2026.04 Release Notes

Release date: 15th April 2026

Next release: 27th May 2026

Announcements

• We have removed some deprecated methods, please see the below migration notes
• We have moved our support site from support.idrsolutions.com to www.idrsolutions.com/docs/
• New and updated tutorials:
  • The PDF Manipulator has some new features (listed below)
• New blog posts:
  • How to convert PDF to AVIF
  • How to flatten layers in a PDF
  • How to convert PDF to ePUB
  • How to add a CMYK image to a PDF
  • How to extract text as JSON from a PDF
  • How to remove unused objects from a PDF
  • How to redact text in the JPedal Viewer
  • How to redact text programmatically

Key features at a glance

• Text redaction with the PDF Manipulator
• Speed improvements and memory usage reduction

Migration notes

1. JPedalSettings.REPLACE_TEXT_COLOR
   • Can be replaced with JPedalSettings.TEXT_COLOR for equivalent behaviour
2. Commands.executeCommand(int ID, Object[] args)
   • Can be replaced with the new enum version Commands.executeCommand(ViewerCommands command, Object[] args) for equivalent behaviour

New Features

• JPED-1126, JPED-1139 Added a text redaction feature to the PDF Manipulator

Enhancements

• JPED-1134 Added a trial watermark for to the PDF Manipulator/Optimizer/Merger
• JPED-1138 Added new File parameters to various different methods
• JDEL-779 Improved the memory usage for WebP
• CORE-4119 Added various decryption and XML security enhancements
• CORE-4137 Improved the speed of pattern shading
• CORE-4188 Added the ability to set the font from graphics state dictionary
• CORE-4189 PdfDecoder now implements AutoCloseable which warns you if you do not call close() as this can cause a build up of temporary files on disk
• CORE-4190 Removed some old deprecated methods (see above for migration notes)

Fixes

• JPED-1132 Fixed a bug where isolating no pages would crash rather than skipping
• JPED-1135 Fixed a bug where Link annotation URLs were not encoded correctly
• JPED-1136 Improved the handling of whitespace in arrays
• JPED-1137 Improved comment handling
• CORE-4125 Improved the handling of CIDFontType2 fonts which have incorrect mapping structures

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