Deep CDR release notes

v7.8.0

Release date: 3/25/2026

• MS Office 2007 Enhancements:

  • Added support for image removal in Word 2007.

  • Removed structured document tags in Word 2007.

  • Removed author information inserted through Field Codes in Word 2007.

  • Removed embedded objects referenced via "oleLink" in Excel 2007.

  • Removed Relationship nodes in Definition path, Usage of embedded object when removing Embedded objects.

  • Enhance removal of embedded object with multiple definitions.

  • Handle document properties with exceptional paths.

• PDF Enhancements:

  • Handled XSS in PDF text fields.

  • Handled concatenated PDF files.

  • Implemented custom ratio scaling for PDF to rasterized PDF conversion.

  • Enhanced processing flow for innocent actions in PDF files.

  • Disassociated "Document open action" from "Block File > Script objects" section.

  • Prevented hyperlinks in comments from being re-added during re-sanitization.

• Support namespace in SVG sanitization.

• Enhanced XML Base64 processing for attribute values and self-closing nodes.

• TIFF Enhancements:

  • Preserved compression method for TIFF64 files.

  • Preserved EXIF tag RPCCoefficientTag in TIFF images.

• Added QR Sanitize support for cgBI PNG format.

• Fixed inconsistent sanitized image count behavior in RTF files.

• Added support for obfuscated emoji detection in TXT sanitization.

• Support Debian 13.

• Upgrade OpenSSL to 3.6.1.

v7.7.2

Release date: 2/5/2026

• Supported new file type: YENC.

• MS Office 2007 Enhancements:

  • Supported removal of custom property data.

  • Improved error messages for invalid file structures.

  • Removed all linked data when removing comments.

• PDF Enhancements:

  • Removed DTD data when removing XFA forms.

  • Added support for removing watermark annotations.

• Improved VCF Sanitization:

  • Handled QUOTED-PRINTABLE encoding.

  • Handled hyperlinks in text form.

  • Extended Base64-encoded data sanitization to arbitrary fields.

• Other Improvements:

  • Handled script tags with namespaces in SVG.

  • Improved handling of hyperlinks in RTF files.

v7.7.1

Release date: 1/14/2026

• Added support for VCF, JAR, WAR, LZ4, MAR.

• Added support for converting CgBI PNG files to other formats.

• MS Office 2007 enhancements:

  • Added support for converting DOCX/XLSX files to rasterized PDF.

  • Added support for removing image metadata in Microsoft Office 2007 files.

  • Added support for removing database field codes, DataBinding element in DOCX files.

  • Enhanced OLE object removal in DOCX files.

  • Reported hlinkfile and hlinkpres as hyperlinks in PPTX files.

• PDF enhancements:

  • Added support for removing text, popup, and free-text annotations.

  • Improved handling of PDF files containing /ObjStm objects.

  • Completely removed all related information when removing embedded objects.

  • Added dynamic fallback from Very Low to Low image quality.

  • Replaced invalid header versions with a valid one (1.7).

• Removed beta labels for several file types.

• Added CIS Level 2 support for Windows Server 2022.

v7.7

Release date: 12/16/2025

• Added support for High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF).

• Added support for cgBI PNG image format.

• Improved LNK file sanitization, with command details shown in specific scenarios.

• More accurate reporting of comment counts in Microsoft Word and Excel 2007.

• Improved comment removal for PowerPoint (PPTX) files.

• Updated the "Allowlist External Image" feature to exclude other types of external objects.

• Added audio frame data validation for MP3.

• Allow configuration of processing threads for video conversion.

• Fixed rare omsMediaService crashes when processing HEIC files.

• Reduced Linux package size by up to 20%.

• Upgraded the third-party conversion tool to a newer version.

• Improved VSIX sanitization with enhanced structural validation and removal of untracked files.

• Improved removal of embedded OLE objects in MPP files.

v7.6.3

Release date: 11/19/2025

• Fixed backward compatibility issue with the old MetaDefender Core (5.6.1 or older).

v.7.6.2

Release date: 11/12/2025

• Support new sanitizations: STEP (STP), AV1 Image File format (AVIF), Microsoft Project (MPP). 3D Mesh Layer (3DML), Visual Studio Extension (VSIX), 3D Assembly (EASM).

