The release notes say this:

  • Updated PNG importer to use resolution if specified in file. (SPR 2159593)
  • Fixed possible missing paragraph end when hyphenator fits final word onto the line. (SPR 2164595)
  • Fixed problem where footnotes were not always correctly placed when ‘Reduce space’ option applied. (SPR 2114967)
  • Updated PDFlib to version 8.0.5p2 (SPR 2183149)
  • Fixed problem using EPS files in PDF/X output. (SPR 2183149)
  • Improvements to memory usage and performance of XML DOM support.
  • Fixed issues serializing XML DOM with namespaces.
  • Fixed SVG Importer handling of text-anchor on tspan elements.
  • Fixed handling of FOM table and block footnotes when used as sidenotes.
  • Fixed issue where on demand indexes can lose index references. (SPR 2179911)
  • Fixed issues where changing layers or layergroups in FOM can cause crashes (SPR 2156760)
  • Fixed crash searching in JS tags (SPR 2165067)
  • Fixed FOM fRules.removeRule() and fRules.clearRules() (SPR 2170887)
  • Fixed FOM fNamedColor object to handle new gradients correctly (SPR 2132055, 2172006)
  • Fixed reporting of errors from FOM fxNode.evaluateXPath()
  • Fixed multiple footnote issues particularly related to multiple columns working with combined footnotes and shrinking the footnote frame to bring back text (SPR 2114561)
  • Fixed problem loading bundles in Win64 version.
  • Fixed bad line breaking in Korean text. (SPR 2176014)

And the FOM release notes say this:

  • Added fPublishEvents object
  • Added fContent.events property
  • Added fBarcode object
  • Added fContent.createBarcode object
  • Added id parameter to fFormatting.pageSequenceBreak() method
  • Added fPage.pageseqIsBlank property
  • Added fFrame.gutterRuleMode property
  • Added fFrame.GutterRuleModes constant group
  • Removed fxNode.isNsInScope() method. This property is still available on fxNode, but is now deprecated and should no longer be used
  • Added fxNode.lookupNamespacePrefix() method
  • Added mode to fBlock.resetCounters and fTable.resetCounters properties
  • Added fTableResolved.inRepeatedHeader property
  • Fixed fPSPrinter.MODE_MONOCHROME and fPSPrinter.MODE_COLOR constants

You will notice that there are a couple of new objects. fBarcode and fContent.createBarcode allow you to create barcodes and QR codes in APP. I will add some information about it to the PTC Community site including a sample file. The fPublishEvents object, together with fContent.events, allow you to execute a JavaScript function when certain events occur during printing and formatting. At the moment the events are the start and end of the print and format process and the start and end of a page during both print and format processes. We will be extending this further in the future.