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May 2024

Shipped a new version of Z Refactoring Assistant. For more information about how to upgrade your existing Z Refactoring Assistant to the new version, see Upgrading.
Improved the performance and quality of Z Refactoring Assistant with the following enhancements and fixes:
- Added basic support for generating COPY statements with REPLACING clause.
- Improved on handling DCLGEN, CURSORS, and REDEFINES in the generated COBOL code.
- Applied fixes to improve the quality of the generated COBOL code.
Enhanced the Visual Studio Code extension for Z Refactoring Assistant with the following new capabilities:
- Added support for slicing backwards on paragraphs and conditional statements through the Visual Studio Code extension for Z Refactoring Assistant. For more information, see Creating a service file.
- Added support for tagging code blocks while slicing on key conditions through the Visual Studio Code extension for Z Refactoring Assistant. For more information, see Creating a service file.

Shipped a new version of Z Refactoring Assistant. For more information about how to upgrade your existing Z Refactoring Assistant to the new version, see Upgrading.
Added support for slicing backwards on paragraphs and conditional statements through the Z Refactoring Assistant Web UI. For more information, see Creating a workbook.
Enhanced the user experience with the Visual Studio Code extension for Z Refactoring Assistant. For more information, check the Using the Z Refactoring Assistant Visual Studio Code extension section and the guide within the Visual Studio Code extension itself.
- The new Code Blocks view simplifies code block management within a service file. For more information, see Using the Code Blocks view.
- You can now delete a code slice from a service file based on a Key Condition. For more information, see Deleting a code slice from an existing workbook.

The Visual Studio Code extension for Z Refactoring Assistant is available. For more information, check the guide in the Visual Code extension itself.
Shipped a new version of Z Refactoring Assistant. For more information about how to upgrade your existing Z Refactoring Assistant to the new version, see Upgrading.