• PDF Improvements:

  • Enhance processing of JP2 images.

  • Improve hyperlink handling.

  • Return "action" details when removing Javascript.

  • Add "Very Low" quality option for PDF to Image conversion.

  • Expose details about "unused objects".

• XLSX improvements:

  • Enhance XLS to XLSX sanitization to ensure compliance with a specific validation tool.

  • Improve hyperlink handling in case of non-standard formular structure.

• Add a new option to configure output dimensions when converting TIFF to BMP.

• Provide more detailed feedback when sanitizing a broken GIF file.

• Enhance WMV output when input files lack a video stream.

• Add support control framerate in video conversion.

• Allow character encoding fallback in XML sanitization.

• Add support for removing "foreignObject" elements from SVG files.

• Improve invisible text detection in TXT files.

• Return detailed conversion and sanitization information, including source and target file types.

v7.6.1

Release date: 10/14/2025

• Expose suspicious data removed during GIF sanitization.

• Handle empty X-ALT-DESC fields in ICS files.

• Add support for "Display Hyperlinks in Comments" in PDF sanitization.

• Add support for removing unapproved tags in HTML sanitization.

• SVG sanitization improvements:

  • Return more detailed information when SVG sanitization occurs.

  • Reclassified the removal of Windows event attributes under JavaScript.

v7.6.0

Release date: 9/24/2025

• Support RIBC data table format (RIBC).

• Support PPT to PPTX conversion and OLE-based FLA to WAV.

• Skip signed PDF files based on provided certificate files.

• Enhance XML sanitization:

  • Support validating XML files against an XSD schema.

  • Support recursively sanitizing base64-encoded data in specified XML paths.

• Enhance DWFX sanitization:

  • Support removing embedded fonts.

  • Sanitize hyperlinks in .fpage and XML files.

• Apply syntactic checks to multiple XML structure files in MS Excel/PowerPoint 2007.

• Support DocuWorks version 10.

• Support sanitizing objects under a foreignObject element in SVG.

• Support analysis mode for “Process ASCII-based QR code” in MS Word.

• Return returning header and footer validation results for MS Word 2007.

• Return raw data information in image sanitization (when Include Processed Objects is enabled).

• Support validation of the RIBC Table in UTIB sanitization.

• Support JSON files in UTF-8 with BOM.

• Enhance image processing speed in MS PowerPoint 2007.

• Enhance JP2 image sanitization for PDF.

• Handle escaped characters in script nodes properly.

• Distinguish between email addresses and hyperlinks in several file formats.

v7.5.2

Release date: 8/19/2025

• Support for new file types:

  • MPP to PDF, MPP to XLSX,

  • Archive file: LZIP, ASAR.

  • Other: B3DM, DWFX.

• New configuration in HTML sanitization to replace "." with "[.]" in hyperlinks for domains.

• Support sanitizing ASCII-based QR codes in TXT files.

• Support removing "href" and "xlink:href" in the "script" node during SVG sanitization.

• Support "Excluded file types for Recursion" in MS Word sanitization to remove embedded files instead of performing recursive sanitization.

• Support allowing User-Defined Named Actions in PDF.

• Support base64 data in XML.

• Added syntactic validation for Custom XML property files in MS Office documents.

• Improved scan results to show structure validation outcomes more clearly.

• Fixed an issue where Deep CDR’s skip allowlisted feature was not working in some cases.

• Added support for Windows Server 2025 and Ubuntu 24.04.

v.7.5.1

Release date: 7/24/2025

• Support new file types:

  • AVC to AVC (the file type is enabled on-demand, please contact Customer Support or Sales team if you want to use it).

  • Convert XPS to PDF, PPTX to PPT.

  • Convert OPUS to WAV, FLA to WAV.

• Detect and report ASCII QR code in HTML.

• Improve sanitization for HTML with UTF-16 content.

• Upgrade OpenSSL to 3.3.3.

v7.5.0

Release date: 6/25/2025

• Support new file type:

  • WSQ, ODG, HEVC, TTML, MPD.

  • Convert PDF to rasterized PDF, VSD to PDF.

