🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 21.0.11+10
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.54
• Update Maven libraries

🐛 Bug Fix​

• WEBPDF-2175 Cluster: Race condition when closing documents
• WEBPDF-2171 Word Converter: Fixed various formatting issues in the docx converter
• WEBPDF-2173 Portal: Line breaks in certificate display
• WEBPDF-2164 Server: Duplicate PDF resources are not detected correctly
• WEBPDF-2163 Cluster: Syntax parsing error in YAML configuration files
• WEBPDF-2159 Portal: Display of rotated images (EXIF rotation)
• WEBPDF-2154 Server: Certificate chains with mixed algorithms are not detected
• WEBPDF-2138 Server: JPEG files with corrupted metadata cannot be read
• WEBPDF-2135 Server: Infinite loop when reading the PDF tag structure
• WEBPDF-2123 Portal: Missing DataMatrix options added

🚀 New Feature​

• WEBPDF-2181 Container: Graceful container shutdown with two-phase shutdown
• WEBPDF-2158 Server: Optimizing the performance and memory usage of the image converter
• WEBPDF-2157 Server: Optimizing Image Conversion in the Word Converter
• WEBPDF-2153 Cluster: Automatically renew the MinIO client on certificate changes
• WEBPDF-2152 Cluster: Update Redisson to the 4.x branch
• WEBPDF-2129 SharePoint-Bridge: Configure SharePoint site ID directly and enable pagination
• WEBPDF-2136 Cluster: Replayable DLQ for failed messages in the DLQ
• WEBPDF-2134 Portal: Additional DataMatrix options added
• WEBPDF-2109 Server: Micrometer integration which adds support for Prometheus metrics (🔬 Experimental feature) 🔗
• WEBPDF-2094 Server: Performance optimization of web services and workers

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 11.0.31+11
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.54
• Update Maven libraries

🐛 Bug Fix​

No bug fixes included compared to version 9.0.4

🚀 New Feature​

No new features included compared to version 9.0.4

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 21.0.10+7
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.52
• Update Maven libraries

🐛 Bug Fix​

• WEBPDF-2125 Search for font names without considering upper/lower case during docx conversion
• WEBPDF-2121 Remove explicit UTF-8 encoding specification, as it is the default in OpenJDK 21
• WEBPDF-2119 In MSG Mail with RTF body, RTF syntax remains in the PDF document
• WEBPDF-2105 Portal: Log is constantly retrieved in the background of the admin panel
• WEBPDF-2097 Additional settings for proxy and Non-Proxy Hosts
• WEBPDF-2095 Portal: Web service endpoint toolbox (operation options) 🔗: Backgrounds can no longer be added
• WEBPDF-2092 Web service endpoint toolbox (operation split) 🔗: Tag processing very slow
• WEBPDF-2090 Web service endpoint toolbox (operation extraction) 🔗: Large memory requirements for complex PDF documents
• WEBPDF-2089 Web service endpoint toolbox (operation merge) 🔗: Processing of tags very slow in complex structures
• WEBPDF-2087 Cluster: Refresh tokens are not updated in the cache memory after creation
• WEBPDF-2085 Portal: Invalid namespace structure when cluster definition is performed via the portal
• WEBPDF-2071 Web service endpoint toolbox (operation extraction) 🔗: Parsing the Adobe PieceInfo BackgroundSettings too strictly
• WEBPDF-2122 Fixed various formatting issues in the docx converter and added support for additional docx content.

🚀 New Feature​

• WEBPDF-2094 Optimization of memory consumption and execution speed for large PDF documents
• WEBPDF-2050 Portal: Azure Blob Storage can be set as file storage provider
• WEBPDF-2086 Cluster/Portal: Definition of document and session provider in a dialog
• WEBPDF-1854 Cluster: SMB file storage provider for document storage
• WEBPDF-2075 Cluster: Optimized structure for storing data in the cache server based on keys and namespaces
• WEBPDF-1965 Cluster: Adjust configuration settings via environment variables

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 11.0.30+7
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.52
• Update Maven libraries

