# What's New in ReportingCloud in 2019 > ReportingCloud in 2019: TX Text Control X16, TXT output, thumbnails of uploaded documents, removeEmptyLines, tracked changes endpoints and the status page. - **Product:** ReportingCloud - **Section:** Documentation - **Kind:** Topic - **Path:** ReportingCloud > What's New > Older Versions > What's New in ReportingCloud in 2019 - **1285 words** - **Web URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/whats-new/older-versions/2019/ - **LLMs URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/whats-new/older-versions/2019/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/whats-new/older-versions/2019/llms-full.txt --- TX Text Control X16 reached ReportingCloud in January 2019, and the year brought plain text output and the last new endpoints: thumbnails of uploaded documents and the processing endpoints for tracked changes. The merge settings gained `removeEmptyLines`. A status page has reported the availability of the service since April, and the documentation became an open source project. ### Changes at a Glance | Date | Change | |---|---| | December 18 | PHP SDK 2.6.0 for PHP 7.4 | | August 9 | Tracked changes endpoints | | July 24 | ASP.NET Core tutorial | | May 10 | The merge setting `removeEmptyLines` | | April 9 | The status page | | March 7 | Thumbnails of uploaded documents | | February and March | Java and Ruby SDK updates | | February 20 | Plain text output | | February 11 | Open source documentation | | January 3 | TX Text Control X16 | | January 3 | PHP SDK 2.0.2 returns templates as binary data | ### TX Text Control - **TX Text Control X16 (January 3).** The backend, the portal, the template editor and the editor widget moved to TX Text Control X16, [version 26.0](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/whats-new/older-versions/2600/llms-full.txt), which brought more than 100 formulas compatible with Microsoft Excel and the sorting and filtering of merge blocks. See [ReportingCloud: Backend Updated to TX Text Control X16](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/01/03/impact-of-the-azure-reboot-strategy/). ### Web API - **Tracked changes (August 9).** A new group of endpoints, processing, works with tracked changes: [POST /v1/processing/review/trackedchanges](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/reference/web-api/processing/review-trackedchanges/post/llms-full.txt) lists the tracked changes of a document, and [POST /v1/processing/review/removetrackedchange](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/reference/web-api/processing/review-removetrackedchange/post/llms-full.txt) accepts or rejects one of them. The .NET SDK supports them from version 1.204.500 of the same day, the PHP SDK from version 2.5.0 of September 2, 2019. See [Tracked Changes](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/document-processing/tracked-changes/llms-full.txt) and [New Endpoint: Manipulating Tracked Changes in Documents](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/08/09/manipulating-tracked-changes-in-documents/). - **Removing empty lines (May 10).** The merge setting `removeEmptyLines`, `false` by default, removes lines that hold nothing but empty merge fields. The .NET SDK added the property `RemoveEmptyLines` in version 1.203.500 of the same day. See [Merge Settings](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/mail-merge/settings/llms-full.txt) and [ReportingCloud: New MergeSettings property to remove empty lines](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/05/10/new-mergesettings-property-to-remove-empty-lines/). - **Thumbnails of uploaded documents (March 7).** [POST /v1/document/thumbnails](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/reference/web-api/document/thumbnails/post/llms-full.txt) renders the pages of a document sent with the request; before, only stored templates could be rendered, with [GET /v1/templates/thumbnails](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/reference/web-api/templates/thumbnails/get/llms-full.txt). The .NET SDK added it in version 1.202.500 of March 5, the PHP SDK in version 2.2.0 of March 6. See [Thumbnails](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/document-processing/thumbnails/llms-full.txt) and [New ReportingCloud Endpoint: Creating Document Thumbnails](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/03/07/new-endpoint-creating-document-thumbnails/). - **Plain text output (February 20).** The return format `TXT` lets [POST /v1/document/convert](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/reference/web-api/document/convert/post/llms-full.txt) extract the text of a PDF, DOCX or HTML document. The .NET SDK supports it from version 1.201.500 of February 19, the PHP SDK from version 2.1.0 of February 25. [Supported File Formats](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/overview/file-formats/llms-full.txt) lists the endpoints that return it; see also [ReportingCloud: Extract Plain Text from Adobe PDF, MS Word or HTML Documents](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/02/20/extract-plain-text-adobe-pdf-using-reportingcloud/). ### Service - **Status page (April 9).** [status.reporting.cloud](https://status.reporting.cloud) shows whether the Web API, the portal and the backend are available, and lists reported incidents. See [Getting Support](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/troubleshooting/support/llms-full.txt) and [ReportingCloud: Web API Health Status Page](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/04/09/reportingcloud-health-status-page/). ### SDKs - **PHP 7.4 (December 18).** PHP SDK 2.6.0 supports PHP 7.4. - **Java and Ruby SDKs (February and March).** Both gained the TXT return format and methods for appending documents and for the API key endpoints: the Ruby gem `txtextcontrol-reportingcloud` in versions 1.2.0 of February 28 and 1.2.1 of March 4, the Java SDK between February 21 and March 4, 2019. See [Java](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/sdks/java/llms-full.txt) and [Ruby](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/sdks/ruby/llms-full.txt). - **Binary templates (January 3).** In PHP SDK 2.0.2, `downloadTemplate` returns the template as binary data instead of a Base64 string, which needs a change in code that decoded the result; see [Breaking Changes](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/whats-new/breaking-changes/#2019). ### Documentation - **ASP.NET Core tutorial (July 24).** A quickstart tutorial of the documentation merged a template of the Sample Template Gallery into a PDF document in an ASP.NET Core MVC application. [ASP.NET Core](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/getting-started/dotnet/aspnet-core/llms-full.txt) is its successor. - **Open source documentation (February 11).** The documentation was published as an open source project on [GitHub](https://github.com/TextControl/ReportingCloud-Docs), with an interactive tutorial for a first document from February 19. It is the source of this documentation, and [Web API](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/getting-started/web-api/llms-full.txt) replaces the interactive tutorial. See [ReportingCloud: Open Source Documentation Released](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/02/11/open-source-documentation-released/). ### Related Pages - [Web API](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/reference/web-api/llms-full.txt): every endpoint as it works today. - [2020](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/whats-new/2020/llms-full.txt): the next year, with the Laminas module of the PHP SDK. - [2018](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/whats-new/older-versions/2018/llms-full.txt): the previous year, with TX Text Control X15 and appending documents. --- ## Nearby - **Previous:** [Older Versions](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/whats-new/older-versions/llms-full.txt) - **Next:** [What's New in ReportingCloud in 2018](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/whats-new/older-versions/2018/llms-full.txt)