The StiOptions.Web.AllowGCCollect option is now supported by the report viewer and the report designer in ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core. It starts the garbage collector after the server responses, which reduces the memory used by the application at the cost of slower responses under a large number of simultaneous requests.
Added the DuckDB data adapter. Data from DuckDB databases can now be used to create reports and dashboards.
Added the RowNumber() function for dashboards. It returns the row number (1..N) of a row in the final sorted result.
Added the "Sankey" chart type in reports and dashboards. It shows the flows between categories as links whose width is proportional to the flow value.
Added the MS SQL data adapter based on the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient provider, which supports strict SQL Server encryption (Encrypt=Strict). It works only on .NET Framework. To use it, create a standard "MS SQL" connection, then select "Microsoft.Data.SqlClient" for the "MS SQL Data Adapter" option on the "Data" page of the report designer options, or set the StiOptions.Dictionary.UseMicrosoftDataSqlClient property to true. The report designer downloads the provider from NuGet.
Added Sparkline in Cross-Tab and Pivot Table.
Added smart guides to the web report designer. They highlight alignment between a component being moved or resized and other components on the page.
A new property has been added to the report viewer and designer - AllowLoadingSystemFontsToClientSide. It sends fonts installed on the server to the client side, so reports are displayed with the correct fonts in the browser.
Added MonthYear, QuarterYear, WeekYear and DayMonthYear functions in reports and dashboards. They group data by the month, the quarter, the week or the day within the year, keeping the chronological order.
The PrimaryKey property has been added to the data columns in the data dictionary. The key columns are taken from the data source schema or from the Key attribute of business objects, shown with a key icon in the dictionary tree, and preselected when creating a relation in the report designer.
Added the "Markdown" component to reports. It renders Markdown text with headings, lists, tables, images, links and code blocks, breaks across pages, is exported to all formats, and has its own editor with color themes in the report designer.
Added the "Micro QR Code" barcode in reports. It supports versions M1-M4 with automatic version selection, numeric, alphanumeric and byte data and the error correction levels L, M and Q; by default the highest level that fits the data is selected.
The relations of the data dictionary are now created from the foreign keys of the database when retrieving columns from a SQL connection of any type: MS SQL, MySQL and MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Firebird, SQLite, SQL CE, Access, Teradata, Snowflake, DuckDB, VistaDB, as well as the connections through ODBC and OLE DB.
Added a new GetLabels function for list variables requested from the user. It returns the labels of the selected items instead of their keys, so they can be used in queries and expressions, for example GetLabels("Cities").ToQueryString(); the short form Cities.Labels can be used as well.
Added support for VistaDB 6 databases: the VistaDB connection now works through the VistaDB 6 provider, databases of VistaDB 5 are still opened, and the primary keys of the tables are retrieved.
When the StiOptions.Web.AllowGCCollect option is enabled, the garbage collector now starts after the response is sent, so the web viewer and the web designer no longer delay the responses while it runs.
The default value of the AllowLoadingCustomFontsToClientSide property in the Blazor report viewer has been changed to false, to match the default behavior on other platforms.
When exporting a report to OpenDocument Writer, hyperlinks of text components and images are now exported.
Improved retrieving the database schema of an Informix connection in the report designer, including tables, views, columns, stored procedures with parameters and relations.
When printing a report to PDF in the web viewer, the ImageResolutionMode export setting is now set to Auto by default, so images keep their original resolution.
Retrieving the database schema through an ODBC driver has been reworked: the primary keys and the relations are retrieved, and the system objects are no longer listed among the tables.
Fixes
No rows in the "View Data" window and in the report for the tables of a Teradata or VistaDB connection created from the database schema in the report designer.
Displaying and saving the value of the "Zip Code" component when a report is rendered in interpretation mode.
Hidden interlacing of a chart area was displayed again after saving a report to an *.mrt file or rendering it in compilation mode.
Applying a condition with an aggregate function when rendering a report in compilation mode might not work if the band is not explicitly specified for the aggregate function.
Filters of the DateTime and Boolean types on the Data band in reports with the VB script language rendered in interpretation mode.
