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Release Notes

Release Notes pertain to all deployment types of the pdfRest API Toolkit, including Cloud and Container, though all features noted may not be available in all products.

2.56.4 - September 24, 2026

  • Improvements to ZUGFeRD invoice PDF processing and clarity of error handling.

2.56.0 - September 17, 2026

  • ZUGFeRD PDF API Tool: Added new /zugferd-pdf and /validated-zugferd endpoints.
  • Container API: Added dedicated OpenAPI specification file for self-hosted Container deployments.
  • OpenAPI Specification: Added new API endpoints /pdfrest-openapi.yaml and /pdfrest-openapi.json.
  • Restored missing fonts that were incorrectly dropped during a prior update.

2.55.0 - September 9, 2026

  • Updates for PDF to Office document conversion.
  • Patch to supply input id values for uploaded .joboptions files.
  • Convert PDF Colors: Added control of color-mapping strategy with rendering_intent parameter
  • Container API: Standardized audit event structure in logging.

2.54.1 - August 21, 2026

  • Convert to PDF: Improvements to .eps document handling.
  • Convert to PDF: Improvements to error handling and output responses.

2.54.0 - August 20, 2026

  • PDF to PostScript API Tool: Added new /postscript endpoint.
  • Convert to PDF: Added support for custom .joboptions files in PostScript to PDF conversion.
  • Container API: Added configurable log sanitization
  • Many improvements to OpenAPI specification to better support API Reference Guides.

2.53.2 - August 13, 2026

  • Add to PDF: Improvement to table insertions.
  • Improvements to OpenAPI specification.

2.53.0 - August 10, 2026

  • Add to PDF: Added support for page ranges

2.52.0 - August 7th, 2026

  • Add to PDF: New support for pre-uploaded image id values in /pdf-with-added-tables
  • Creation of new OpenAPI 3.1.1 spec file for pdfRest API
  • Convert to PDF: New support for structured text (including Markdown, TXT, JSON, XML, and CSV) to PDF on the /pdf endpoint

2.51.0 - July 28th, 2026

  • Add to PDF: New /pdf-with-added-tables endpoint for adding structured tables to PDFs
  • Include requestID on all Morgan logs for better call handling and tracing in logs
  • Set LOG_TYPE=json as the default deployment setting

2.50.0 - July 23rd, 2026

  • Add to PDF: Many new features including:
    • Add optional tagging parameters for added text and images
    • Add image sizing options for /pdf-with-added-image
    • New /pdf-with-added-shapes endpoint for drawing line and rectangle shapes
    • Support optional tagging metadata for newly added semantic shape content
    • Treat decorative shapes as artifacts by default

2.49.1 - July 17th, 2026

  • Added additional event logging and log types

2.49.0 - July 10th, 2026

  • Improvements to HTTP request INFO logging structure
  • Initial OpenVEX file offering for Enterprise container releases
  • Software dependency and security updates

2.48.2 - June 24, 2026

  • Resolved network certificate issue for self-hosted Container deployments of image tags < 2.48.2 from Docker Hub

2.47.8 - June 3, 2026

  • Improved validation of header parameters
  • Updated free trial redaction logic for Import/Export Form Data to improve user experience
  • Query PDF: Added queries: color_profiles to /pdf-info to support identifying all color profiles used in a document

2.47.6 - May 22, 2026

  • OCR PDF: Updated the languages parameter of /pdf-with-ocr-text to support ISO 639-2 Alpha-3 language codes. Refer to the documentation for supported languages
  • General fixes and improvements

2.47.4 - May 13, 2026

  • Software dependency and security updates
  • Improved parameter validation and informational responses for the /pdf endpoint
  • Container API: Updated Docker Hub distribution logic to properly apply :latest tag to most current release

2.47.1 - May 6, 2026

  • Added include-file-info Header parameter to return detailed information with id responses. Enable with true, defaults to false

2.47.0 - May 4, 2026

  • Improved request validation across API tools
  • Convert to PDF: Improved error detection when converting Word documents
  • Fixed an issue that could cause translation requests using PDF inputs to fail

2.46.6 - April 10, 2026

  • General fixes and improvements

2.46.4 - April 10, 2026

  • Add Text: Fixed request validation to accept the all page keyword and require content in text_objects

2.46.3 - April 9, 2026

  • Add Text to PDF: Added request validation
  • Improved error responses to include more detailed validation information, including submitted values for invalid fields
  • Added limits for request timeout values
  • HTML to PDF: General conversion improvements

2.46.2 - March 24, 2026

  • Added a new API route to allow setting TDM reservation on PDF files
  • Improved request validation for Forms-related tools and the ZIP tool
  • Security updates to address CVEs

2.45.0 - February 11, 2026

  • Convert to PDF: Improved support for image, PostScript, Excel, and PowerPoint inputs
  • PDF Info: Updates and expanded functionality
  • Added an enterprise-ready container option for enterprise deployments

2.44.0 - January 9, 2026

  • Flatten Forms API: Added as_printed parameter for flattening XFA forms
  • Redact PDF: Output quality improvement and bugfix

2.43.0 - December 19, 2025

  • Updated endpoints to include inputId in responses that previous included just warning: messages

2.42.0 - December 17, 2025

  • Various bugfixes for Compress PDF, Convert to PDF, Convert to Word/Excel/Powerpoint, Convert to PDF/A
  • Improvements in color profile logic
  • Updates to dependencies to address CVEs

2.41.0 - November 21, 2025

  • Added the new Create Blank PDF API Tool, endpoint is /blank-pdf
  • Improved logic and applied bugfixes related to cleaning up temp files in ephemeral storage
  • Increased free Trial License keys to receive more demo calls with a longer expiration

2.38.1 - November 5, 2025

  • Bugfixes for API Polling calls to /request-status (Cloud only feature)

2.38.0 - November 4, 2025

  • Improved Docker build logic to reduce image size
  • Improvements to quality when converting Word and .EML files to PDFs

2.37.1 - October 24, 2025

  • Initial release to Docker Hub
  • Improved error handling for Translate PDF, Summarize PDF, and PDF to Markdown APIs
  • Security update to address CVE

2.36.0 - Oct 17, 2025

  • Markdown API: Return warning: message if no text content detected in input
  • Various improvements in error handling
  • Removed pm2 dependency

2.35.0 - October 8, 2025

  • Translate PDF API: Released /translate-pdf-text endpoint.
  • Extract Text API: Added pages parameter
  • Summarize PDF API: Plaintext bugfix for /summarized-pdf-text
  • Reduced Docker container image size

2.33.0 - October 2, 2025

  • Summarize PDF: Added support for .md and .txt files alongside other improvements
  • Extract Text API: Updates and improvements
  • Delete API: Bugfixes and error handling improvements

2.31.0 - September 18, 2025

  • Summarize PDF API: Released /summarized-pdf-text endpoint
  • Updated backend services powering various Cloud API endpoints

2.29.1 - August 20, 2025

  • Reduced Container file size and build improvements
  • Database query updates improve request latency in Cloud API
  • Redact PDF: Added type checks of type and value

2.28.2 - August 7, 2025

  • Resource API: Added file lifecycle information to GET /resource calls using ?format=info
  • Watermark PDF API: Added ability to place watermarks behind page content
  • Delete Files API: Updated error handling for /delete endpoint

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements for pdfRest API products.