🐛 Bug Fix​

No bug fixes included compared to version 9.0.3

🚀 New Feature​

No new features included compared to version 9.0.3

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 21.0.9+10
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.48
• Update Maven libraries

🐛 Bug Fix​

• WEBPDF-2076 Fixed various bugs in "docx" conversion and enhanced support for the format
• WEBPDF-2068 Incorrect position information (incorrect bounding box) when exporting content as words
• WEBPDF-2067 FreeText annotation: Correction of font metrics determination
• WEBPDF-2062 XFDF export from AcroForm with RichText fields aborts
• WEBPDF-2060 HTTP redirect: Retrieval of external resources does not work with certain HTTP headers
• WEBPDF-2052 Exception during shutdown in Chromium engine fixed
• WEBPDF-2051 Missing HTTP response body for error code -10
• WEBPDF-2043 Container startup script does not process SIGTERM to perform a graceful shutdown
• WEBPDF-2048 Fixed HTML conversion abort with error code -160
• WEBPDF-2044 Admin portal: Chromium Bridge test button always active
• WEBPDF-2039 Cluster: Session data is not updated in Redis storage
• WEBPDF-2035 Free text annotation causes "missing dict" error in some PDF readers
• WEBPDF-2034 Portal: Converter dialog always uses Office Bridge when enabled on the server
• WEBPDF-2031 Admin Portal: Users cannot be edited
• WEBPDF-2029 Font cannot be found because the "Font Family" entry is incomplete in the font file
• WEBPDF-2022 Admin Portal: Error message when retrieving logs in debug mode
• WEBPDF-2017 Portal: PDF/A preselection in dialog is empty
• WEBPDF-2016 Portal: Preview loading error for (formatted/structured) text documents
• WEBPDF-2013 Portal: More detailed OAuth error handling
• WEBPDF-2011 Portal: Defective display of loading status indicator

🚀 New Feature​

• WEBPDF-2075 Namespace-based structure for Redis/Valkey for storing data in the cluster
• WEBPDF-2056 Cluster: Valkey as in-memory cache for document and session storage
• WEBPDF-2067 Web service endpoint toolbox (operation annotation) 🔗: FreeText annotation enhanced with additional options
• WEBPDF-2064 Web service endpoint toolbox (operation extraction) 🔗: Word extractor extended with font information
• WEBPDF-2063 Portal: Editing of RichText form fields
• WEBPDF-2061 Web service endpoint toolbox (operation annotation) 🔗: Selective flattening of annotations
• WEBPDF-2054 Support for Debian (13) Trixie
• WEBPDF-2050 Cluster: Azure Blob Storage as file storage provider
• WEBPDF-2049 Graceful shutdown of the server when requests are pending
• WEBPDF-2037 Improvements to PDF/UA markup: Create PDF/UA and WCAG-compliant documents from "docx" format
• WEBPDF-2032 Web service endpoint barcode 🔗: Support for DataMatrix barcodes with Unicode content and GS1
• WEBPDF-2030 Portal: Improved barcode preview
• WEBPDF-2028 More detailed error codes in the cluster file storage provider
• WEBPDF-2027 Extension of Health REST API to include storage provider and cluster status
• WEBPDF-2026 Portal: Display of additional details for annotations
• WEBPDF-2025 Portal: "Flatten" annotation with options
• WEBPDF-2009 Portal: Display portfolio sorting as information
• WEBPDF-2008 Portal: Portfolio sorting adjustable in the portal
• WEBPDF-2004 Portal: Image editor with zoom function
• WEBPDF-2010 Portal: Remember scroll position within a page
• WEBPDF-1574 Portal: New "Freetext" annotation

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 11.0.29+7
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.48
• Update Maven libraries

🐛 Bug Fix​

WEBPDF-2072 Text documents are not converted
WEBPDF-2071 Web service endpoint toolbox (operation transcribe) 🔗: Parsing the Adobe PieceInfo BackgroundSettings too strictly
WEBPDF-2048 HTML conversion terminated with error code -160
WEBPDF-2044 Chromium Bridge test button active even though Chromium Bridge is running