  • Convert MPP to WAV, PAF to WAV, M4A to WAV, CAF to WAV.

• Support QR code created using ASCII characters in RTF.

• Support QR code for PDF.

• Enhance sanitization:

  • Validate MS Excel 2007 file structure against zip format.

  • Handle a specific non-standard multiple HTML tags case.

  • Support new version of HEIC.

  • Better handling big MS Excel 2007, TIFF files.

  • Improve PDF, ICS, MS Powerpoint sanitization.

• Upgrade .NET to version 8.

• Drop support CentOS 7/RH 7/Debian 10/Ubuntu 20.

v7.4.2

Release date: 5/28/2025

• Support new filetype conversions:

  • Video: MTS to MP4, OGG to MP4, WMV to MP4, MP4 to AVI, AVI to MP4, AVI to WMV, MTS to WMV, SWF to WMV, WMV to AVI, MP4 to WMV

  • Audio: M4A to MP3, OPUS to MP3, WAV to MP3, WAV to MP4

  • Others: ICO to BMP, ICO to PNG, DOCX to DOC, XLSX to XLS, ODT to PDF, OTT to PDF, PDF to PPTX

• Enhance Word 2007 sanitization:

  • Validate many XML structure files against the XSD schemas.

  • Validate file structure against zip format.

• Enhance WAV sanitization.

• Support Amazon Linux 2023.

v7.4.1

Release date: 4/24/2025

• Support new file types:

  • Sanitization: URL, MDZip

  • Conversion: XLS to XLSX, TIF to PDF

• Support validating footer and header in MS Word, Excel 2007.

• Support QR code created using ASCII characters in MS Word 2007.

• Optimize resource usage when removing comments.

• Enhance timeout handling in case of recursive sanitization.

• Improve ICS sanitization in case of invalid html content.

v7.4

Release date: 3/27/2025

• New options for MS Office 2007:

  • Remove Smart Tag.

  • Validate Document Properties.

  • Validate Template Name.

• Support returning "Reason for action" to explain why Deep CDR removes/ sanitizes/validates an object (support Smart Tag, Document Properties, Template Name only)

• New configuration in HTML to allow output with pretty-printing style.

• New file type support:

  • convert MJ2 to MP4, MOV, AVI and WMV.

  • SCDOC

• Skip signed Macro.

• Support sanitization of base64 encoded data in JSON.

• Support skipping sanitization in special cases (Unsupported version, Exceeded file size, password protected, Invalid file structure).

• Support QR code created using ASCII characters in MS Word 2003.

• Better handling MP4, ICS, EML, PDF, CSV sanitization.

• Improve WEBP sanitization speed.

• Improve VSTO removal in DOCX.

• Update sanitization description to be clearer.

v7.3.2

Release date: 2/19/2025

• Support ZSTD, YZ1 sanitization.

• Allow users to input exceptional characters when removing control characters in TXT sanitization.

• Optimize resource usage for handling very large MP4 files.

• Enhance metadata removal for MP4, MOV, OGG files.

• Support metadata removal when converting from MP3 to MP4.

• Improve handling of charset values with double quotes (Content-Type: text/html;charset="...") in HTML sanitization.

• Improve /FontMatrix attribute processing to address CVE-2024-4367.

• Fix PDF form processing to prevent the removal of more objects than necessary.

• Update error messages for image sanitization when exceeding the size limit.

• Remove the Beta label for several file types.

v7.3.1

Release date: 1/15/2025

• Support removing invisible characters in TXT.

• Better handling HTML encode.

• Improve ODP sanitization to avoid missing images.

v7.3

Release date: 12/18/2024

• Support TNEF sanitization.

• A new configuration in MS Office 2007 to allow external images by given paths.

• A new speed mode for image sanitization

• Add "hidden watermark" to several file types to prove that Deep CDR validated the file structure.

• Add "pixel data" in sanitization details for image sanitization.

• Improvement:

  • OpenOffice (ODP, ODS, ODT) sanitization: better handling charts, images.

  • Preserve color palette in PNG.

  • Preserve HTML style tag "<!--" in HTML sanitization.

  • Handle MS Excel 2003 only contains a Book stream without a WorkBook stream.

