster PDF generation
Support for FOP 2.9

StyleVision^® Server 2023r2 April 12, 2023)
Support for embedding images in HTML output
Support for FOP 2.8
Support for Firebird 4, PostgreSQL 15, SQL Server 2022

StyleVision^® Server 2023 October 19, 2022)
Support for HTML tags in the HEAD HTML element
Hiding disabled portions of a design in rendered output
Support for additional database versions
Support for additional server OS versions

StyleVision^® Server 2022r2 (March 8, 2022)
Support for FOP 2.7
Support for additional database versions
Support for macOS Monterey 12

StyleVision^® Server 2022 (October 27, 2021)
Automated output of pure text
Support for additional database versions
Support for Windows 11
Support for macOS Big Sur and Linux Debian 11

StyleVision^® Server 2021r3 (June 1, 2021)
Bug fixes and other improvements

StyleVision^® Server r2 (March 4, 2021)
Support for installation on Windows Server Core
Support for CentOS 8
Support for FOP 2.6
Support for IBM DB2 for iSeries 7.4

StyleVision^® Server 2021 (October 14, 2020)
XBRL Taxonomy Manager
Support for attaching files to PDF
Updated support for MariaDB

StyleVision^® Server 2020r2 (March 17, 2020)
Support for FOP 2.4
Support for additional database versions
Support for OS X 10.15

StyleVision^® Server 2020 (October 9, 2019)
Support for additional database versions

StyleVision^® Server 2019r3 (April 2, 2019)
Support for FOP 2.3
Support for additional database versions
Support for Windows Server 2019
Support for macOS 10.14

StyleVision^® Server 2019 (October 17, 2018)
Support for MIME compatible HTML
Support for additional database versions

StyleVision^® Server 2018 (April 17, 2018)
Support for Teradata 16 and MariaDB 10 databases

StyleVision^® Server 2018 (October 3, 2017)
Support for PXF files including new features of StyleVision 2018

StyleVision^® Server 2017 Release 3 (April 4, 2017)
Windows Server 2016 Support
OSX 10.12 (Sierra) Support
Support for PXF files including new features of StyleVision 2017r3

StyleVision^® Server 2017 (October 4, 2016)
Ability to extract data from filled PDF forms as XML or Acrobat FMF (Forms Data Format) data
Support for PXF files including new features of StyleVision 2017

StyleVision^® Server 2016 Release 2 (February 16, 2016)
Support for pending server licenses to automatically transition to a new license when a current license expires
Support for PXF files including new features of StyleVision 2016r2

StyleVision^® Server 2016 (September 30, 2015)
Support for Firebird databases included in stylesheets created in StyleVision 2016
Support for Windows 10
Support for new Linux versions: Debian 8 & Ubuntu 15

StyleVision^® Server 2015 Release 4 (June 10, 2015)
Support for SQLite 3.x databases included in stylesheets created in StyleVision 2015 Release 4

StyleVision^® Server 2015 Release 3 (February 25, 2015)
Support for XPath 3.1 and XBRL Table Linkbase functionality included in StyleVision 2015 Release 3

StyleVision^® Server 2015 (September 17, 2014)
New API for control of StyleVision Server – Allows StyleVision Server to be executed natively by programs written in C# and VB.NET in Windows, from other Windows apps via a COM interface, and from Java programs in Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Support for database-based designs – Adds to support for XML and XBRL-based report designs

StyleVision^® Server 2014 Release 2 (March 19, 2014)
Support for macOS 10.9 – Adds to previous support for Mac OS

StyleVision^® Server 2014 (October 29, 2013)
Powered by RaptorXML – StyleVision Server now supports XML Schema 1.1 and other standards needed for compatibility with XMLSpy 2014

StyleVision^® Server 2013 Release 2 Service Pack 1 (June 12, 2013)
Mac OS support – StyleVision Server 2013 is now available for the Mac OS platform

StyleVision^® Server 2013 (April 29, 2013)
Cross-platform support – StyleVision Server 2013 is available in versions for Windows and Linux platforms

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