Secure PDF Changelog

This document provides high-level information about new features, fixes, and functionality changes between minor version releases of Secure PDF. For more details or if you have any questions, please contact support@nsoftware.com.

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[FIX] - An issue was fixed.
[NEW] - New feature or functionality added.
[IMPORTANT] - A change which requires attention.

Version: 24.0.9396
Date: September 22, 2025

• [NEW] Added PDFExplorer component to all editions

Version: 24.0.9390
Date: September 16, 2025

• [FIX] Fixed a C++ error that prevented CertMgr from listing certificates again after HSM insertion

Version: 24.0.9385
Date: September 11, 2025

• [NEW] Added PKCS#11 support to PDFSign in the C++ edition

Version: 24.0.9376
Date: September 2, 2025

• [FIX] Fixed an access violation when adding PDFMedia objects to the Media collection in PDFEdit

Version: 24.0.9350
Date: August 7, 2025

• [FIX] Fixed an issue where Adobe would show signatures in encrypted documents as invalid after Update

Version: 24.0.9348
Date: August 5, 2025

• [FIX] Fixed a .NET issue that prevented the FontName widget property from respecting the FontPaths configuration setting in PDFSign

Version: 24.0.9334
Date: July 22, 2025

• [IMPORTANT] Removed ActiveX/ASP/COM edition
• [NEW] Added PDFEdit component to all editions
• [NEW] Added PDF/A support to PDFSign, PDFVerify, PDFForm, and PDFEdit via EnforcePDFA, PDFALevel, and PDFAPolicy configuration settings
• [NEW] Added AFRelationship configuration setting to PDFSign
• [NEW] Added LoadMedia configuration setting to PDFForm
• [NEW] Added FallbackFont configuration setting to PDFSign and PDFForm
• [NEW] Added DefaultPageWidth and DefaultPageHeight configuration settings to PDFForm
• [FIX] Fixed font issues when adding new fields in PDFForm

Version: 24.0.9250
Date: April 29, 2025

• [IMPORTANT] Renamed RemoteSignature configuration setting to RemoteSignatureMethod in PDFSign
• [NEW] Added PKCS#7 remote signing support to PDFSign
• [NEW] Added support for verifying EdDSA signatures
• [FIX] Improved form field identification for non-standard documents in PDFForm

Version: 24.0.9231
Date: April 10, 2025

• [NEW] Added JavaScript edition
• [NEW] Added PDFForm component to remaining editions
• [NEW] Added remote signing support to PDFSign via RemoteSignature, RemoteSignatureDigest, and RemoteSignatureData configuration settings
• [NEW] Added CreateNew method to PDFForm
• [NEW] Added CompressStreams configuration setting to PDFForm
• [FIX] Fixed an issue where decryption would succeed when supplying a wrong user password
• [FIX] Fixed a timestamping error for TSAs that require a nonce in the request

Version: 24.0.9188
Date: February 26, 2025

• [IMPORTANT] PDFSign and PDFVerify now use zero-based page indices (affects SignatureWidgetPages, GetPageProperty, and WidgetPages)
• [NEW] Added AddBitmap, AddDrawing, Flatten, GetFieldProperty, and SetFieldProperty methods to PDFForm

Version: 24.0.9152
Date: January 21, 2025

• [NEW] Added PDFForm component to .NET and Java editions

Version: 24.0.9133
Date: January 2, 2025

• [NEW] Added C++, macOS, Delphi, C++ Builder, PHP, Python, and ActiveX/ASP/COM editions
• [NEW] Added PKCS#11 support to PDFSign in the .NET edition
• [FIX] Improved tolerance for documents with garbage bytes before the %PDF header
• [FIX] Other minor compatibility improvements
• [FIX] Fixed an issue where signature timestamps were missing when creating legacy Adobe signatures

Version: 24.0.9047
Date: October 8, 2024

• [IMPORTANT] Renamed AddDocumentTimestamp method to AddTimestamp in PDFSign
• [FIX] Improved tolerance for documents with malformed end-of-file (EOF) markers