  • Remove redundant data in AVI.

  • Handle NULL data in DictionaryObject in PDF.

  • Faster process XLSX contains large sheets.

• Support Rocky Linux 9.4, Debian 12.

v7.2.3

Release date: 11/13/2024

• Support MHT to MHT sanitization.

• Support new file type conversions:

  • MKV, MOV and OPUS to MP4.

  • MKV, M4V, 3GP and MTS to WMV.

  • MKV, M4V, MPEG, MTS and MOV to AVI.

• Support QR sanitization for MS Office.

• Enhance hyperlink processing for MS Office, SHOW file.

• Enhance process hyperlinks in HTML.

• Enhance EmbeddedPress removal towards preserving WordArt in JTD.

• Distinguish internal hyperlinks and external hyperlinks for the PowerPoint 2007.

• Optimize PDF hyperlink processing to use less system resource.

• Digitally sign all binary files.

v7.2.2

Release date: 10/23/2024

• Fix Japanese encoding in the HTML sanitization.

v7.2.1

Release date: 10/8/2024

• Support new file types:

  • EML, MSG, MBX and ESZ to ZIP.

  • 3GP, MP3, MPEG, M4V to MP4.

  • OTT to PDF.

• Extend Analysis mode for Audio, Image, Video.

• Support removing Book stream, printerSettings and hidden sheets in MS Excel.

• Enhance DDE detection in MS Excel.

• Handle the DDE with Japanese full-width characters in CSV.

• Handle HTML with ISO-2022-JP properly.

• Enhance VBA project processing in MS Office sanitization.

• Enhance OLE object removal in RTF sanitization

v7.2

Release date: 9/18/2024

• Support new file types:

  • TGA, ACM, MBX, JNLP.

  • GPKG, B3DM to ZIP.

  • CSV to XLSX.

• New configurations in the Blocking mode:

  • Blocking CVS files with formulas

  • Blocking PDF files with invalid digital signature

• New configuration in PDF to allow users to keep embedded objects base on file types.

• Handle white colored QR code.

• Handle "onbegin" event in HTML and SVG.

• Report DDE objects in MS Office more accurately.

• Distinguish regular hyperlink and HYPERLINK functions in MS Excel.

• Enhance TIFF, JPG, and DWF sanitization.

v7.1.1

Release date: 7/24/2024

• Sanitize Windows Compressed Enhanced Metafile (EMZ) files.

• Block files with "Invalid file structure" in the Blocking mode.

• Sanitize XML-DOCX files.

• Support QR code with transparent background in BMP, PNG.

• Validate digital signature in signed PDF files.

• Remove Beta labels for several file types.

v7.1

Release date: 6/25/2024

• Support new file type: Microsoft Power BI (PBIX), PowerPoint XML Presentation (XML-PPTX), Broadcast Wave 64 (BW64), Multiple Network Graphic (MNG), and Bean Markup Language (BML).

• Support DWG version 2000.

• Support macro allowlist for MS Office 2003.

• Support more objects in PDF, including:

  • PostScript,

  • Reference XObject, and

  • Named action.

• Support Japanese full-width formula signs in CSV sanitization.

• Support Shift-JIS encoding for TXT to PDF conversion.

• Support Shift-JIS binder ins XBD.

• Support Ubuntu 22.04.

• Enhance metadata removal for embedded images in MS Office.

• Enhance MS Word 2007 sanitization with documents missing main rels.

• Enhance image sanitization in PDF.

• Improve HTML encoding in EML sanitization.

v.7.0.1

Release date: 4/22/2024

• Resolve service startup failures.

• Improve HTA hyperlink handling.

v7.0

Release date: 4/3/2024

• Support DWF to DWF sanitization.

• Support new file types: Adobe Illustrator Template (AIT), Log (LOG), and Research Institute on Building Cost (RIBC).

• Support allowlisting of macros for Microsoft Word 2003.

• Improve sanitization for Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office 2007, HTA, and EML.

• Return metadata object details for several file types.

• Upgrade the engine to use .NET 6.

v6.8.2

Release date: 2/5/2024

• Enhance signed PDFs with compressed catalog processing.

v6.8.1

Release date: 1/16/2024

• Enhance macro processing for Microsoft Excel.