Synchronizing the columns and the primary keys of the data sources of an OData V1-V3 connection with the "Synchronize" command of the data dictionary. These data sources were skipped: their columns were not updated, and a primary key unchecked in a column did not come back.
Retrieving the types of the columns which an ODBC driver names in its own way when reading the database schema: int4, float8 and timestamptz of PostgreSQL, DOUBLE PRECISION of Firebird, datetime2 and the identity columns of MS SQL. Such columns came as strings, the tables with a space in the name came without columns, and the relations of these tables and key columns were lost in the data dictionary.
The data sources added through an ODBC driver failed to build in a report when the name of a table, a view or a stored procedure contained a space or mixed-case letters, or when the table belonged to a schema: the names in the query were quoted the wrong way for the database, and the schema was added twice.
The server memory used by the web designer and the web viewer was not released after closing or reloading the page, and was kept while the application was idle.
The undo history in the web designer could be lost when the session of another user expired.
Displaying the views of an Oracle database in the "Select Data" form when connecting through the Devart provider.
Calculating a regular total, such as Sum, in the compilation mode on a page with columns when a column total, such as colSum, is used for the same data band. The regular total was reset on every column and showed the value of the last column only.
Processing line breaks in the expressions of the "Rich Text" component when a report is rendered in interpretation mode. The " " and "par" sequences in string values were shown as text instead of a line break and a new paragraph.
Displaying a rotated text component with the AllowHtmlTags property enabled: the text was shifted outside a narrow cell or drawn without rotation, depending on the text engine.
Wrapping a one-character word that did not fit at the end of a line in a text component using the SixLabors library: the component did not grow to accommodate the extra line, and the last character was clipped.
Fixed an issue where hyperlinks of chart series did not open in the web viewer unless drill-down was enabled for the series.
When exporting a report to Word with the "Use Page Header and Footer" option enabled, the row height was calculated slightly incorrectly, so the last row on a page could move to the next page.
The height of the "Image" component was calculated incorrectly when the DockStyle and MinSize/MaxSize properties were used together.
The data type of the FLOAT and SMALLFLOAT columns of an Informix data source, FLOAT is now double precision and SMALLFLOAT is single precision.
Missing string columns in the schema of an OData V1-V3 connection in the report designer when the properties are marked as nullable in the service metadata.
Connecting to an IBM DB2 database with the installed IBM Data Server Driver in the report designer; the "DB2" connection is available again in the list of data sources.
Positioning of underline and strikeout lines for text drawn with synthesized fonts when exporting a report to PDF.
Losing the version of an OData connection when saving a report to an *.mrt file with JSON markup or previewing it in the report designer. A connection configured for OData V1-V3 was treated as V4, and the data source remained empty.
Saving the connection parameters of a Google Sheets data source when saving a report to an *.mrt file with JSON markup.
Saving the code page of a dBase data source when saving a report to an *.mrt file with JSON markup.
Displaying page numbers in the "Table of Contents" component when a report with a large number of pages is rendered with the ReportCacheMode property enabled.
Retrieving the database schema through the Oracle ODBC driver no longer crashes the report designer. The columns of the whole database were requested from the driver at once, and it brought the process down; now they are read schema by schema.
Stimulsoft Reports.WEB 2026.3.4Sep 10, 2026
Features
Added support for the Trimming and LineLimit properties of a text component when exporting a report to SVG and PDF, also in the new HTML text rendering engine.
When exporting a report to OpenDocument Writer, support has been added for bookmarks and the links leading to them. It allows navigating a report by its table of contents in the exported document.
Added a new "Island of Ireland" map for the "Map" component in reports and for the "Region Map" element in dashboards.
Added support for the data URI scheme in the ImageURL property of the "Image" component. An image embedded into a report template as data:image/... is now displayed when viewing and exporting a report.
The UseInlineStyles property has been added to the HTML export settings. When enabled, the styles of report components are duplicated as inline styles of the HTML elements, so the exported report keeps its appearance in e-mail clients that ignore the style block.
Added support for tab stops with left, center, right and decimal alignment in the "Rich Text" component.
Added support for the "All caps" character formatting in the "Rich Text" component.
