December 8th, 2025 Release

The Xceed team is excited to announce great updates across our .NET developer tools, designed to help you build faster, more robust, and visually stunning applications—whether you’re handling document automation, data visualization, or secure file transfers. Here’s what’s new in the Xceed ecosystem

 

Xceed PDF Library for .NET 1.0 (build 5.2.25608.6677)

      • Create new PDF documents from scratch.

      • Modify existing PDF documents & save them under a new name.

      • Extract information & elements from existing PDF documents.

      • Add form fields to create interactive PDF forms

      • Add digital signature fields to PDF documents.

      • Add attachments to any PDF document.

      • And much more!

    Xceed Words for .NET 5.2 (build 5.2.25608.6677)

      • A new class, called Comment, allows to adjust various properties related to a Comment, such as its content, who added it & at what time, as well as if it has received any reactions or replies.

      • A new class, called Person, allows to determine various properties that will define the user that created, added a reply or reacted to a Comment.

      • A new class, called Reaction, allows to determine various properties that define how a user reacted to a Comment.

      • A new class, called WaterfallChart, can now be used to add Waterfall Charts into a Document.

      • A new class, called BoxWhiskerChart, can now be used to add Box Whisker Charts into a Document.

      • In CheckBox, a new property, named Title, can now be used to get or set the CheckBox’s title.

      • In CheckBox, a new property, named Tag, can now be used to get or set the tag’s value.

      • In Document, a new method, called AddComment, allows to add a Comment in the Document.

      • In Comment, a new method, called AddReply, can now be used to attach a reply to a specific Comment.

      • In Comment, a new method, called Delete, can now be used to delete a Comment attached to a specific Paragraph.

      • In Document, a new method, called SaveToTxt, can now be used to save a Document as a .txt file.

      • In Document, the ReplaceTextWithObject( ObjectReplaceTextOptions) method can now be used to replace the targeted text with a Checkbox.

      • In Document, it is now possible to insert or replace content with HTML without inserting said HTML’s metadata (Header) elements.

      • In DocX, the Load method can now be used to load .txt files.

      • In Paragraph, a new method, called InsertComment, allows to determine where a Comment will be added in the Document.

      • In Paragraph, a new method, called InsertCheckbox, can now be used to insert a Checkbox at a specific place in a Paragraph.

      • Documents can now accept images in the .SVG format.

      • All visual layout elements, including cell spacing, padding, borders, background, vertical alignment, and structural layout attributes, are now supported when inserting an HTML table into a Document.

      • Shorthand CSS attributes, such as margin, padding, border, font, text-decoration, list-style, background and outline, are now fully supported when importing HTML into a Document.

      • In Document, processing consecutive Paragraphs when some of them are empty will no longer trigger an “Index was out of range” exception & will now respect the Paragraph’s spacing and flow correctly.

      • In Document, replacing text with HTML will no longer create a re-entry issue.

      • In RichTextBox , special characters & symbols (like Ø) will now be rendered correctly.
      • In the HTML to Word conversion process, an error that caused the first line of content to be duplicated when a specific mix of paragraph and break tags (<p> and <br />) was encountered in the HTML content has been fixed
      • In the HTML to Word conversion process, tables that have a complex structure are now correctly parsed, thus making the applied visual styles render correctly too.
      • In the HTML to Word conversion process, bold formatting is now properly rendered in the final Document when said formatting is applied to text within an HTML table
      • In the HTML to Word conversion process, URLs will now be displayed correctly when hyperlink tags are parsed.
      • In the HTML to Word conversion process, lists will now render with the proper numbering & list levels configuration.
      • Border-related properties like border-top, border-bottom, border-left, border-right, border-width, border-style & border-color are now interpreted correctly when importing HTML tables.
      • The “System.ArgumentException (Type provided must be an Enum. (Parameter ‘TEnum’))” will no longer occur when parsing HTML content under the .NET 8 framework.
      • Using the InsertContent method to insert HTML content in a Document will now properly maintain the Paragraphs’ indentation.
      • An IndexOutOfRange exception will no longer be thrown when a string located at the end of a Paragraph is replaced with HTML.
      • The shorthand “Font” attribute is now handled correctly when HTML content is inserted into a Document.
      • Inline styles such as background-color & padding applied directly on <p> elements are now correctly parsed & rendered when HTML is inserted in the Document.
      • Converting a Document to PDF when said Document contains tables extending on multiple pages will no longer trigger a System.StackOverflowException.
      • The alignment and spacing issues that were happening when converting a Document to PDF have been fixed.
      • A “Parameter is not valid” ArgumentException will no longer be thrown when converting a Document containing external fonts to PDF.
      • Hyperlinks will no longer be split into multiple lines when converting a Document to PDF.
      • Content will no longer disappear when converting a Document to PDF.

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    Xceed SFTP for NET 7.3 (build 7.3.25608.6677)

      • Support has been added for ssh-ed25519 and ssh-ed448 private key algorithms, which means that loading PuTTY private key files using EdDSA keys is now enabled (note that file must use version 2 of the file format).

      • The bug causing curve25519-sha256 and curve448-sha512 key exchange to fail randomly has been fixed.

    Xceed FTP for NET 7.3 (build 7.3.25608.6677)

      • Version sync with other libraries.

    Xceed Zip for NET 7.3 (build 7.3.25608.6677)

      • FluentAssertions has been used to add the initial assertions for Xceed.FileSystem and Xceed.Zip classes.

    Xceed Realtime Zip for NET 7.3 (build 7.3.25608.6677)

      • Version sync with other libraries.

    Xceed Workbooks for NET 3.0 (build 5.2.25608.6677)

      • Version sync with other libraries.

    PDF Library for .Net is now out! Bundle it with Words for .Net for only 100$ for a limited time at checkout