• Enhance hyperlink processing for PDFs.

v6.8.0

Release date: 12/19/2023

• Support new file types:

  • Archive files: e-dossier (ES3), System Center Configuration Manager Package Files (PCK).

  • Shape format (DBF), Printing (PRN), and MS Excel Add-ins (XLAM).

• QR code enhancements:

  • Support BPM format.

  • Add the capability to block images if they are QR codes.

  • Improve processing of QR code with rotation.

• Add a new hyperlink configuration for PDFs to prevent PDF readers turning text to hyperlinks

• Return metadata object details for MS Office 2003/2007 and PDFs.

• Improve attachment handling for EML sanitization.

• Enhance custom XML removal.

• Improve JWW sanitization.

• Fix the temp file removal issue during high load.

v6.7.2

Release date: 11/9/2023

• Better handling Japanese texts in the PDF sanitization.

• Improve non-English encoding when converting MS Office.

• Fix a race condition issue during a high-load situation.

v6.7.1

Release date: 10/5/2023

• Fix crash issue when processing a specific webp file

v6.7

Release date: 9/27/2023

• Support QR code sanitization

• New file type support: Material Exchange Format (MXF), V-nas BFO (BFO), Storyist Document (STORY), HTML Archive (HAR), VTXT, CAB to CAB

• Return base64 data in CDR details for OLE objects (it is configurable)

• Add watermark to images structural data inside documents

• Support removing windows event attributes on XML file format

• Show the reason of Blocked by Deep CDR

• Remove BETA label for EGG, WMA, OGG, OPUS, HEIC, JWC, JHD, APNG, TSV, OFT, BWF, W64, RF65, AIFF

• Fixed sanitization failure for a zip file with specific LNK files in it

v6.6.2

Release date: 8/9/2023

• Support DocuWork Container (XCT) sanitization

• Fix engine crash when processing TIFF file

v6.6.1

Release date: 7/19/2023

• Support AltChunk resource in MS Office

• Improve PDF validation rule

• Support new encoding in XML sanitization

v6.6

Release date: 6/20/2023

• Block file based on sanitization details (require MetaDefender Core 5.5.1+)

• New file type support: GeoTIFF, OneNote (ONE), Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Flash Video (FLV), MPEG-2 Tranmission (MTS), AutoCAD DXF (DXF), Shapefile (SHP, SHX), Powerpoint add-on (PPAM), Tableau workbook (TWB), DocuWorks Binder (XBD), Resource Description Framwork (RDF)

• Support removing customXML in DOCX/XLSX/PPTX

• Improve sanitization for JSON, WAV, MP3, MP4, Images

• Improve logging

v6.5.2

Release date: 4/13/2023

• Optimize the sanitization process during highload

• Improve AutoCAD sanitization

• Improve logging

v6.5.1

Release date: 4/2/2023

• Enhance URI checking in Calendar file sanitization

• Handle big PDF Outline tree

v6.5

Release date: 3/15/2023

• New file type support: Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF), Justsystem Hanako (JHD).

• Support RTF font table processing

• Support TXT with ISO/IEC 8859-1 encoding

• Improve the dependencies check to display proper messages

• Improve WMV processing

• Enhance external image removal in Excel 2007

• Enhance hyperlink processing in ICS

• Split the processors to services to improve the stability

v6.4.1

Release date: 2/13/2023

• Support new file types: Tableau Packaged Workbook (TWBX), Tableau Datasource (TDS), ShadowProtect Full Backup File (SPF)

• Enhance JPEG sanitization to prevent file size from increasing

v6.4

Release date: 1/11/2023

• New file type support: BWF, W64, RF64

• Support encoding Shift-JIS in TXT sanitization

• Handle SVG bomb attack

v6.3.2

Release date: 12/2/2022

• Support new file types: OFT, OPUS

• Fix an issue when converting a big SVG to BMP

• Preserve EML header when sanitizing files

v6.3.1

Release date: 11/3/2022

• Support DOCX to RTF conversion

• Enhance HTML sanitization

  • Better Zero-font removal

  • Support "base" tag and relaitive link

• Apply image size setting to BMP

• Improve PDF sanitization

v6.3

Release date: 10/5/2022

• Support Analysis mode

• Support APNG converstion to PNG, Ogg Vorbis Compressed Audio File (OGG), Tab-Separated Values (TSV) sanitization