💥 Important changes​

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 21.0.8+9
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.43
• Update Chromium to 138.0.7204.157
• Update Maven libraries
• WEBPDF-1977 File Protocol no longer allowed in web service URLConverter and HTML documents (see note above)

🐛 Bug Fix​

• WEBPDF-2007 Various corrections and improvements to the Word converter (docx)
• WEBPDF-1986 Portal: Image Editor is not available
• WEBPDF-1985 Portal: Session no longer available after closing the tab
• WEBPDF-1982 NPE in Redis listener event on member server (document storage in cluster environment)
• WEBPDF-1968 NoReplace flag in RPM package not set for configuration files
• WEBPDF-1963 Portal: Test function when selecting the S3 provider does not work (cluster environment)
• WEBPDF-1904 Exception if "Producer" string of the metadata contains null bytes

🚀 New Feature​

• WEBPDF-2006 Portal: Double-clicking on the selection frame of objects opens the positioning properties.
• WEBPDF-2003 Portal: Additional selection of pages in PDF view via checkbox
• WEBPDF-2001 Define sorting in the portfolio (web service Toolbox (operation portfolio))
• WEBPDF-1998 Portal: Syntax-Check im Editor für verschiedene Dateiformate (z.B. JSON oder HTML)
• WEBPDF-1996 Portal: Rotation for watermarks can be set directly on the object
• WEBPDF-1993 Portal: Multi-document operations when creating and editing portfolio documents
• WEBPDF-1991 Portal: Enlarge circular and rectangular objects in the aspect ratio while holding down the Shift key
• WEBPDF-1978 Version check of the cluster members for the same main and sub-version
• WEBPDF-1974 Read-only mode for write-protected configuration files in the admin portal
• WEBPDF-1962 Making bucket names configurable for S3 document storage

💥 Important​

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 11.0.28+6
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.43
• Update Chromium to 138.0.7204.157
• Update Maven libraries
• WEBPDF-1977 File Protocol no longer allowed in HTML documents (see note above)

🐛 Bug Fix​

• WEBPDF-1904 Exception if "Producer" string of the metadata contains null bytes
• WEBPDF-1968 NoReplace flag in RPM package not set for configuration files

💥 Important changes​

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 21.0.7+6
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.40
• Update Chromium to 136.0.7103.49
• Update Maven libraries

🐛 Bug Fix​

• WEBPDF-1917 Metadata cannot be read for some Motion Photos
• WEBPDF-1916 Some Motion Photos are not shown in the Portal page
• WEBPDF-1930 Signed emails with ContentType: application/x-pkcs7-mime were not recognized because the MIME subtype x-pkcs7-mime was unknown
• WEBPDF-1940 Problem when merging existing PDF/A-1a documents and reconverting the merged document to PDF/A-1a
• WEBPDF-1944 Problem when using fonts that do not define a Postscript font name
• WEBPDF-1937 Special characters in the image URL of an EML document prevent the image from being downloaded and rendered in the PDF

🚀 New Feature​

• WEBPDF-1919 Allows to set the Windows certificate store as the trusted store via javax.net.ssl.trustStoreType
• WEBPDF-1905 Dark mode for the portal
• WEBPDF-1907 The integrated Word (docx) converter (not the Office Bridge) can create PDF/UA and WCAG-compliant PDF documents (provided the Word document contains appropriate preparations) WEBPDF-1941 The server's temporary folder temp/ is only cleared and not deleted when (re)starting (optimization for container use)

💥 Important changes​

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 11.0.27+6
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.40
• Update Chromium to 136.0.7103.49
• Update Maven libraries

🐛 Bug Fix​

• WEBPDF-1930 Signed emails with ContentType: application/x-pkcs7-mime were not recognized because the MIME subtype x-pkcs7-mime was unknown
• WEBPDF-1942 Defective font display after merging PDF documents
• WEBPDF-1937 Special characters in the image URL of an EML document prevent the image from being downloaded and rendered in the PDF

Below you will find the new features and functions of this release. We hope you enjoy the new version. Any feedback is always welcome.

