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GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET V26.7Major versionJul 21, 2026
Features
Added the ability to specify and preserve OOXML compliance when saving word processing documents.
Expanded spreadsheet format support for ODS, OTS, XLSB, and TAB files, including correct format detection and saving in the original spreadsheet format.
Improved handling of text-only spreadsheet CSV format: draw-box (colored rectangle) text redactions are skipped for these formats because they do not support image-style replacements.
Fixes
Addressed an issue where a plain text document could be incorrectly saved as an XLSX/ZIP package instead of remaining a text file.
GroupDocs.Redaction for Java V26.7Major versionJul 20, 2026
Features
You can now specify file type when opening a document (stream or file) via LoadOptions(FileType).
Recognize new formats: Slides (POTX/POTM/OTP) and Words (OTT) have been added to extension filters.
HTML/Markdown is now processed via Aspose.Words instead of Aspose.HTML (HTML as text, Markdown as Word).
Added StreamHelper and StringProcessingResult; removed AsposeHtmlStreamAdapter.
Added the ImagesDocument getProperty() helper (declared-only lookup with fallback).
Code Quality: Simplified getSaveOptions(), made getProperty() static.
Improved Images EXIF processing: Added additional EXIF properties and you can now skip properties that fail reflection.
Fixes
Fixed Aspose.Imaging issues: EXIF tag list cleanup, DICOM save options, multipage image save.
WordsEmbeddedImageAccessor.readImage: load image without disposing the source stream early.
Migrated .gitlab-ci.yml from cmd/batch to PowerShell (runner now uses PowerShell executor).
GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET V26.6Major versionJun 30, 2026
Features
Implemented the ability to specify document format explicitly when redacting a file or stream. Set LoadOptions.FileType to a supported FileType constant (for example, FileType.DOCX or FileType.PDF) to provide proper file format. This is especially useful for streams without a file name or when the file extension does not match the actual content.
Added GroupDocs.Readaction types. The GroupDocs.Redaction.Options.Drawing namespace contains Color, Point, Size, Rectangle, Font, FontStyle types that are independent of System.Drawing and may be used to increase cross-platform compatibility.
GroupDocs.Redaction for Python via .NET V26.6Major versionJun 12, 2026
Features
Added the full redaction capabilities of the underlying .NET library to Python, shipped as a self-contained wheel on PyPI.
Text redaction - Replace or hide text matched by an exact phrase (case-insensitive or case-sensitive, including right-to-left scripts) or a regular expression. Use a replacement string or draw a filled color box over the match.
Metadata redaction - Erase metadata wholesale or by filter, or rewrite values that match a pattern.
Image-area and annotation redaction - Black out a fixed rectangle on a page, rewrite or delete annotations, and clean embedded image metadata.
Page removal - Remove pages or page ranges from the start or end of a document.
Rasterization to PDF - By default, save() rasterizes the redacted document to a PDF and appends a _Redacted suffix so the underlying data cannot be recovered. Rasterization supports anti-extraction effects (noise, tilt, border, grayscale) and adjustable PDF/A compliance. Pass SaveOptions(rasterize_to_pdf=False) to keep the original format instead.
Reusable redaction policies - Describe a set of redactions as a RedactionPolicy, built in memory or loaded from an XML file, and apply it across many documents in a single call.
Pythonic, AI-friendly API - The entire .NET API is exposed through Python-native naming: classes use PascalCase, methods and properties use snake_case (auto-mapped to the underlying .NET PascalCase), and enum values use UPPER_SNAKE_CASE. The wheel bundles an AGENTS.md reference (discovered at groupdocs/redaction/AGENTS.md) for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, and the documentation is available in an LLM-optimized form and via the GroupDocs MCP server.
GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET V26.5Major versionMay 13, 2026
Features
Implemented TFM-Split NuGet Packaging for GroupDocs.Redaction.
Added Microsoft .NET 8.0 target framework support.
Added Microsoft .NET 10.0 target framework support.
Optimized HTML page processing.
GroupDocs.Redaction Product Family UpdateMay 1, 2026