• Support "Skipped Signed File" configuraiton for MS Office

• Allow user to set log level in the web management console

• Support recursive sanitization for PDF

• Introduce size limit settings for TIFF

• Display an error message when missing engine dependencies (MetaDefender Core 5.2.1+)

• Enhance comment removal in HTML

v6.2.2

Release date: 8/22/2022

• Support JW CAD (JWC), Windows Media Audio (WMA) sanitization

• Remove linked objects in ODT sanitization

• Remove Content Description, Extended Description and Content Branding when removing metadata in WMV/WMA

v6.2.1

Release date: 8/2/2022

• A configuration to skip processing digital signed MS Office Word/Excel 2003 and MS Office 2007

• Enhance WMV sanitization

• Allow whitelist macro hash with case insensitive

• Better handling signature in PDF file

v6.2

Release date: 6/29/2022

• Support new file types:

  • MPEG-4 format for Audio (M4A)

  • High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIC), the file type is enabled on-demand, please contact Customer Support or Sales team if you want to use it.

• Better handle executable actions in PDF (all annotations and actions)

• Sanitize Visual Studio macro (VSTO) in MS Office documents

• A new GIF configuration (GIF Layer Count Limit) to limit the number of GIF layers

• Improve LNK sanitization to show sanitization details better

• Better timeout handling

• Handle loading external resources in MS Office processing

• Remove BETA label for WEBM, VDX, VTX, VSX,TIFF64

v6.1.3

Release date: 6/2/2022

• Improve PDF sanitization

v6.1.2

Release date: 5/16/2022

• Process more objects in PDF sanitization

• Preserve empty encoding declaration in XML

• Fixed line folding issue for ICS sanitization

v6.1.1

Release date: 4/27/2022

• Report JavaScript Hyperlink as JavaScript in PDF sanitization details

• Using LZW compression for BMP to TIFF, PNG to TIFF, DWF/DXF to TIFF conversions

• Optimize PDF sanitization resource

v6.1

Release date: 3/28/2022

• Support JSON, CRL file format (BETA)

• Remove BETA label for several file types

• A new configuration to return hyperlink without processing for Microsoft Office and PDF

• Support whitelisting hyperlink for Open Office, PDF, Hancom, JustSystems Ichitaro, Visio, HTA, XDW

• Improve PDF, TXT, Excel, SVG, LNK, HTML, JWW sanitization

• Improve debug log: log location is moved to the engines log folder, support log rotation

v6.0.2

Release date: 2/10/2022

• Enhance stability

• Fix HTML encoding issue

v6.0.1

Release date: 1/10/2022

• Change Blacklist/Whitelist to Blocklist/Allowlist

• Remove unnecessary files in the package

v6.0

Release date: 12/15/2021

• Significant improvement on Linux version:

  • Performance increases 50% in average

  • Add 200+ file type conversions

• Support whitelisting hyperlink for MS Office, RTF, HTML, Calendar file

• Remove BETA label for several file formats

• Support big TIFF, Nikon Raw Image **(**NEF), Hangul Word Processor 2010 Document (HPWX) file format

• Handle more image formats in PDF

• Improve timeout handling

• libgdiplus 6.0.5 or above is required for some file type conversions

v5.14 (Windows Only)

Release date: 11/22/2021

• Improve PNG sanitization to avoid increasing file size

• Enhance RTF/PDF sanitization to handle unexpected cases

• Support new file type conversion: EGG to the other archive file types

v5.14 (Windows Only)

Release date: 10/4/2021

• Support new file types (beta):

  • VDX to VDX, VSX to VSX, VTX to VTX,

  • WebM

• Support MPEG-1 encode in MPEG sanitization

• Remove beta label for several file types, please check the Supported File Types page to see the full beta list

• Better macro handling in MS Office 2007

• Enhance HTML sanitization with specific encoding and non-ASCII characters

v5.13.1

Release date: 8/17/2021

• Handle MPEG-1 encode in MPEG sanitization

• Improve PDF/HTML sanitization to handle corner cases, none standard format.

