Released: Nov 13, 2024

Updates in 2024 Q4 (2024.4.1113)

Features

• What's New
  • Added default timeout for regular expressions to improve performance and security, customizable via the Telerik.RegexMatchTimeout appsetting in web.config.
  • Replaced the use of potentially insecure components with secure alternatives across various controls and functionalities.
  • Sanitized script-related HTML tags to comply with secure coding standards.
• Editor
  • Improved XSS DOM events filtering for enhanced security.
• PdfProcessing
  • Introduced support for Matte color for Soft-Mask Images (SMasks).
  • Introduced support for creating documents using CMYK colors.
  • Introduced support for JavaScript actions API.
  • SkiaImageFormatProvider: Introduced support for Text, TextMarkup, Line, and Stamp annotations.
  • Now respects the ExtGState's current stroking alpha constant (CA and ca) when rendering images.
  • Introduced support for ligatures.
  • Introduced handling the import of documents with the wrong type of action key.
  • Introduced support for Trigger Events API related to JS actions.
  • Introduced API for setting Image opacity.
  • Introduced support for RTL (Right-To-Left) text.
  • Introduced Soft-Mask Dictionaries in ExtGState object.
  • Implemented Blend Mode parameter of ExtGState object.
  • Introduced support for Trigger Events.
  • Added support for justified text.
  • Introduced support for Transparency Group XObjects.
• SpreadStreamProcessing
  • Introduced support for importing files with absolute relationship targets.
• WordsProcessing
  • Introduced support for Justify text alignment.

Fixes

• Keyboard navigation
  • In a full keyboard the ENTER key and Numpad ENTER key behave differently.
• Document Processing Libraries
  • Fixed the improper handling of memory resources.
• Microsoft Visual Studio Extension
  • Upgrade Project Wizard does not list multiple projects.
  • AJAX VB website project is not detected by Upgrade Wizard.
  • The text in Web Form Name, Version fields is not aligned for Ajax Add Telerik Scenario.
• FileExplorer
  • Added the ability to delete multiple files using a context menu in FileTree mode.
• PdfProcessing
  • An InvalidOperationException is thrown while parsing the Post table of a specific font file on export.
  • Wrong colors are exported in Separation colorspaces with ICCBased containing LabColor due to incorrect calculations in Tint transformation function.
  • Win32Exception is thrown during a long-running process importing many documents with images.
  • An unexpected trace warning when SVG document does not contain clipping.
  • Fixed issue with distorted SVG after exporting.
  • A NullReferenceException is thrown when writing image content with the PdfPageStreamWriter.
  • ArgumentNullException is thrown when resolving DecodeParms collection in Image XObject.
  • Form XObject does not takes graphic state color from its content stream context.
  • Document text overlaps and is not possible to read for a specific document.
  • Fixed issue regarding decreased performance when loading thumbnails.
  • Wrong color appears when the Separation color space with name is set to None.
  • Watermark transparency is not imported correctly.
  • The Form object does not inherit the graphics state of the page.
  • RTL (right-to-left) text is reversed when inserting it directly to a document.
• Scheduler
  • Appointment does not update in the UI when rebinding the Scheduler to an updated collection.
• SpreadProcessing
  • Exporting a workbook with two or more charts with axes produces an invalid document.
  • Built-in number formats are not re-evaluated after changing the culture.
• SpreadStreamProcessing
  • Cell iteration is interrupted when it hits a cell containing an error.
• WordsProcessing
  • RtfFormatProvider: Heading color is not properly exported.
  • An InvalidOperationException is thrown when exporting a document containing table with no cells.
  • DocFormatProvider: IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown when importing a specific document with defined section columns.
  • ArgumentException is thrown during MailMerge of a document with an inline shape.
• ZipLibrary
  • An invalid content appears after updating an empty password-protected archive.