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• Version 2026 Now Available - The latest version includes new components and across-the-board enhancements for every toolkit.
• Post-Quantum Cryptography - Version 2026 brings Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) support across all toolkits. All TLS-enabled components now support ML-KEM for TLS 1.3. In addition, SSH-enabled components have been updated to support ML-KEM key exchange algorithms. IPWorks PGP fully supports ML-DSA keys and ML-KEM algorithms. IPWorks Encrypt includes new MLDSA and MLKEM components for direct access to PQC functionality.
• Go and Rust Editions - Go and Rust editions are now available for most products.
• Security Defaults and Performance - Every toolkit has been updated with stronger security defaults and performance improvements. Changes include AES-256 as the default AS2 encryption algorithm, PKCS#1 disallowed by default in FIPS mode, and older, weaker TLS and SSH mechanisms switched off in SecureBlackbox.
• SecureBlackbox Updates - SecureBlackbox 2026 brings full post-quantum support across the board: transport components now support ML-KEM key exchange, including hybrid variants based on NIST and Edwards curves, and ML-DSA signatures are integrated throughout the PKI and AdES stack. Digital signature support also gains Trusted Lists v6 (the European standard), Delta CRLs for broader PKI coverage and faster chain validation, and the CSC v2 protocol for smoother third-party interoperability. Transport components add OpenSSH certificate support for trust-based client and server authentication, plus HTTP Server-Sent Events (SSE) support for easier integration with real-time architectures.
• IPWorks LLM [Beta] - IPWorks LLM is a new component library for integrating large language model APIs into your applications. Components for the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini APIs cover chat, streaming, tool calling, embeddings, token counting, and model listing. LLMClient also supports services that implement any of these APIs, including Ollama, vLLM, DeepSeek, Groq, and Azure OpenAI. IPWorks LLM also supports C2PA Content Credentials. The C2PASigner component embeds a signed manifest in JPEG, PNG, and PDF files that records who produced the asset, which tool produced it, and whether generative AI was involved. The C2PAVerifier component reads those manifests and reports the result of each validation check.
• IPWorks BLE - IPWorks BLE now includes the BLEServer component for hosting GATT servers in your application. BLEClient connects to the services exposed by other devices. BLEServer works in the other direction: your application defines its own services, characteristics, and descriptors, advertises them, and handles read, write, and subscribe requests from connected BLE clients. With both components, a single application can act as a central, a peripheral, or both. The BLEServer Getting Started Guide walks through adding services, advertising, and responding to client requests.
• IPWorks Zip - IPWorks Zip adds the new Zstd and Lz4 components for Zstandard (RFC 8878) and LZ4 compression. Unlike the archive components, they have no file names or archive headers. They work directly on blocks of data and streams, which suits in-memory data and network transfer. Lz4 favors speed over compression ratio. Zstd gives a better ratio for a similar amount of effort and is a good default. Both produce standard output that works with other implementations, including the zstd and lz4 command-line tools.
• Cloud SSO - Cloud SSO now includes the SCIMWeb and SCIMDesktop components for automated user provisioning. SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) lets identity providers like Microsoft Entra ID and Okta create, update, and deactivate users and groups in your application as changes are made in the directory. The components implement the service provider side of SCIM 2.0. SCIMWeb plugs into an existing web application, and SCIMDesktop hosts its own HTTP server for desktop applications and background services. The SCIM Getting Started Guide covers setup, authentication, and registering your application with an identity provider. SAMLWeb and SAMLDesktop now also support encrypted assertions. Set the new ServiceProviderEncryptingCert property, and the components decrypt the assertion in the identity provider's SAML response before parsing it.

Additional Updates

• IPWorks Auth: New WebAuthn component for adding passwordless sign-in with Windows Hello and hardware security keys to your web application.
• IPWorks Encrypt: New MLKEM, MLDSA, CMAC, and HMAC components.
• IPWorks PGP: GnuPG v5 key format support for interoperability with GnuPG.
• IPWorks SSH: SSH server components now support multiple host keys.
• IPWorks Zip: Zip component now supports batching operations.
• IPWorks VoIP: Busy Lamp Field (BLF) support, and real-time call audio streaming for AI voice agents, with dynamic recording enabled by default.
• Secure PDF: Improvements in remote signing, PDF/A, and ZUGFeRD support, as well as font management and compatibility.
• Cloud Storage: New GetUploadStatus method recovers interrupted uploads from the server, and CloudFiles now supports resumable uploads.
• Cloud Storage: Dropbox Business support for team folders and namespaces.
• Cloud Storage: AWS IAM Identity Center (SSO) authentication for Amazon S3, and the new RetrieveCurrentUser method in OneDrive and SharePoint to identify the account behind an access token.
• Cloud Storage: Supabase support, Azure Blob versioning, bulk delete for S3-compatible storage, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob, and OAuth support in the CloudFiles component.
• Cloud Mail: Microsoft 365 shared mailbox support.
• Cloud Keys: Azure Key Vault certificate support.
• All JavaScript Editions have been updated with support for TypeScript 7.