💥 Important changes​

Upgrade to OpenJDK 21​

The server now uses OpenJDK 21 LTS as the Java Runtime Engine. Therefore, all adjustments/changes in the OpenJDK 21 release notes apply. webPDF has been adapted (optimized) to OpenJDK 21, so that no older OpenJDK versions can be used either.

Supported Linux versions​

The minimum version for Debian is 10 (Buster) and 20.04 for Ubuntu. The minimum version for RHEL and Centos is 8.x. The minimum version for SLES and openSUSE is 15.x. A list of the currently supported versions can be found at https://packages.softvision.de

New document converter for "docx" format​

The current version introduces a new document converter for the "docx" format, which is used as the default converter for the format. This converter is cross-platform and replaces the Office Bridge for the "docx" format.

Local SharePoint support removed​

Support for a local SharePoint installation for converting Office documents has been discontinued and removed. Instead, webPDF now offers support for SharePoint Online as "SharePoint Bridge".

Linux Systemd scripts changed​

Installation location of webpdf.service for Systemd adjusted and settings can be set as environment variables

Auto Queue as default​

By default, the size of the queue ("Auto Queue Mode") is calculated automatically and adjusted to the number of available instances.

SSL removed; TLS as minimum standard​

SSL has been completely removed. It is now mandatory to use TLS.

Metadata structure changed​

The endpoint GET /documents/{documentId}/info 🔗 now returns an object that can hold metadata of various file types. The contained metadata is defined via metadata.metadataType.

{
  "metadata": {
    "metadataType": "archive",
    "files": [
      {
        "lastModifiedDate": 1569840302000,
        "path": "grafik und text.pdf",
        "size": 61183
      }
    ]
  }
}

Admin Portal and Developer Hub​

The Admin Portal of the server and the website webPDF Developer Hub are now only in English.

🚀 New Feature​

Server​

• Migration to OpenJDK 21 LTS
• Health API Endpunkt: Query the status of the server and the web service API
• Support of the Windows certificate stores for TLS and the global certificate store
• Setting the Ciphers and TLS for the TLS Connector
• JVM settings can be set as environment variables under Linux and Systemd
• Automatic definition of the queue size (Auto Queue) according to the number of instances
• Filter für Content Security Policy (CSP)
• HSTS protocol is supported

🔥 Cluster​

• Support and setup of a cluster operation
  Use of multiple webPDF servers for load balancing and failover. Centralized session management and document storage
• Cluster setup and configuration via the admin portal
• Additional status page "Cluster information" if server is running in the cluster

Web services in general​

• Global HTTP options can be overwritten via web service call
• Endpoint PUT /documents/{documentId} to replace an existing document
• Metadata for images (including EXIF data) and archive files (including contained files) with the endpoint GET /documents/{documentId}/info

Web service "OCR"​

• 🔥 Improved performance (up to a factor of 5) and recognition accuracy through update to Tesseract 5.x

Web service "Pdfa"​

• PDF/A engine update for improved conversion of existing PDF documents
• Support for ZUGFeRD 2.3

Web service "Converter"​

• 🔥 New document converter for the "docx" format.
  Convert documents without using Office Bridge, with support for PDF/UA and AcroForm creation
• Update of Outside In to version 8.5.7 (Patch 2)
• SharePoint Online integrated as SharePoint Bridge
  Replacement for the Office Bridge in Linux/container use
• Update of the Chromium engine to version 132
  Central management of Chromium instances with monitoring and automatic restart (via watchdog)

Web service "Signature"​

• Removal of digital signatures with rendering of the visual appearance in the PDF document

Web service "Barcode"​

• Recognition of 2D barcodes "QR" and "DataMatrix" improved
• Automatic search for 2D barcodes on the entire page
• Support of graphic formats as source document

Admin Portal​

📹 Watch a short video to see all the new administration features!

Portal​

📹 Watch a short video to see all the new portal features!

