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2026
Update the Go API and configuration model, with cancellation, progress reporting and safer automation.
Strengthen PDF validation, clarify signature evidence, fix PDF processing issues and address six security advisories.
Reduce the Go module download size.
See the upgrade guide for required API and configuration changes,
and the release notes for details.
Fix #1407, #1444, #1449, #1457, #1460, #1461, #1465-#1467, #1470, #1472-#1474, #1477, #1479, #1484,
#1485, #1487.
Improve large-corpus validation diagnostics by streaming per-file failures, reporting a compact summary, and adding
validate --progress for quiet runs.
Harden malformed PDF reading, validation, optimization, encryption handling, and signature diagnostics.
Add automatic CJK wrapping for text watermarks.
Fix #1427, #1459.
Harden API and CLI error handling.
Harden signature, timestamp, PKCS#7, certificate-path, and revocation processing.
Eliminate dependencies by using standard-library error handling and internal LZW and PKCS#7
implementations.
Fix #415, #866, #990, #1051, #1088, #1091, #1101, #1123, #1127, #1161, #1265, #1274, #1279, #1282, #1289,
#1302, #1311, #1325, #1326, #1340, #1383, #1385, #1387, #1403, #1404, #1417, #1419, #1431, #1437-#1440,
#1448. Add regression coverage for #399, #401, #933, #1059, and #1271.
CLI: Add stdin/stdout support and --force.
Refactor command plumbing and parameter handling.
Harden stream parsing, filter decoding, file path handling, and parser limits.
Reduce default binary size by moving bundled EUTL trust-list certificates behind the pdfcpu_eutl build tag.
Fix #513, #801, #1291, #1296, #1316, #1317, #1327, #1359, #1364, #1373, #1375, #1393, #1394, #1396, #1402, #1410, #1411.
Fix #1319, #1322, #1357, #1381, #1388, #1389
Migrate cli to cobra.
Fix #399, #642, #1055, #1201, #1211, #1215, #1229, #1231, #1255, #1261, #1263, #1267, #1268, #1276, #1278, #1280, #1285, #1292, #1297-#1299, #1307, #1329-#1331, #1334, #1341, #1345, #1353, #1382
2025
Fix #846, #1097, #1112, #1156, #1166, #1173, #1176, #1177, #1183, #1185, #1187, #1188, #1189, #1193-#1195, #1202, #1203, #1216, #1226, #1230, #1231, #1235
Add cert inspect command.
Fix #1056, #1085, #1107, #1113, #1117-#1119, #1142, #1149, #1152, #1163, #1165, #1168, #1171
Add signature & cert commands.
Fix #888, #972, #973, #984, #985, #987, #988, #991, #999, #1001, #1007, #1008, #1010, #1013, #1015-#1017, #1019, #1021, #1025, #1027, #1029, #1034, #1036, #1041, #1047, #1049, #1058, #1064, #1065, #1066, #1067, #1072, #1073, #1076, #1077, #1080, #1081, #1089, #1090, #1098, #1099, #1100, #1111, #1114, #1116
2024
Fix config file handling
Add images list, extract, update cmds.
Add config list, reset cmds.
Add offline flag.
Fix #455, #859, #868, #897, #935, #940, #941, #947, #948, #953, #951, #953, #955, #961, #965
Improve CJK, annotation support.
Fix #628, #687, #767, #819, #830, #862, #867, #871, #881, #884-#887, #890, #891, #895, #898, #903, #907, #908, #910-#912, #914, #915, #918, #921, #924, #926, #930-#932
PDF 2.0 encryption, parser speedup, booklet enhancements.
Fix #821, #823, #826, #828, #832, #834, #835, #838, #839, #841, #844, #849, #851, #852, #855
Add zoom command, basic PDF 2.0 updating.
Fix #628, #724, #756, #758-#760, #765-#766, #769-#774, #780, #783-#784, #786-#787, #793-#796, #798, #802, #805-#811, #813-815, #818
2023
Add pagelayout, pagemode, viewerpref cmds, basic PDF 2.0 validation.
Fix #373, #472, #473, #635, #665, #689, #701, #705, #706, #708, #710, #711, #713, #716, #717, #722, #723, #727, #731-733, #734, #736-740, #742,747
Add bookmarks command.
Fix #506, #604, #621, #657, #659, #660, #663, #664, #666, #667, #669, #671
Bookmark support for merging.
Fix #606, #608, #617, #618, #622, #623, #624, #626, #627, #630-#632, #635-#637, #644, #649, #650, #654
Add cut, ndown, poster commands
Add form, resize commands
2021
Fix #396, add config command
Fix #398
Add create command.
Fix 335, #349, #353, #354, #356, #358, #362, #366, #371, #380, #381, #386, #387, #394, #388
Add annotations, images commands.
Fix #300, #302, #323, #324, #329, #331-336, #338, #341-343, #347, #350
Add right to left stamping
Support webp, RTL Unicode Text.
Fix #271, #273, #285, #287, #293-#299, #301, #303, #305, #307, #311, #313, #316, #319
Add booklet cmd.
Fix #276, #279, #280, #285, #288, #290, #291
2020
Add boxes, crop commands.
Fix #210, #216, #236, #238, #241, #244, #245, #250, #252, #256, #258, #259, #262, #264, #265, #268
Add CJKV font support.
Fix #233
Fix #218, #220-#224, #231,#232. Add config dir & file
Fix #145, #207, #208, #213, #215
Fix #100,#102,#177,#180,#187. Fix #191-197, #199-202
Fix #174
Fix #192
stamps: Add hAlign, margins, border.
Fix #157,#170,#173,#175,#181-184,#188
Support multi-stamping.
Add keywords, properties commands.
Add collect, portfolio commands.
Fix #112,#140,#143,#144,#146,#148,#152
2019
TrueType support.
Fix #126,133,137,138
Fix #113,#114,#117,#119,#121,#123,#130
Fix #101, #103, #107-#109
Fix #100, #104. Use x/image/ccitt.
Transfer repo to org
Fix #95-#97
Fix #94
Fix #92, #93
Redesign API, info cmd.
Fix #87,#89-#91
Fix #88
Add AES-256 encryption
Fix #82, #86 repairs corrupt xref sections.
Fix #85
Fix #80, #81
Fix #77
Fix #75, #76
Fix #74
Support multiline watermarks.
fix #27, #61, #63
Fix #73
Fix #71, #72
Insert & Remove Pages, go mod support.
Fix #69: Correct name parsing.
Cleanup encryption.
Fix stamp transform calc.
Fix #64: locating lastxref.
Add N-Up, Grid commands.
Fix #51, #58.
2018
Add Import and Rotate commands.
Add JPEG support.
Fix #52,#53,#54,#56.
Add ReadSeeker support.
Fix #5,#39,#44.
TIFF: Add support for CCITT decoding.
CCITT fax decoding.
Fix #38, #40, #41.
Add Stamp cmd, fork x/image/tiff.
Extract: Write Flate as PNG.
Fix #25.
Add Runlength filter support.
Fork compress/lzw, fix #21-#23.
Add LZWDecode filter support.
Add name tree caching.
Fix #18.
Redesign extraction API.
Fix #7.
Introduce PDFObject interface.
Add logging interface.
Merge PR #15.
Add List/Add permissions command.
Add Encrypt/Decrypt command.
2017
Fix object freelist management.
Add Attachments command. Fix #9.
Fix #11.
Add examples.
Fix #10.