Global announcements

docx4j 17.2.0 is now available.

To get this release, please see https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html

Summary of changes; for details please see https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/blob/ ... ANGELOG.md

Markup compatibility:

- Load now keeps mc:AlternateContent wherever Word writes it

- TraversalUtil visits ONE branch of each mc:AlternateContent by default (the Fallback);
org.docx4j.jaxb.McSelection gives the selection rule

Packaging:

- A package docx4j creates is a Word 365 document (compatibilityMode 15 ...

Hard on the heels of 17.0.5, docx4j 17.1.0 is now available.

To get this release, please see https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html

It targets Java 11, and is compatible with Java 11, 17, 21, and we expect Java 25.

It is labeled 17.1.0 because:

• Substantial improvements to PDF via XSL FO, including default behaviour changes
  
• New public surfaces:
  two new exported packages (org.docx4j.org.apache.poi.hwmf and .hemf), MetafileRenderer, the parts' toSVG/toPNG API,
  Docx4J.updateToc ...

docx4j 17.0.5 was released 5 September 2026

docx4j now builds on Microsoft Windows (in addition to Linux, OSX)

PDF via XSL FO - layout now follows Word's rules by default: line breaking, line height and placement, tab stops, paragraph spacing at page, section and table-cell edges, footnotes, list labels, tables, columns and kerning now follow the rules Word applies.

docx4j-export-fo on the module path: xml-apis:xml-apis:1.4.01 removed.

More details at https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/blob/ ... ...

docx4j and ImportXHTML 17.0.4 are now available.

To get this release, please see https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html

It targets Java 11, and is compatible with Java 11, 17, 21, and we expect Java 25.

Both PDF/HTML
export and OpenDoPE data binding have long had non-XSLT implementations that
were faster but incomplete; in this release they reach feature parity with the
XSLT pathways and become the defaults: in
benchmarks the visitor exporters generate ...

docx4j 17.0.3 is now available.

To get this release, please see https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html

It targets Java 11, and is compatible with Java 11, 17, 21, and we expect Java 25.

For changes in this release, please see https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/blob/ ... ANGELOG.md

The improvements relate to font handling and PDF output via XSL FO.

docx4j 17.0.2 is now available.

To get this release, please see https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html

It targets Java 11, and is compatible with Java 11, 17, 21, and we expect Java 25.

Project development velocity has increased significantly since the release of Anthropic's Fable 5 and Opus 5, both of
which have been of assistance in preparing these releases.

Both repositories on GitHub now contain CLAUDE.md and CONTRIBUTING.md Please read the latter ...

docx4j 17.0.0 is now available. This version number signifies some significant changes in this release, including some minor breaking API changes.

To get this release, please see https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html

It targets Java 11, and is compatible with Java 11, 17, 21, and we expect Java 25.

Changes in this release:

- Configurable font cache location. Fixes #677

- Embedded fonts are supposed to be obfuscated, but some producers (eg Google ...

docx4j 11.5.14 is now available.

This is an important security update because it addresses a potential denial of service attack against
an application that processes untrusted or erroneous docx files.

Thanks to https://github.com/Isopach for the report.

To get this release, please see https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html

Changes in this release:

- PDF via FO: in multi-threaded environments, support use of a single FopFactory, configuring
fonts on ...

docx4j 11.5.13 is now available.

To get this release, please see https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html

As per https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/blob/ ... ANGELOG.md the changes in this release:

PDF via FO: improved handling of temp files created from embedded fonts for multi-threaded environments.
The only docx4j.openpackaging.parts.WordprocessingML.ObfuscatedFontPart property which now has any effect is tmpFontDir.
Files are now not deleted until exit, unless you explicitly invoke FontTablePart's deleteEmbeddedFontTempFiles().

Misc fixes: ...

docx4j 11.5.12 is now available.

To get this release, please see https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html

Changes in this release:

• FORMTEXT fields: Support merging data into them; better, converting to data-bound content controls.
  
• OpenDoPE XHTML importing. New property docx4j.model.datastorage.BindingTraverser.XHTML.PrioritiseRPr.
  Everything in the SDT rPr is applied. (Selecting the SDT in Word and applying direct formatting is the easiest way to configure the SDT rPr).
  This setting determines whether the rPr or ...