Below are the release notes that document the new features, improvements and bug fixes that were included in the various releases of the XV4 version of Q++Studio in 2026.
See also: release notes 1999-2025 and recently-updated help topics.
March 9, 2026 (XV4 build 25333)
Improved
•Added message 188915 to better indicate circumstances when a minicalendar weekly bands token will be ignored.
Fixed
•Fixed an rarely occurring bug which generated a spurious, but harmless, message 174480 during scanning if a minicalendar was in an InDesign table which was anchored in a box with 9 or more objects anchored before it (6-mar-2026).
February 28, 2026 (XV4 build 25322)
New
•Q++Studio's support for all versions of InDesign, from InDesign 2020 to InDesign 2026, now includes tested support for the latest update to InDesign 2025 (version 20.5.2 of February 9, 2026).
Improved
•When using InDesign, tokens can now be placed in type-on-path, as well as in textboxes anchored inside type-on-path.
Fixed
•Fixed the spurious appearance of the run-time message 187315 (JMata, 14-feb-2026).
January 31, 2026 (XV4 build 25279)
New
•Q++Studio's support for all versions of InDesign, from InDesign 2020 to InDesign 2026, now includes tested support for the latest update to InDesign 2026 (version 21.2 of January 23, 2026).
Fixed
•Using dates framing and shading for the current days or wrap to top dates of minicalendars would apply the framing/shading on every day, not only the specific dates (JMata, 16-jan-2026).
•The override layer minicalendar modifier was not working in some cases of multiple attributes and multiple overrides (JMata, 14-jan-2026).
December 31, 2025 (XV4 build 25260)
New
•Q++Studio's support for all versions of QuarkXPress, from QuarkXPress 8 to QuarkXPress 2026, now includes tested support for the latest update to QuarkXPress 2026 (version 22.0.1 of December 2025).
•Q++Studio's support for all versions of InDesign, from InDesign 2020 to InDesign 2026, now includes tested support for the latest update to InDesign 2026 (version 21.1 of December 18, 2025).
Improved
•Improved the user interface used to specify exceptions to recurring holidays rules. The dates and years are now listed in reverse chronological order (with the latest ones first) and after adding or modifying a date or year, it is automatically selected.
•Improved the user interface used to set date ranges recurring holidays. The dates are now listed in reverse chronological order (with the latest ones first) and after adding or modifying a date range, it is automatically selected.
•Improved the date picker of the slogans manager.
•Improvements to the UI of the script preview window. In particular, signatures are better identified and the page of signature is now also displayed.
•When encountering messages such as 15016 and 15032, the options proposed to you now include the possibility of re-scanning/re-inspecting only the scriptlines that need it.
•Removed message 176075 when using InDesign.
•The list of slogans is now displayed in an advanced data grid, allowing you to easily locate slogans using filter criteria.
•You can now use the <sub> tag to apply the subscript attribute to parts of the names of recurring holidays, one-time-dates, and slogans.
•Optimized the re-inspection of multiple lines of information pages when more than one of these was based on the same QuarkXPress or InDesign file.
•Message 172730 now explicitly lists the dates that are duplicated.
Fixed
•The single box delete zap token in an InDesign table would only work on the first set of pages of a template (JMata, 31-dec-2025).
•In the database querying module, any query which altered the database (as opposed to just querying it) would succeed but nonetheless issue an error message (16-dec-2025).
•The replace function in the macros editor was not functioning correctly (JMata, 12-dec-2025).
•The minicalendar modifiers used to convert minicalendar markers using a macro would not work in combination with a current week offset modifier (Burde, 10-dec-2025).
•Ampersands (&) would not be displayed correctly in the HTML preview of recurring holidays, one-time-dates, and slogans (Lecas, 7-dec-2025).
Previous Years
See also: release notes 1999-2025 and recently-updated help topics.
Topic 151700, last updated on 09-Mar-2026
