Release · ePublisher 2025.1

Reverb 2.0, reimagined.

ePublisher 2025.1 brings modern accessibility standards, search engine optimization, and intelligent content navigation to your documentation.

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Overview · 01

Introducing 2025.1.

ePublisher 2025.1 centers on Reverb 2.0, bringing modern accessibility standards, search engine optimization, and intelligent content navigation to your documentation. This release addresses the needs documentation teams have been asking for — accessibility compliance, search engine visibility, and better content navigation.

Reverb 2.0 now implements the WAI-ARIA specification throughout, ensuring your documentation is accessible to screen reader users and keyboard-only navigators. SEO features improve how your documentation appears in search results and on social media. The new Landmark ID system provides stable, content-based identifiers that persist across documentation regenerations.

Alongside Reverb 2.0, we've made practical improvements to AutoMap automation and the Markdown++ adapter that address real workflow pain points.

What's new · 02

What's new in 2025.1.

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Comprehensive accessibility support

Reverb 2.0 implements the WAI-ARIA specification throughout, ensuring your documentation is accessible to screen reader users and keyboard-only navigators. Semantic landmarks use HTML5 elements (main, nav, header, footer). Interactive elements include proper ARIA roles and states. Localized ARIA labels in 25 languages. Full keyboard navigation: Alt+N/P for topics, Alt+Home for home, F6 to cycle regions, skip-navigation links to bypass repetitive content.

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SEO and discoverability

Make your documentation discoverable with automatic sitemap.xml generation for search engine crawling, configurable robots.txt for crawler control, Open Graph meta tags for rich previews on Facebook and LinkedIn, and Twitter Card support for optimized link previews on X.

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Landmark IDs and Share Widget

Landmark IDs provide stable, content-based identifiers for navigation to specific locations within your documentation. Using Blake2b hashing, these URLs persist across documentation regenerations — links shared in support tickets or external references won't break when you republish. The Share Widget lets end users copy and share direct links to specific content locations.

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Knowledge Base for AI

Reverb 2.0 now generates a Knowledge Base alongside your help output — a structured Markdown archive designed to be consumed by AI agents. Feed your published content into large language models, custom GPTs, or retrieval-augmented generation workflows. The clean export serves as the foundation for AI-powered documentation assistants.

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AutoMap and Markdown++ improvements

AutoMap gains the --skip-reports option for faster CI/CD builds and Designer project (.wep) support for greater automation flexibility. Markdown++ now emits automatic output markers including PageStyle, GraphicStyle, and IndexMarker. Image DPI handling, multiline table link references, and UTF-8 character support (including FrameMaker pilcrow characters) all improved.

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