Below are the release notes that document the new features, improvements and bug fixes that were included in the various releases of the XE3 version of Q++Studio in 2025 (previous years' release notes can be found here).
July 16, 2025 (XE3 build 25108)
New
•Q++Studio's support for all versions of QuarkXPress, from QuarkXPress 5 to QuarkXPress 2025, now includes tested support for the latest update to QuarkXPress 2025 (version 21.1.2 of July 2025).
•Added contextual highlighting to the macros code editor, allowing you to better visualize and/or navigate your code.
Fixed
•Fixed an issue recognizing the more recent versions of the QuarkXPress 2024 and 2025 file and XPress tags formats (Croxley, 15-july-2025).
•Added code to prevent stack overflow in the status dialog user interface in extremely rare cases of a diary with a large number of pages (over 500-600) and many dozens of saras (Burde, 4-july-2025).
June 30, 2025 (XE3 build 25074)
Fixed
•Fixed a UI glitch whereby the minicalendar preview would not reflect the use of the [ddd] shortened token to display weekdays (Brunnen, 26-june-2025).
•Fixed a rare UI glitch whereby some text strings would not be displayed in blue in the macro code editor (20-june-2025).
•Message 188560 would be issued spuriously for tokens inside a zap token in a backtrack every month template (JMata, 12-june-2025).
•In some of the more convoluted and complex cases, the <DELETE>.variable holiday name response marker would not be identified (4-june-2025).
May 31, 2025 (XE3 build 25006)
Improved
•Added the ALWAYS holiday name variation type.
•Added a message to warn you of tokens that have no DayValues in backtrack every month templates.
Fixed
•The color selection controls of the weekly bands minicalendar options would try to match CMYK values rather than color names (Quo Vadis, 19-may-2025).
•The macro function List_RemoveDuplicates was not always removing duplicates (Nippecraft, 19-may-2025).
April 30, 2025 (XE3 build 24957)
New
•Added tokens to display ascending/descending financial day numbers and financial week numbers.
Fixed
•Fixed a bug in the macro function IsInsideMonth (27-apr-2025).
March 31, 2025 (XE3 build 24922)
New
•Q++Studio's support for all versions of QuarkXPress, from QuarkXPress 5 to QuarkXPress 2025, now includes tested support for the latest update to QuarkXPress 2025 (version 21.0.3 of March 2025).
February 28, 2025 (XE3 build 24867)
Improved
•Added a detailed caveat about Chinese year numbers to this documentation.
Fixed
•Fixed some issues with the use of sections output file type (3-feb-2025).
January 31, 2025 (XE3 build 24819)
Improved
•Changed references to the C:\ and Q:\ drives in this documentation to a more general reference to the server folder to better cover both standalone-workstation and multiple-workstations configurations.
•Added more information to message 172170 and the message now also triggers preemptively before the undefined color request is sent to QuarkXPress.
Fixed
•Fixed the spurious appearance of message 177955 under certain conditions (Yangjisa, 21-jan-2025).
Previous Years
See also: release notes 1999-2024.
Topic 151700, last updated on 15-Jul-2025