v5.13

Release date: 7/5/2021

• Remove BETA label for AI, JTDC, HWT, DWT, DWS, WAV, SVG, VCS, ICS, TXT, PPS, XML

• Performance improvement on Linux

• Support strict validation configuration for WAV

• Support new file type: XDW (DocuWorks Image). Customers need to install and active DocuWorks 9 or newer on the system to use this feature

• Several minor bug fixes

• libgomp (Centos), libgomp1 (Ubuntu) is required

v5.12.3 - hotfix

Release date: 6/15/2021

• Fixed the configuration issue when upgrading from Core 4.19.x to Core 4.20.x

v5.12.3

Release date: 6/3/2021

• Support strict validation configuration for MP4/MOV

• Remove BETA label for MP4/MOV

• A new configuration to control image quality for Image sanitization

• Improve PDF sanitization

v5.12.2

Release date: 5/18/2021

• Support MOV sanitization

• A new configuration to control JPEG file size/quality in PDF file

• Improve m4a sanitization

v5.12.1

Release date: 4/27/2021

• Improve XML sanitization performance on Linux: 10x faster

• Fix PDF hang issue

• Better handling Think Cell object in Microsoft Office

v5.12

Release date: 4/8/2021

• End of support Windows 7, 8, and 8.1; Centos 6+; and RedHat 6+

• Recursively sanitize PST (require .NET Core 3.1 or newer to be installed on Linux

• Support new file types: JW CAD (JWW), SXF Feature Comment (SFC), P21 ( STEP Data Model)

• A new configuration to process CDATA in XML

• Improve CSV, DWG sanitization on Linux

v5.11.2

Release date: 3/1/2021

• Improve XLSB sanitization

• Support to remove event attribute in HTML file

• Fix sanitization failure when a TIFF file has unknown custom tags

• Fix compound file corrupted after sanitization

v5.11.1

Release date: 1/27/2021

• Fix a crash issue when sanitizing LNK file

• Fix sanitization failures with some specific XLM, PDF, PNG files.

v.5.11

Release date: 1/11/2021

• Per-file configuration will be available as part of Workflow (requires MD Core 4.20.0 and above)

• Whitelist Macro based on Macro content

• Enhance engine communication on Linux

• Support XLS to CSV conversion

v5.10.3

Release date: 12/07/2020

• Reduce resource usage when sanitizing XML files

• Fix a crash issue when sanitizing Excel files

v5.10.2

Release date: 11/16/2020

• Fixed a hang issue with XLSX sanitization

• Fixed a PDF timeout issue

v5.10.1

Release date: 10/28/2020

• A better way to remove VBA macro in XLS

• Fixed a bug that causes some specific PDF files cannot be opened after sanitizing

• Fixed memory leak issue in MP3 sanitization

v5.10

Release date: 09/28/2020

• Support new file types:

  • Open Office Spreadsheet (ODS, OTS)

  • Open Office Presentation (ODP, OTP)

  • Hangul Word template (HWT)

• Support recursive sanitization for MS Office 2003 (DOC, XLS, PPT) , Open Office (ODT, OTT, ODS, OTS, ODP, OTS) , Rich text format (RTF)

• New configuration to remove JavaScript hyperlink in HTML

• Preserve object thumbnail after removing OLE objects in Office 2003

• Improve Chart object handling in XLSB

• Better hyperlink handling in RTF: remove hyperlinks properly, keep bookmark links

• Improve XFA form sanitization in PDF

• Enhance processing PpAction (mouse over llink and mouse click link) objects in Powerpoint 2007

v5.9.3

Release date: 9/1/2020

• Better handling JSON details

• Improve TXT sanitization

• Better HTML redirection in cases a hyperlink is escaped

• New file type conversion: XLSM to CSV, XLTX to CSV, DOC to RTF, DOCM to RTF, HTML to TXT

v5.9.2

Release date: 8/10/2020

• Support new file types:

  • File type conversions on Linux: PPTX/PPSX/SVG to BMP

  • TIP Test selection engine (TSE, TSEC, TSEZ)

