Changelog

Release history

New features, improvements, and breaking changes for every PDFluent release.

v0.9.0

CurrentApril 2026
  • featurePDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-3b validation and conversion
  • featurePDF/UA-1 accessibility compliance checking
  • featureXFA form support — parse, FormCalc evaluation, flatten to standard PDF
  • featureWASM build target — compile to WebAssembly, run in the browser
  • featureAES-256 encryption with owner/user password and permission flags
  • featureDigital signature creation and validation
  • featureRenderer tested against 20K real-world PDF corpus
  • improvementSSIM visual accuracy improvements across all page types
  • improvementFont extraction reliability improvements

v0.8.0

January 2026
  • featureText extraction with layout preservation
  • featureAcroForm field enumeration and filling
  • featurePDF merger — combine multiple documents
  • featurePDF splitter — extract pages and ranges
  • improvementParser tolerates a wider range of malformed PDFs
  • improvementReduced binary size for CLI builds

v0.7.0

October 2025
  • featureInitial public release
  • featureZero-copy PDF parser (pdf-syntax crate)
  • featurePage-level rendering to PNG and JPEG
  • featureBasic document metadata read and write
  • featurePure Rust — no C or C++ dependencies in the core