We are pleased to announce the release of SDL Translation Management System 2011 Service Pack 5 Cumulative Update (CU) 2. For comprehensive information on this release, please be sure to consult the attached Release Notes and any other material and Knowledge Base articles referenced on this page.

As part of SDL’s strategy to deliver a consolidated localization ecosystem, we are pleased to announce that with this release, SDL TMS now integrates directly with SDL Studio GroupShare. Rather than having to manually download Studio Packages from SDL TMS, users can now, with a single click, publish translation packages to and retrieve translation packages from SDL Studio GroupShare from a new dedicated page in TMS. These automated operations increase productivity across the supply chain, deliver more control over the translation cycle and enable faster and more cost-effective collaboration. Detailed information about using the SDL TMS - SDL Studio GroupShare integration is available in the SDL TMS QSG - GroupShare Studio Integration attached to this article. The QuickStart Guide is also available in the SDL TMS – My Downloads section.

The creation of Studio Packages has been significantly enhanced and it is now possible to group tasks from multiple TMS jobs in the same Studio Package. As in previous versions of SDL TMS, Studio packages are still restricted by language pair. Additionally, the selected tasks must have in common the same cost banding and utilize the same Studio Project Template. Otherwise, separate packages are created per variance. The naming of Studio packages has also been improved. Information about the way SDL TMS names SDL Trados Studio Package is available in KB article 6464.

In addition, SDL TMS 2011 SP5 CU2 further increases interoperability with SDL Trados Studio, now allowing the import of SDL XLIFF files into SDL TMS Translation Memories using the SDL TMS User Interface. These are uploaded as other supported import formats on the TM > TM Edit page. 

Finally, SDL TMS 2011 SP5 CU2 continues to support SDL Passolo 2011 SP9. It now also fully supports SDL Passolo 2015 and the .tbulic15 format. Additionally, the Export Wizard for both SDL Passolo 2011 and SDL Passolo 2015 has been modified to allow users to enter a user-friendly name for the jobs created in TMS. As for previous versions, the SDL TMS Add-ins for Passolo are available in SDL TMS under Home > My Downloads.

For more details on this and other changes and fixes implemented in this release, please refer to the Release Notes: SDL TMS 2011 SP5 CU2 Release Notes.pdf

Prerequisites:
This release is available via an upgrade installer which will update your version of SDL TMS to the current release.

Before running the SDL TMS 2011 SP5 CU2 upgrade installer, you must first install Microsoft® .NET Framework 4 Update on the server - for more details, see KB article 6149.

The main application software is dependent on Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5, but the installer contains components which require a later version.

Installation and upgrade process:
Customers interested in upgrading to SDL TMS 2011 SP5 Cumulative Update 2 are encouraged to contact SDL Support to coordinate the assistance with pre-upgrade planning, custom component review and validation and upgrade execution and validation. If you have a Support and Maintenance contract with SDL, you can access SDL Support at the SDL Gateway.

• This upgrade will restart the web server (IIS) and all SDL TMS services, so a short window of server downtime will be required. If you are installing on a multi-server environment, the database operations will only be performed during the installation on the first server.
• You are advised to refresh your browser cache after an SDL TMS update.
• Follow the SDL TMS 2011 Installation Guide. A copy is available at: http://producthelp.sdl.com/SDL_TMS_2011/en/guides/SDL_TMS_2011_Installation_Guide.pdf.
• The installation ISO image is available at: ftp://sdlpatches:5dlpatch35@ftp-emea.sdlproducts.com/SDL TMS/2011 SP5/CU2.