Fixes
Displaying the export settings dialog before sending a report by email in the viewer.
Incorrect font size for text with HTML tags when exporting a report to EMF.
Exporting a report to DBF when the default system encoding is not a single-byte encoding, such as UTF-8.
Displaying missing glyphs with some font styles when the text quality is set to "WYSIWYG".
Embedding the custom font body separately for every element of a dashboard that uses that font, when displaying the dashboard in the web designer or web viewer.
Embedding fonts when exporting a report to PowerPoint. Now embedded fonts are displayed correctly in MS Office 2019 and later versions.
Displaying SVG images with clipping paths when exporting a report to PDF.
Text size, line height and paragraph indents in the "Rich Text" component when viewing and exporting a report.
Line spacing modes and the height of empty paragraphs and empty table cells in the "Rich Text" component.
Determining a font name and measuring trailing spaces in the "Rich Text" component when a document contains alternative font names.
Word wrapping, the height of empty lines and using fonts from a document font table in the "Rich Text" component.
Displaying list bullets which use symbol fonts in the "Rich Text" component when viewing and exporting a report.
Line spacing in the "Rich Text" component when a paragraph is wrapped into several lines.
The font size, the background color and the text alignment when a rich text is converted to HTML in the web designer.
Duplicating the "Close" menu item for each value of the "Checked List Box" parameter in the Angular viewer.
Stimulsoft Reports.WEB 2026.3.3Aug 25, 2026
Features
Added the Spanish language to the extended localization - report checker messages and property descriptions in the designer.
Added the Brazilian Portuguese language to the extended localization - report checker messages and property descriptions in the designer.
Added the Italian language to the extended localization - report checker messages and property descriptions in the designer.
Added localization of the function descriptions in the dictionary of the report designer. The descriptions of functions, their arguments and return values, as well as function categories, are now displayed in the designer language.
Added the StiOptions.Export.Excel.ConvertNumericTextMode option (values: None / CrossTabOnly / All, default: None). It controls whether text that looks like a number is exported to Excel as a numeric cell rather than as a string.
Added full support for JSON data (JArray, JObject) in business objects, including nested objects, arrays, and native column data types.
Fixes
Navigating to a bookmark by clicking a hyperlink in the report viewer.
Export to Word. When the AllowHtmlTags option was enabled in the Tag property, the #PageNumber# and #TotalPageCount# commands did not work.
Export to PDF. In rare cases, an error occurred when an Editable Field / Checkbox and an Unsigned Signature Field were present in the report simultaneously.
Report engine. When "Skip First" was enabled, the "Break If Less Than" property displayed one more row on the first page than on subsequent pages.
The UseDashboardCacheOnTabSwitch option was ignored in the web viewer and the web designer on ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core, so dashboard data was requested from the database again on every switch between dashboard pages.
An issue with applying the ConvertNulls property when changing a data column type to a numeric type has been fixed.
A component pasted from the clipboard appeared in the top-left corner of the page instead of near its original position in the web designer.
The "+" character is encoded incorrectly in the Codabar barcode, and the B and C start/stop characters are swapped.
Converting whole amounts to Chinese currency words using the ToCurrencyWordsZh function.
An issue where the report panel could extend beyond the viewer bounds when its container size changed during initial rendering has been fixed.
Stimulsoft Reports.WEB 2026.3.2Aug 14, 2026
Features
Automatic font substitution in PDF export when the selected font does not contain the required glyphs; on .NET, system fonts are now embedded automatically without requiring registration.
Added the "Format" property for the "X Top Axis" and "Y Right Axis" labels.
Added the ShowBookmarksPanel option, which determines whether the Bookmarks panel is displayed automatically when a report contains bookmarks. The default value is true.
The Server.UseForwardedProto option for the .NET 6, .NET 8, and .NET 10 viewers and designers allows you to take into account the X-Forwarded-Proto header so that links are built with the correct scheme (http/https) behind a reverse-proxy.
Report Checker now detects font-related issues, including missing glyphs, unavailable Bold/Italic styles, fonts that cannot be embedded in PDF, and RTL text with the RightToLeft option disabled.
