Release iText Core 9.4.0

As always, we’ve made the Core release notes into a showcase PDF document. Not only does it conform to the latest PDF/UA-2 standard for accessible PDF documents, it’s also digitally signed and has source code and resources required to recreate the document yourself embedded. Have fun!

Release date: Nov 13th 2025

For our fourth and final iText Core release of 2025 we’re introducing advanced page resizing functionality for more effective merging and manipulation of PDF documents with varying page sizes. We’ve also been working on extending the new EU eIDAS Trusted Lists feature to support validation against specific signature profiles. In addition, we’ve enhanced our flex layout support within the layout module for use with the pdfHTML add-on.

Advanced Page Resizing

This release introduces advanced page resizing functionality, allowing users to merge and manipulate PDF documents with varying page sizes more effectively. This was based on a customer request who was using similar functionality in iText 5. However, the way iText 5 did this was relatively unsophisticated, and ran into problems with tagged documents and different content types.

This new implementation addresses scenarios such as scaling content between different page formats (A0, A1, US Letter, etc.), maintaining aspect ratios, and handling annotations, patterns, gradients, and form fields during resizing. The result is a more flexible and reliable toolkit for document assembly and transformation, ensuring that content integrity and layout are preserved across diverse PDF workflows.

Signature Profiles Support

This focuses on enhancing digital signature capabilities in iText Core by introducing support for signature profiles. This feature enables an easier way to ensure that digital signing and validation processes meet the regulatory and compliance requirements for specific regions. As a demonstration, we’ve updated the LotlSimpleSignatureValidation sample (Java/.NET) on GitHub to show off the new QualifiedValidator class. This determines if a given certificate/signature meets the regulatory standards to be “qualified”, which is vital for high-trust electronic transactions.

We’ve also made a change to LOTL validation reports to eliminate multiple successful validation messages during the process, along with some general improvements to LOTL caching and validation.

Extending Flex Layout Support

This release significantly improves the flex layout support in the core Layout module. Since this primarily affects pdfHTML, you’ll find more details in the release notes for pdfHTML 6.3.0.

Pull Requests

A big thank you goes to kpldvnpne for suggesting a fix for the PdfOutline.removeOutline function where the parent outline was also removed after removing a child. As noted in the PR, our implementation goes a little further by adding tests, and maintaining the Count value when an outline is removed.

We’d also like to thank IBaltaga for their suggested NotSupportedException if AreaBreak is inside a flex container fix for .NET. After investigating in more detail we decided to implement the fix in a different way, however, an exception will no longer be thrown for AreaBreaks inside flex containers.

Bug Fixes and Miscellaneous

PDF image and color depth handling has been enhanced when extracting images. There are also accessibility and structure improvements in generated/tagged documents, and error messaging and recovery for malformed or edge-case PDFs is improved.

For .NET, we’ve implemented a wrapper for Asn1OutputStream which became available in version 1.0.2 of BC FIPS .NET. This improves cryptographic compatibility for FIPS workflows.

Other Stuff

If you use iText for digital signing, you may be interested in the Digital Signatures Hub which contains a ton of useful resources and examples.

Don’t forget that in addition to the resources on our Knowledge Base, on our GitHub you can find a ton of useful up-to-date samples in the following repos:

Java

• https://github.com/itext/itext-publications-examples-java

• https://github.com/itext/itext-publications-book-java

• https://github.com/itext/itext-publications-signing-examples-java

• https://github.com/itext/itext-publications-signatures-java

• https://github.com/itext/itext-publications-highlevel-java

• https://github.com/itext/itext-publications-jumpstart-java

.NET

• https://github.com/itext/itext-publications-samples-dotnet

If you want to create ZUGFeRD/Factur-X-e-invoices with iText Core, we have both Java and .NET code samples available targeting the current ZUGFeRD/Factur-X specification. They demonstrate how to embed the XML invoice data and add the metadata required for conformance. Read this article to learn more about ZUGFeRD/Factur-X, and using these code samples to create EN 16931-compatible e-invoices.

Bear in mind that our master branch contains samples for the current stable release, while the default develop branch is for the bleeding edge commits towards the next release.

Also, don’t forget to check out the release-related examples below, as well as the updated Core add-ons in the iText Suite we’ve released this time:

iText Suite 9.4 Releases

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Deprecation of Older iText Versions

We're taking this opportunity to announce End of Life dates for deprecated iText versions. EOL for iText 7.1 was April 2025, and iText 7.2 was October 2025. As for iText 8.0, this will reach EOL in October 2026.

EOL for these versions means they will transition to maintenance mode, and only receive security patches. However, just as with iText 5 we will continue to provide support for our customers. Even though iText 5 has been in maintenance mode since 2016, we regularly release new versions to address CVEs and other security-related bugfixes. See CVEs or the iText 5-specific CVEs page for more information.

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