What's new in this release
An overview of the new features and functionality of this Machine Translation Edge product release.
Version 8.4.5
SDL Machine Translation Edge version 8.4.5 is a patch release which contains the following fixes:
- Removed temporary training-queue folder, after adaptation completes, when creating an adapted LP
- Fixed the licensing race-condition that might cause engines to be incorrectly reported as unlicensed until the service is restarted
Version 8.4.4
SDL Machine Translation Edge version 8.4.4 is a patch release which contains the following:
- New features and enhancements
- Improved throughput and reduce latency for small concurrent translations
- Used database write-ahead-logging to improve overall translation performance under heavy load
- Added SAML role-based authentication for Azure
- Updated the SDL Trados GroupShare integration to create and use a Translation Memory for each project template
- Added the automatic check-in for SDL Trados GroupShare files before allowing users to download them
- Added a UI option to retry a cancelled Adapted LP training
- Added support for new a new "Strict XML" mime-type (text/x-sdl-strict-xml) that forces segmentation after each XML tag
- Improved segmentation performance for large documents
- Improved Language Detection accuracy
- Changed default RabbitMQ port to 5673 on new installations to avoid collisions with other RabbitMQ installations (and used non-default node name)
- Preserve TLS settings on upgrade if they had been manually configured
- Performed various updates to improve licensing information and error messages
- Added a new Usage Reports page and a Settings option to enable/disable report logging (Beta)
- Fixes
- Fixed Dictionary support when using Edge-Cloud engines
Version 8.4.3
SDL Machine Translation Edge version 8.4.3 is a minor release which contains the following new features:
- SSO (Single Sign-On) with SAML support
- Interactive editing with SDL Trados GroupShare integration
- Language Pair Chaining
- SDL ETS is rebranded and is now called SDL Machine Translation Edge
Version 8.4.2
SDL Machine Translation Edge version 8.4.2 is a patch release which contains the following fixes:
- Fixed the handling of soft hyphens in Microsoft Office documents in order to prevent mixed text
- Fixed hot reloading when a new SDL Machine Translation Edge license file is uploaded (a server restart would sometimes be required for the changes to take effect)
Version 8.4.1
SDL Machine Translation Edge version 8.4.1 is a patch release which contains the following changes:
- Improved segmentation to reduce neural babble for very long segments
- Improved language pair adaptation speed
- Non-printable whitespace in
*.htmlinput are now properly handled to prevent concatenation of words
Version 8.4
SDL Machine Translation Edge version 8.4 is a major release which introduces a major new feature: On-Premises Neural SDL Machine Translation Edge Trainer with the ability to train Adaptable Language Pairs.
What's new
- SDL Machine Translation Edge Trainer and Adaptable Language Pairs enable organizations to adapt NMT on their own, without the need to share their data. Customers can train their model on premises (or in their private cloud), at their own pace, while keeping their data secured at all times. Moreover, customers can train and re-train their models to adjust them continuously, as their data and usage grow. SDL Machine Translation Edge Trainer ensures:
- Data privacy - Privacy is always guaranteed: data remains on-premise and does not need to leave the secure enterprise perimeter.
- Improved accuracy - By leveraging existing bilingual parallel data, the baseline generic language pairs can be trained to translate the enterprise content with an improved accuracy.
- Continuous adaptation and quality improvement - Models can be trained as needed, according to the data growth. Models constantly improve as they get trained with new data, without the need to contact SDL.
- Deployment flexibility - Adapted Language Pairs can be deployed on-premise in SDL ETS, but can also be safely deployed to SDL BeGlobal.
- Simplified licensing model - The SDL Machine Translation Edge 8.4 licenses only require that a language pair's ID match the source and target language specified in the license.
Enhancements
- When the TLS configuration changes, users are warned of potential problems.
- When worker hosts connect to the master host, worker hosts fall back to using the IP address if the name of the master host is not resolvable.
- CPM (Characters-Per-Minute) translation rate is added in the job status results.
Resolved Issues
- The Login agreement is displayed for all new users.
- GPU mode can be selected when adding Translation Engines in the UI.
- The format of the translation job output is displayed properly before the translation is completed.
- The paragraph text extracted from Word documents is segmented correctly.
- Language detection no longer misidentifies UTF8 control characters as invalid.
Deprecated or removed features
- Browse Translate is no longer supported in SDL Machine Translation Edge 8.4
- RHEL version 6 is no longer supported in SDL Machine Translation Edge 8.4
- Support for K80 GPU is deprecated in SDL Machine Translation Edge 8.4