iText Core

For our Q3 2024 release of your favorite open-source PDF library we’ve continued our work on refactoring the sign module, with further improvements to digital signatures thanks to a dedicated validation API.

The other big news is the addition of the CSS Grid Layout Module<

It’s time for the second release of 2024 of your favorite open-source PDF library for Java and .NET. This time the big news for iText Core version 8.0.4 is GraalVM Native Image support. Our devs have been hard at work on this feature for a while, and it’s

Another year, and another new release of your favorite open-source PDF library for Java and .NET. This time we're releasing iText Core version 8.0.3, which comes with a ton of great stuff we're sure you're going to love.

As we mentioned last time, the main focus for this release was to further enhance iText’s industry-leading support for PDF digital signatures. Our aim is to make digital signing with iText easier than ever before by providing you with more high-level APIs to utilize, meaning you don’t have to bother with any specification or implementation details - iText does all the heavy lifting for you.

On top of that though, we’ve also been implementing support for the upcoming PDF/UA-2 standard, and improved our automated checks for PDF/A and PDF/UA creation in Core and pdfHTML, So, without further ado…

The iText 7 Core 7.2.6 release is a maintenance release for iText 7.2.x which includes some recent CVE mitigations and backports from 8.0.x releases.
It addresses two CVE issues (CVE-2023-6299, CVE-2023-33201) which were fixed in the release of iText Core 8.0.2.
We've also backported the bouncy castle update to 1.75 version.

The iText 7 Core 7.1.19 release is a maintenance release for iText 7.1.x which includes some recent CVE mitigations and backports from 8.0.x releases.

We've backported the bouncy castle update to 1.75 version which fixes the vulnerability CVE-2023-33201.

Just in time for Halloween, here's a new release of your favorite open-source PDF library for Java and .NET. There's nothing spooky about: iText Core version 8.0.2 and the updated iText Suite add-ons in this release though! Let's take a closer look.

PDF/A-4 support

First and foremost, we've extended iText Core's support for the creation and validation of PDF/A compliant documents to include the latest PDF/A-4 standard. PDF/A-4 is based on the PDF 2.0 specification, unlike the previous PDF/A-3 standard which was based on PDF 1.7. This means it allows some of the new features of PDF 2.0, such as page-level output intents for accurate color interpretation, an updated Unicode version, and improvements to Tagged PDF.

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Q3 of 2023 is here, and so is a new release of your favorite open-source PDF library for Java and .NET: iText Core 8.0.1! Following the release of iText Suite version 8.0.0 in Q2, you might not be expecting much from a simple patch release. However, we do have a few nice things to talk about.

There’s also a neat feature for the sign module, to follow on from the improvements introduced in 8.0.0. We’ve introduced algorithm agnostic signing/validation so if you wish you can now make use of algorithms not directly supported by iText, but supported by the underlying Bouncy Castle cryptographic library. This is also supported for the Java bc-fips library, but not currently by the .NET version. Note that if you use algorithms not specifically supported by the PDF specification, iText will output a warning to let you know.

It’s time for our second quarterly release of the iText Suite; yet as we promised last time, this release of the open-source iText Core PDF library and the add-ons which make up the iText Suite is a little bit different. And not just because this is the first release of the iText Suite under the Apryse banner!

Seven years after the first release of version 7 of the iText library, we’re proud to announce the release of iText Core version 8 – aka iText 8.

What's new?

Just as with the 2016 release of the iText library, iText version 8 has been rewritten and refined to meet the meet the needs of modern document processing. While version 7 was designed around the then upcoming PDF 2.0 specification, iText Core 8.0.0 introduces a number of new features and support for the latest crypto

Happy 2023 everyone! Thanks to our regular quarterly release schedule, the start of a new year also means you can expect a new release of your favorite open-source PDF library: iText Core 7.2.5!

That's not all though, since if you read our blog you'll know that a brand-new version of iText is in the works. iText 8 is coming, and our development team are hard at work adding new features and revising the API to make it even more intuitive for developers. You can learn about some of the things we have planned in our release blog, but customers can get a sneak-peak by checking out the 8.0 snapshots from our Artifactory. Things could still break or change in the API before release though, so be warned!

As for iText Core 7.2.5 though we've still got plenty of neat stuff to talk about, so let's get right into it

The iText 7 Core 7.1.18 release is a maintenance release for iText 7.1.x which includes some recent CVE mitigations and backports from 7.2.x releases.

It addresses two CVE issues (CVE-2022-24196, CVE-2022-24197) which were fixed in the release of iText 7 Core 7.2.2. In addition, we've also backported a fix from our 7.2.1 release which fixes improper nesting of canvas operators when converting SVG to PDF by supporting q/Q Operators inside BT/ET text blocks and objects.

As the last quarter of 2022 rolls around, it’s time for our final release of the year for iText 7 Core. While there’s nothing quite as big to announce as the Android reference implementation from last time, we do have a few cool new things in iText 7.2.4 to tell you about. There’s a nice convenience method improvement for creating tagged PDFs, plus a couple of changes relating to default color spaces for PDF/A documents, and for PDF/A detection in the sign module.

Let’s talk about the changes to PDF tagging first. We noticed that when you apply iText's tagging defaults to somewhat advanced layouts, it could result in rather convoluted tag structures. You could remedy such issues by calling getAccessibilityProperties().setRole(null) on the layout element(s) that don't have semantic value, which attaches all children of the layout element to t