In version 1.6 is fixed the problem in the MergeToNewArticle that did not consider custom article attributes: When merging stories to a new article in clients, the error "Unrecognized attribute 'ioc_iptccodes'" occurred, where 'ioc_iptccodes' was a custom attribute of gn4:article.
The problem was that the ObjectUI 'MergeToUI' in ted4_config.xml contained the following 'init' section:
<init>
<gn4:folderObject>
. . .
instead of
<init>
<gn4:article>
. . .
and so the ObjectUI was not able to recognize 'ioc_iptccodes' as attribute of the gn4:article object.