Released: May 21, 2025

Updates in 2025 Q2 (2025.2.520)

Features

• Common:
  • Breaking Changes:
    • Unified distribution for trial and commercial packages: Streamlined user experience by consolidating trial and commercial packages into a single unified distribution for Telerik UI libraries. Access is now managed through a license key file, eliminating the need for separate trial downloads.
    • For basic compression/decompression tasks, the Telerik Document Processing Libraries now uses System.IO.Compression instead of Telerik.Zip.
• What's New:
  • Added a new Badge Component.
  • Updated Source code build instructions.
  • Document Processing Library: Added support for querying and summarizing PDF content using AI, enabling users to interact with and extract insights from PDF files.
  • Document Processing Library: Introduced multiple Digital Signatures support.
• AIPrompt:
  • Added Visual Studio Designer for the AIPrompt component.
• HtmlChart:
  • Added a No-Data Template.
• PdfProcessing:
  • Introduced multiple Digital Signatures support.
  • Introduced support for Marked Content.
  • RadFixedPage.CropBox is now respected when exporting to image with SkiaImageFormatProvider.
  • Hierarchical document structure (import-export) is now preserved.
  • PdfStreamWriter: AdditionalActions (AA) are now exported when merging pages.
  • Introduced support for UnShrinking - Method 1.
  • Introduced partial support for GoToR action.
  • Handled the import of documents with null elements in the Associated Files (/AF) collection.
  • Handled the import of documents with Associated Files elements whose content is set to null.
  • Exposed Clone methods for cloning PositionContentElements (Path, Image, Form, TextFragment).
  • Tesseract OCR now works on Linux platforms.
  • Introduced support for Launch action.
  • Added support for querying and summarizing PDF content using AI, enabling users to interact with and extract insights from PDF files.
  • Fields that are not in the fields dictionary are now imported.
  • Breaking Change - Removed PdfExportSettings.ShouldEmbedFonts obsoleted API.
• Spell:
  • Added a mixed capitalization check to RadSpell with new WordIgnoreOptions.MixedCapitalization setting.
• SpreadProcessing:
  • Updated the implementation of the SimpleTextMeasurer to use AverageFontWeight.
• ZipLibrary:
  • EncryptionSettingsBase constructor and Algorithm property have been removed; use the static creation methods instead.
  • Implemented timeout for creating, updating and reading of zip archives.
  • Breaking Changes:
    • ZipArchive constructors have been removed. Use the static methods instead.
    • DefaultCryptoProvider class has been removed. Use PkzipCryptoProvider instead.
    • DefaultEncryptionSettings class has been removed. Use the static creation methods of the EncryptionSettings class instead.
    • ShouldEmbedFonts property of the PdfExportSettings has been removed. Use FontEmbeddingType instead.

Fixes

• What's New:
  • Object doesn't support property or method 'attachShadow' in IE mode of Microsoft Edge.
• ComboBox:
  • This element has a mismatch between the value of its readonly and aria-readonly attributes.
  • Update the aria readonly label.
• DateInput:
  • Invalid regular expression in the RadDateInputScript.js script.
• FloatingActionButton:
  • Setting Enabled=false for FloatingActionButton items does not disable the item.
  • Adjust opacity for disabled FloatingActionButton items.
• Grid:
  • Bootstrap skin sets an incorrect height via .rgBatchContainer in Batch edit mode.
  • Improved WebClient usage in the Image Export.
• Input:
  • TextBox set_enable() method is not working properly.
• Navigation:
  • Invisible item participates in keyboard navigation.
• PdfProcessing:
  • Wrong image export when a document is signed and has indexed color space.
  • Wrong font is loading when FontFile2 is CFF (Compact Font Format).
  • A NotImplementedException is thrown when calling Type1FontSource.GetCapHeight() method.
  • The StokeAlphaConstant is not handled correctly when applied on a TextFragment.
  • SkiaImageFormatProvider: Wrong glyph rendering due to incorrectly parsed Type1Font glyph data.
  • SkiaImageFormatProvider: IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown due to wrongly processed image data.
  • A NullReferenceException is thrown when the GetAllTextFromImage method is executed on a blank image without text.
  • A NotImplementedException is thrown for the SvgFontDefn's MeasureCharacters method.
  • An InvalidDataException: 'Unknown compression method (0x3C)' when importing a file with XRef table defined in an object with FlateDecode filter.
  • An InvalidCastException is thrown when importing a document with an annotation declared in the Fields collection.
  • Exporting a specific PDF file generates large amounts of ExtGState entries.
  • An ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown when creating a CapPathRound for an SVG element.
  • An ArgumentNullException is thrown when importing a document with widget annotations and null state appearance.
  • A NullReferenceException is thrown while importing document without AcroForm, containing fields defined in the widget annotation.
  • Form Fields are not copied when merging documents' pages using PdfStreamWriter.
• Spell:
  • Fixed Uncaught SyntaxError Unterminated string in JSON.
• SpreadProcessing:
  • XlsFormatProvider: FormulaParseException is thrown when importing a document with formulas referencing non-existent named ranges.
  • An InvalidOperationException is thrown when a comment uses legacyDrawingHF element instead of legacyDrawing.
  • Incorrect timestamp of DateTime with custom number format.
  • Exception Sequence contains no matching element is thrown on importing a document with a comment without an author.
  • Using timeout with Timespan.MaxValue results in ArgumentOutOfRangeException: 'Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. (Parameter 'delay').
  • Incorrect format result when the fraction format is applied and the worksheet contains fractions with a fractional part higher than 0.5.
• WordsProcessing:
  • Simulated bold text loses its boldness after exporting a DOCX file to PDF format.
  • A NullReferenceException is thrown when importing documents with moved content when Track Changes is enabled.
  • HTMLFormatProvider: Exporting to HTML does not preserve line spacing.
  • Document's East Asia font falls back to a different font when opened in MS Word.
  • If At Least line spacing is smaller than the font size, it causes squished lines when exported to HTML.
  • Wrong glyph rendering when the Type3FontGlyphSource.Width is not consistent with the font's Width.
  • An InvalidOperationException is thrown when document with comment on a deleted text is imported.
  • An ArgumentException is thrown when a theme element does not have a name.