• New Version 2026 Betas Available for Every Product - Version 2026 is the next major version for all shipping products and is now available in beta. This release brings across-the-board enhancements including updated security defaults, increased performance, and a streamlined developer experience.
• Post-Quantum Cryptography - This release includes updated support for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) across all toolkits. All TLS-enabled components now support ML-KEM for TLS 1.3. In addition, SSH-enabled components have been updated to support ML-KEM key exchange algorithms. IPWorks PGP fully supports ML-DSA keys and ML-KEM algorithms. IPWorks Encrypt includes new MLDSA and MLKEM components for direct access to PQC functionality.
• Secure PDF and PDF SDK - Secure PDF handles PDF signing, verification, encryption, and decryption through a simple API, supporting all modern PAdES and PDF security standards. The latest version adds support for remote signing. PDF SDK gives you full control over PDF creation and editing: modify text content, manage fillable form fields, and merge or split documents. Create fully compliant ZUGFeRD/Factur-X invoices with embedded, machine-readable XML data, or drop down to individual PDF objects for low-level debugging and fine-grained modifications.
• Go and Rust Editions - Go and Rust editions are now available across the entire product line. Developers building in these languages can now access the full range of components using native APIs, eliminating the need for third-party wrappers.
• SecureBlackbox Updates - SecureBlackbox 2026 brings full post-quantum support across the board: transport components now support ML-KEM key exchange, including hybrid variants based on NIST and Edwards curves, and ML-DSA signatures are integrated throughout the PKI and AdES stack. Digital signature support also gains Trusted Lists v6 (the European standard), Delta CRLs for broader PKI coverage and faster chain validation, and the CSC v2 protocol for smoother third-party interoperability. Transport components add long-awaited OpenSSH certificate support for trust-based client and server authentication, plus HTTP Server-Sent Events (SSE) support for easier integration with real-time architectures.
• Additional updates and enhancements in this release include:
  • IPWorks EDI: AS2 updated to align with latest security defaults, including stronger default encryption.
  • IPWorks BLE: New BLEServer component for direct device connections.
  • IPWorks Encrypt: New ML-KEM, ML-DSA, AES-CMAC and HMAC components.
  • IPWorks Auth: New WebAuthn component provides a simple way to implement a WebAuthn Relying Party server.
  • IPWorks Zip: Zip component now supports batching operations.
  • IPWorks VoIP: Busy Lamp Field (BLF) support added, and dynamic recording enabled by default to streamline AI voice agent integrations.
  • IPWorks SSH: SSH server components now support multiple host keys.

• MCP SDK - MCP SDK is now shipping. This component library improves development of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that connect LLMs to your data, code, and context. With the latest release, MCP SDK now includes comprehensive support for HTTP and HTTPS transport in addition to the existing stdio-based communication. HTTP/S support enables more flexible deployment of MCP servers, as LLM clients can connect over the network in distributed environments.
• EDI SDK [Beta] - EDI SDK is a new toolkit that simplifies EDI development through EDI Objects - transaction-specific, strongly-typed classes generated from EDI schemas. These classes provide an object-oriented interface for creating, translating, parsing, and validating X12 and EDIFACT documents. By exposing segments, loops, and elements as named properties, EDI Objects eliminate the need for developers to track document position or work directly with low-level EDI data structures.
• IPWorks NFS [Beta] - IPWorks NFS is a component library for building fully customizable NFS clients and servers. The toolkit enables developers to implement NFS file operations, authentication, and data transfer through a simple component API.
• IPWorks NFC - IPWorks NFC is now fully released. The toolkit provides a unified API for adding Near-Field Communication (NFC) capabilities to Android and iOS applications, including reading and writing NDEF records and accessing tag metadata.
• n8n Node Library - This release introduces enterprise n8n nodes that extend the native capabilities of the n8n automation platform. The Node Library makes it easier to ensure your n8n solution meets security and compliance requirements by providing OpenPGP encryption and decryption, end-to-end file security, email signing and encryption, and more.
• JavaScript Editions - The JavaScript editions are now published as official npm packages. Developers can install them using standard Node.js package management processes.
• Additional Updates
  • All .NET Editions have been updated with support for Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10.
  • All Delphi and C++ Builder Editions have been updated with support for RAD Studio 13.
  • Secure PDF and SecureBlackbox now support right-to-left languages and extended Arabic shaping in signature widgets.
  • Performance improvements in Secure PDF when processing large documents.
  • Secure BlackBox now supports post-quantum (PQC) signature algorithms in all TLS and SSH components.
  • Improvements to certificate chain validation logic including expanded time zone support, revocation completeness checks, and more.