Changelog: Updates, milestones, roadmap

September 2023

Sep 19, 2023

Features & Upgrades

Adds Word document to PDF conversion! (see DocxToPdfRenderer)
Adds support for LaTeX mathematics in PDF documents (see EnableMathematicalLaTex)
Adds support for cookies when rendering from HTML string
Adds MacOS support for IronPdf async methods
Adds support for transparent signature images
Adds support for IronPdf hosting in Azure App Services (see IronPdf.Server.Azure)
Adds support for using IronPdf on iOS and Android via Azure app service (see IronPdf.Examples repo)
Fixes MacOS bug which would sometimes cause consecutive renders to fail
Fixes bug causing a crash when multiple IronSoftware products are installed
Fixes bug preventing usage of Installation.ChromeGpuMode
Fixes bug preventing running IronPdf within MAUI applications
Fixes miscellaneous bugs when using gRPC service (IronPdf Docker engine)
Fixes memory leak when merging documents
Changes cookies to be specific to each individual render (see ChromePdfRenderOptions.CustomCookies)
Changes default behavior of HTML-to-PDF renders to use separate request context (see IronPdf.Rendering.RequestContexts)
Improves stability of IronPdf Docker engine
Improves compatibility for MacOS
Improves support for single-process mode
Improves path detection when using IronPdf for Python on MacOS
Reduces disk size of IronPdf Docker engine
Reduces time to save large documents (>100MB) by 90% or more

Aug 02, 2023

Features & Upgrades

Fixes 'missing IronPdfInterop.dll' in some cases
Fixes page index bug when using 'ImportPages'
Fixes bug causing program to hang when copying annotations
Adds feature for waiting for HTML elements to load before rendering (see 'WaitFor')
Adds feature for waiting for fonts to load before rendering (see 'WaitFor')
Adds feature for specifying rotation when drawing text
Adds feature for specifying custom color profile when saving as PDFA

Added attempt to automatically install .NET 6.0
Added multiple retries when trying to download native dependencies at runtime
Improved recovery when download becomes corrupted
Added slightly better console output during initialization
Now also building platform specific packages which will be uploaded to our website (these do not require any downloads at runtime)