• Direct image editing before conversion 📹
• Edit text files and convert them right away 📹
• Fill in forms directly 📹
• Positioning objects faster 📹
• Set the starting document for a portfolio 📹
• Rulers for images 📹
• Zoom function for multiple formats. 📹
• Full-page search for barcode formats 📹
• View extended image metadata 📹
• Extract archives using a file filter 📹
• Edit text files, preview and convert immediately 📹
• Quick preview of documents 📹
• Support for more preview formats when viewing attachments 📹
• Position objects using a preview 📹
• User specific settings 📹
• New ZUGFeRD versions 📹
• Emojis for annotation comments 📹
• Remove signature and convert visual appearance to PDF 📹

Last update for version 8: Support ended with the release of version 10.

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 11.0.26+4
• Update Tomcat to 9.0.98
• Update Maven libraries

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 11.0.26+4
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.34
• Update Chromium to 132.0.6834.83
• Update Maven libraries

🐛 Bug Fix​

• WEBPDF-1881 EML is not recognized as mail when using MBox format
• WEBPDF-1896 Exception when reading PDF Ink Annotations
• WEBPDF-1902 High virtual memory utilization in the Chromium engine
• WEBPDF-1903 Deactivating debug mode in the portal does not work correctly

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 11.0.25+9
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.31
• Update Maven libraries

🚀 New Feature​

• WEBPDF-1866 Web service endpoint documents/{documentId}/info 🔗: Include signatures without AcroForm field in metadata
• WEBPDF-1878 Web service endpoint convert (operation mail) 🔗: Conversion of MIME mails (EML) with multipart/alternative as wrapper (from iOS-based devices)

🐛 Bug Fix​

• WEBPDF-1865 Web service endpoint signature 🔗: Signature annotations without an AcroForm reference are not recognized and processed as such
• WEBPDF-1868 Web service endpoint toolbox (operation transcribe) 🔗: HTML export aborts with error code -23 if PDF resources are defined incorrectly

• Update OpenJDK to 11.0.25+9
• Update Tomcat to 9.0.96
• Update Maven libraries

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 11.0.24+8
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.26
• Update Chromium to 126.0.6478.126
• Update Outside to 8.5.6 (Patch 8)
• Update PDF/A-Tools to 6.27.2.6
• Update Maven libraries

🐛 Bug Fix​

• WEBPDF-1850 Web service endpoint pdfa (operation convert) 🔗: Problem with "Auto Tagging" during PDF/A conversion if there is an existing tag structure in the PDF
• WEBPDF-1849 Web service endpoint pdfa (operation convert) 🔗: PDF/A conversion (conformance level "a") not possible if ligatures are used
• WEBPDF-1853 Web service endpoint toolbox (operation split) 🔗: OutOfMemory for toolbox splits and documents with many pages
• WEBPDF-1842 Server: Zurücksetzen des "Graphics state" bevor neuer Inhalt in bestehende Dokumente gezeichnet wird WEBPDF-1862 Web service endpoint toolbox (operation options) 🔗: Parse error if header and footer are defined as inline dictionary in the PDF syntax

• Update OpenJDK to 11.0.24+8
• Update Tomcat to 9.0.91
• Update Maven libraries

🔧 Security​

• Update OpenJDK to 11.0.23+9
• Update Tomcat to 10.1.20
• Update Chromium to 124.0.6367.60
• Update Maven libraries

🐛 Bug Fix​

• WEBPDF-1844 Portal: Empty viewer, when switching from text to HTML display
• WEBPDF-1843 Server: PDF with metadata without namespace are not loaded
• WEBPDF-1839 Portal: Page selection for non-PDF documents is limited to 1
• WEBPDF-1824 OpenAPI: Empty node metadata: {} in JSON structure (when retrieving document info) removed if no metadata is available
• WEBPDF-1808 Web service endpoint documents (operation extract) 🔗: Error when extracting files with non-permitted characters in the file name
• WEBPDF-1818 Web service endpoint documents (operation compress) 🔗: Missing verification of access authorizations for REST endpoint compress
• WEBPDF-1812 Server: IllegalStateException when reading AcroForm forms with checkboxes

🚀 New Feature​

• WEBPDF-1823 Web service endpoint Converter 🔗: Reducing image sizes in emails with resizeImages

• Update OpenJDK to 11.0.23+9
• Update Tomcat to 9.0.88
• Update Maven libraries