Xara Desktop Application Versions

For general interest, these ought to be the most recent versions of the Xara Desktop applications (XDA) apart from Xara 3D.
For those unaware, the Xara flagship is Xara Designer Pro X and all other XDA are sub-versions. All use the same codebase so a Bug in one is a bug in all.

• 11.0.0.38607
• 11.0.1.38998
• 11.1.0.39728
• 11.2.0.40121
• 11.2.0.40208
• 11.2.2.40342 06 August 2015 (Patch)
• 11.2.2.40788
• 11.2.3.40790
• 11.2.4.41531
• 11.2.5.42127
• 12.0.0.44262
• 12.0.0.44740
• 12.0.1.45229
• 12.2.0.45774
• 12.4.0.47404 09 November 2016
• 12.4.1.47518
• 12.4.2.47807
• 12.5.0.nnnnn 09 February 2017
• 12.6.0.49270
• 12.6.1.49367
• 12.6.2.49603
• 12.7.0.nnnnn 07 June2017
• 12.8.0.50771
• 12.8.1.50843 2n July 2017 (Patch)
• 12.8.1.50861 24 July 2017
• 15.0.0.52288 17 November 2017
• 15.0.0.52382
• 15.1.0.53605 03 May 2018
• 15.1.1.54376 17 August 2018
• 16.0.0.nnnnn 15 October 2018
• 16.1.0.56164 04 March 2019
• 16.1.1.56358 20 March 2019 (Patch)
• 16.2.0.56957
• 16.2.1.57326 28 August 2019 (Patch)
• 16.3.0.57723 25 October 2019

Sorry, I don't have all the dates handy; some releases were for specific XDAs. Dates are a bit iffy as Xara declares a release date but this can be weeks after its version date. If anyone has a working undated application version, copy the first line in Help > About (Alt-H-A) and add a Post back here.

Acorn

Xara Designer Pro X 15.1.1.54376 CD x64 Aug 17 2018

my XDP15.1 is:

Xara Designer Pro X 15.1.1.54376 CD x64 Aug 17 2018

which is not on your list ?

snap :)

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my XDP15.1 is: Xara Designer Pro X 15.1.1.54376 CD x64 Aug 17 2018 which is not on your list ?

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Xara Designer Pro X 15.1.1.54376 CD x64 Aug 17 2018

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Thank you both. Added.

Acorn

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For general interest, these ought to be the most recent versions of the Xara Desktop applications (XDA) apart from Xara 3D.

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Interesting and nice to have that list. Thanks for compiling it.

Xara Designer Pro X 11.2.5.42127 CD x64 Dec 9 2015

BTW, I am very happy with this version. Without the nag screens, it would be perfect. I use it for Desktop Publishing and the Web.

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Xara Designer Pro X 11.2.5.42127 CD x64 Dec 9 2015
BTW, I am very happy with this version. Without the nag screens, it would be perfect. I use it for Desktop Publishing and the Web.

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Stupidly, I too have this version installed and I failed to include its version date.

For this one, I changed C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro X11\Online\ to C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro X11\OnlineXXX\ - no more nags.

I will recompile the list when I have a few more affirmations.

Acorn

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Memories! For me, it all started with XS in 2005.

I feel old

@Daniel, thanks for the trip down memory lane. I decide to start as v11 as before that time Xara was casual about CD releases and the detail about the version were less obvious.

You can see the confusion even today with the variety of names out there.

I go back to !ArtWorks v1.5.

Acorn

I'd don't even remember Xs :eek:

X1 and Xtreme 2006 I have....

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I don't think there was any reason that you would have even seen it. It was given away free on some magazine covermounted CDs as either a slightly limited or an older version of a contemporary release - which was available as a cheap upgrade to readers of the magazine.

It wasn't quite a modern day Xara Webster because it was more fully featured. I'm not sure what Webster was ever intended for - at the time there was a free Xara web browser plugin so it wasn't just so that non-Xara users could open .xar files. I wonder how the internet could've been different if .xar and .web files were widely adopted back in 1999.

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I don't think there was any reason that you would have even seen it. It was given away free on some magazine covermounted CDs as either a slightly limited or an older version of a contemporary release - which was available as a cheap upgrade to readers of the magazine.

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That's how it all started for me, a free CD that came with a magazine. I can't remember which magazine it was but XS was the beginning of a long and enjoyable series of yearly (mostly) updates, all the way up to XDP 15.

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I go back to !ArtWorks v1.5

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I think anyone who recognises your avatar would believe that :)
I used Artworks and Impression Junior and later Publisher, but only owned Impression Style.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

I don't think there was any reason that you would have even seen it. It was given away free on some magazine covermounted CDs as either a slightly limited or an older version of a contemporary release - which was available as a cheap upgrade to readers of the magazine.

It wasn't quite a modern day Xara Webster because it was more fully featured. I'm not sure what Webster was ever intended for - at the time there was a free Xara web browser plugin so it wasn't just so that non-Xara users could open .xar files. I wonder how the internet could've been different if .xar and .web files were widely adopted back in 1999.

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I remember those CD's - thats how i got, my first Xara program too, Xara X [the one with the face on the cover] in 2003, it was a trial; Xara X1 came out the next year... I'm a squirrel, I'll have the Xara X CD somewhere....

Latest addition:

• 17.0.0.58732 12 March 2020.

Acorn

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Latest addition:

• 17.0.0.58732 12 March 2020.

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Can you already give us an idea of which new features are included?

Edit: I just saw the other thread where you mention that you're trying to figure out what is new. I'll just wait patiently. :-)

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Can you already give us an idea of which new features are included?
Edit: I just saw the other thread where you mention that you're trying to figure out what is new. I'll just wait patiently. :-)

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I am still downloading content (with niggling errors of missing files) and I have been working with bowj2 on a position statement around the Update Service.

Meantime, look in:

• Help > Contents: Paragraph background and borders.
• Help > Search: Tab Leaders.
• E-books - yippee.

At least the Help files have some additions; the PDF Manual is still v16!

I also searched the catindex.txt files for the latest revision:

• Search "Folder Revision:58048" (16 hits in 16 files)
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\components\im agecomponents\photogrids2_15_1\static169\catindex. txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\components\im agecomponents\photogrids2_15_1\staticsquare\catind ex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\components\im agecomponents\photopanels_16_1\catindex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\components\la youtcomponents\arrows_16_1\catindex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\components\la youtcomponents\tables_16_0\catindex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\components\la youtcomponents\widgets\catindex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\ebooks_17_0\a udio\catindex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\ebooks_17_0\f ollowus\catindex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\ebooks_17_0\l andscape\catindex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\ebooks_17_0\m arketing\catindex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\ebooks_17_0\r estaurant\catindex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\ebooks_17_0\s ecurity\catindex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\ebooks_17_0\u ser_journey\catindex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\ebooks_17_0\y oungbrand\catindex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\print\cards_1 6_0\catindex.txt
  
• \Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\eng\social\instag ram\catindex.txt

Slim pickings but I am hoping there are other Revisions in there since October last.

Acorn

Thanks for the initial findings. Looks indeed rather skimpy so far. But perhaps we'll be happily surprised by some of the new features that are still to be discovered.

This version of Xara Xtreme comes with Magix' video editors Movie Edit Pro, Video Pro X and PhotoStory and maybe some others. I think that there was a version prior to 2014 but I don't have any very old versions of Movie Edit Pro on my computer anymore. Templates of various sizes and formats for CD/DVD's and Jewel Cases are included.

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