Added support for nonce-based Content Security Policy for script-src. All inline scripts generated by the web viewers are now signed with a random, cryptographically strong nonce that is generated anew for each HTTP request. This lets the host application set Content-Security-Policy: script-src 'self' 'nonce-...' without unsafe-inline, without breaking the viewer.
Fixes
Auto-completion mode in the search bar on the properties panel has been disabled.
Values of user data sources are now loaded with the declared column types instead of plain strings.
Added Stimulsoft Reports for Vue.js providing a ready-made solution for displaying reports in Vue.js applications. The component supports viewing, printing, exporting, and a full set of interactive features, including drill-down, interactive sorting, group collapsing, and more.
Added support for Windows target frameworks to the Reports.WEB and Dashboards.WEB NuGet packages.
Added support for text format editor for labels in charts.
Added support for editing request headers from code for GraphQL data sources.
Added new Polar and Stacked Polar charts in reports and dashboards.
For "List" type variables, the ability to set a limit on selected values has been added using the "Max Selected Items" parameter. This is only possible if the "Allow User Values" parameter is set to "False.".
Added new rendering modes for conditional formatting such as "Data Bar".
Optimized property names in the report designer panel when localization is disabled.
Added support for the SHA2 encryption algorithm and a license key length of 128 to 512 bits.
Fixes
Expressions for the item list in a report variable of the Range type with the DateTime data type.
Positioning values in the parameters panel in the report viewer.
Export a report to an encrypted document without specifying a password.
Error when switching pages with the search bar open.
Stimulsoft Reports.WEB 2026.2.4Jun 5, 2026
Features
Added the ability to automatically calculate page width and height when changing the web browser window size and the PageWidth or PageHeight are selected in the viewer.
Fixes
Interacting with values in the Tree View Box filter element dropdown in dashboards.
Stimulsoft Reports.WEB 2026.2.3May 21, 2026
Features
Angular Viewer and Angular Designer - Converted to a zoneless architecture, migrated to the OnPush change detection strategy, and replaced Angular Animations with native CSS animations.
Fixes
Entering values into a variable field with the DateTime data type and passing this value to the report.
Calling the editor for a user data source.
Looping through a relation in data transformation.
Displaying a tooltip when Reverse Horizontal mode is enabled for Stacked Bar and Clustered Bar chart types.
An issue with bold and italic fonts from resources.
Stimulsoft Reports.WEB 2026.2.2Apr 29, 2026
Fixes
Executing Blockly scripts in the Click event of a text component.
Decoding a license key in the Blazor reporting tool.
Added new UtcToLocalTime and LocalTimeToUtc functions which provide the ability to convert Local time to UTC and back.
Added support for wrapping words for chart legend values when the column width in the legend is greater than 0.
Added the React report viewer for .NET reporting tool.
New Auto and SimpleDocked values have been added to the ToolbarDisplayMode option, and a new option - PageBorderRadius has been added.
Updated the Microsoft.CodeAnalysis library dependency to version 5.0.0 for .NET 10.
Added support for blocking the execution of property expressions for the DockStyle property at design time.
Library signing keys have been updated. To ensure the project works correctly, simply update the libraries and rebuild it.
Improved support for generic type parsing.
Fixes
Create a component with a link to a column when double-clicked in the data dictionary.
Loading a font file for the .NET reporting tool, in cases where the GraphicsEngine option is set to GDI.
Fixed incorrect working with short and byte types in the viewer parameters.
Fixed an issue with converting DateTimeOffset values in the expression parser.
Subscribing to the global event "window.beforeunload" in the web designer.
Unintentional termination of the report designer during calculation of empty text.
Applying the "dd.MM.yyyy" date format to chart labels.
In the list of variable values, identical labels were grouped into one.
Getting data from selected columns into items of a variable.
AM/PM time format in datepicker.
Saving the description for a report when you change it in the Report Options editor.
Fixed variable's data binding bug with some integers types.
Time format in the options panel for variables with the TimeOnly data type.
A CSP (Content Security Policy) nonce conflict with Watermark.
Displaying constant lines for charts when the "Reverse Vertical" property is set to "True.".
Fixed incorrect line and column calculation for tokens in the C# parser.
