We are pleased to announce the next major version of iText 7; iText 7.2.0.
The most important change in this release of iText 7 is the new Unified License Mechanism, where we can have independent licenses for iText 7 Core, iText 7 add-ons and other products, send statistics to the server, allow users to easily check used volume, and more. As you might guess from the name, the Unified License Mechanism affects the entire iText 7 Suite, so please also check out the iText add-ons which have received updates along with this release.
As this is a major release, please note that we have removed deprecated and redundant methods from the API. This will allow us to better maintain the code and more easily add new functionality in the future.
As a next step for wider SVG support in future releases, we have upgraded to a newer version of the jsoup HTML parser, which iText 7 uses for SVG processing. This version of jsoup (1.14.1), brings a number of security and stability fixes, in addition to its improved SVG support. Probably the most immediate expected improvement resulting from this upgrade is that SVG tags will now be correctly processed in a case-sensitive manner, as per the specification.
Separately, it should be noted that this release contains a security bug fix for a vulnerability that allowed the use of GhostScript in an unpredictable manner.
As for the rest of the changes, 7.2 brings a number of bugfixes, plus some significant improvements to the codebase. Some of these may not yet be visible but will have an important effect on the further development of the iText 7 Suite, its security, and performance.
Breaking Changes
- Removed deprecated methods from API
New Features
- Unified License Mechanism
- Introduce interface of typography logic and stub implementation at the layout level
Improvements
- Case insensitive SVG tags
- Jsoup 1.14.1
- Throw specific errors when Outline Dictionary breaks PDF specs rules
Bugs
- Streams remain open in case of exception in PdfDocument/PdfReader constructors
- PdfPageFormCopier. multiple widget source field can`t be added to AcroForm when there is a name conflict.
- Infinity loop in ParagraphRenderer
- Prevent empty producer line logic
- No list symbol indention for "Right to left" text
- Layout: Cell with big rowspan causes infinite loop