Stimulsoft Reports.WEB 2026.1.7Mar 23, 2026
Fixes
Processing of the provider's "Open Street Map" (OSM) in online maps.
Displays the "Parameters" control in the viewport depending on the value of the option in the "Preview Settings" editor.
Displaying an electronic signature when printing a report.
Export to PDF: For some fonts with incorrectly set Ascend/Descend parameters, the line height was calculated incorrectly.
Export to HTML: The indentation for nested list items was being set incorrectly.
Engine: When parsing SQL command, numeric parameters are now converted to string forcibly when the "en-US" culture is set.
HTML-Tags engine: The tag inside the tag no longer creates an extra line.
HTML-Tags engine: Positioning of subscript text.
Resetting the date when using a DateTime variable and using a Time-type mask to the variable's value.
Stimulsoft Reports.WEB 2026.1.6Mar 13, 2026
Fixes
Fixed error displaying loaded fonts in the print window in Blazor components.
Fixed issue displaying zero values in a "Heatmap" chart.
Stimulsoft Reports.WEB 2026.1.5Mar 6, 2026
Features
The new StiOptions.Engine.Maps.DisabledMaps property allows you to exclude maps from the Map report component and the Region Map dashboard element.
Added new RuntimeType(), RuntimeName(), RuntimeVersion(), RuntimeIdentifier(), and RuntimeOS() functions to determine the current execution environment.
When exporting a report to a PDF file, the algorithm for determining the need to synthesize the font style has been improved.
Fixes
Processing decimal64 data in a ClickHouse data source.
When exporting a report to a PDF file, attached files are not allowed in PDF/A-1 mode (according to the specification).
When exporting a report to a PDF file, a rare issue occurs with incorrect display of text in the ElectronicSignature and Map components if the font is not installed on the system.
Stimulsoft Reports.WEB 2026.1.4Feb 19, 2026
Fixes
Referencing business objects in a report using aliases.
Calling the GetDrillDownReport event when drilling down using an external report.
Processing the "Diameter" property for a "Pie" chart type.
Processing a list of elements in a variable, in cases where labels are not specified for the elements.
Stimulsoft Reports.WEB 2026.1.3Feb 2, 2026
Features
The colors of the sorting and collapse icons can now be changed using the following properties: StiOptions.Viewer.IconBackgroundColor and StiOptions.Viewer.IconForegroundColor.
Added a text editor for properties: "Report Name", "Report Alias", "Report Author", "Report Description".
Improved repainting grid lines on a page in the report designer.
Focus is now moved to the parent component when pressing Esc in the report designer.
Fixes
Localization of names for custom fonts in the list.
The size of the drop-down list of variables, in cases where long value labels are used.
Positioning images when editing them in a rendered report.
Multiple designers on one page.
Displaying text in the rendered report when the "Allow HTML Tags" and "Editable" properties are simultaneously enabled for the text component.
Incorrect saving the default value of Watermark.TextBrush to JSON format has been fixed.
Displaying the variable label in the report when using the default value.
Displaying the Report Checker results on the Preview tab.
Minimum height of the "Map" component editor for reports.
Editing multiple data source parameters in the Web Report Designer.
Stimulsoft Reports.WEB 2026.1.2Jan 8, 2026
Features
Added the ability to replace the content for the Image component in a rendered report if the component's Editable property is set to True.
Display the 'Format' category in the data dictionary tree for different editors.
Fixes
Setting the format for the parameters panel using the "ParametersPanelDateFormat" option.
Processing values ​​for the DateTime Offset data type on different operating systems.
Chinese character support in the Rich Text report component for web reporting components.
Passing keys and labels of variables with the DateTime, TimeSpan, TimeOnly data types.
Using aliases in the text editor for the Web report designer.
EngineV2, in rare cases, when the "Print At Bottom" property is enabled in the "Sub-report" component, the plotting loop occurs.
Export MS-Word, the background of the "Shape" component is now exported more correctly.
The StiOptions.Engine.DisableAntialiasingInPainters property now also works for the Shape component.
Output of zero values ​​in the ToWordsZh() function.
The JoinColumnContent() function for business objects now works correctly with calculated columns.