  • WinACE archive format (ACE) conversion to other archive file formats

• Better handling embedded PDF file in MS Excel 2007

• Improve PDF, TIFF, RTF sanitization

v5.9.1

Release date: 7/15/2020

• Hotfix to work with MetaDefender Kiosk Secure Image

v5.9

Release date: 7/7/2020

• Support new file types:

  • Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DCM)

  • AutoCAD Drawing Standards (DWS), AutoCAD Drawing Template (DWT),

  • Microsoft Powerpoint Slide 2007+ (SLDX), Microsoft Office PowerPoint Slide 2007 - Macro-Enabled (SLDM)

  • Windows Shortcut File (LNK)

  • HD Photo (WDP), Google Web Image (WebP)

  • DOC to DOCX, DOT to DOTX conversion

• A new configuration to allow hyperlink redirection in Microsoft Offices, Microsoft Visio documents, Hancom documents, PDF, RTF, ICS, VCS, ODT

• Better timeout handling for Microsoft Office, PDF sanitization

• Improve HWP sanitization: better image handling, separate chart configuration with embedded objects, fix memory leak

• Better handling Tiff images, unused objects, 3D objects in PDF sanitization

v5.8.1

Release date: 5/20/2020

• Support ALZip (ALZ) sanitization

• Support removal of thread comment in Microsoft Excel

• A new configuration to allow zero font in HTML file

• Improve SVG, XML, UTF-16 HTML sanitization

v5.8

Release date: 4/14/2020

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable is a new requirement

• New configurations:

  • A configuration to skip a PDF file with digital signatures

  • A configuration to process a HTML file which has multiple <html> tags in it.

  • A configuration to keep/remove chart in Microsoft Office files

• Support new file types: HTML Application (HTA), Adobe Illustrator (AI), WinRAR (RAR to RAR)

• Improve Microsoft Office sanitization: better file path handling, improve parser performance

• Better PDF timeout handling

• Improve image quality when converting from PDF to TIFF

v5.7.4

Release date: 3/23/2020

• Better handling special signs (",+) in CSV

• Improve hyperlink removal in RTF

v5.7.3

Release date: 3/5/2020

• Handle Meta Refresh tag in HTML

• Better OLE object handling in DOCX

v5.7.2

Release date: 2/18/2020

• Better hyperlink handling in PDF

• Improve embedded font removal in DOCX

• More stable JPG, ICO, CUR sanitization

• Minor changes in configuration UI

v5.7.1

Release date: 1/29/2020

• Fixed compatibility with FIPS compliance

• Better handling PDF/A-2

• New configurations to control image quality in PDF

• Return hyperlink list when choosing "Display hyperlink with domain only" in HTML sanitization

v5.7.0

Release date: 12/26/2019

• New configurations to sanitize hyperlinks in HTML

  • Return hyperlinks without processing them

  • Replace with text

  • Add a prefix URL to hyperlinks

• More details about the sanitized objects for MS Office, PDF, HTML

• New UI Configuration (available in MetaDefender Core 4.17.1 or newer)

• New support file type

  • Icon file format (.ico)

  • Cursor file format (.cur)

  • Hancom Cell (.cell)

  • Hancom Show (.show)

• Improve PDF sanitization speed

• Better disk I/O usage

v5.6.5

Release date: 12/2/2019

• Fixed additional break line when sanitizing HTML

• Better handling metadata removal in Microsoft Office 2007

v5.6.4

Release date: 11/19/2019

• Improve PDF sanitization: betting handling metadata, none standard PDF files

v5.6.3

Release date: 11/7/2019

• Better processing Cross Reference Table ( xref ) in PDF

• Improve multi-threads handling for JTD sanitization

v5.6.2

• Preserve newline character when sanitizing CSV

• Better handling PDF Form with empty decoded data

v5.6.1

• Better handling invalid file structure for TIFF

• Better handling MP3 version 2.5

v5.6.0

• Better handling CSV formulas starting with special characters

• Microsoft Office sanitization improvement

  • Sanitize recursively all supported file types embedded in Microsoft Office 2007 documents

  • Better handling file path when processing

  • Improved invalid file structure detection for DOC

• PDF sanitization improvements:

  • Supported sanitize PDF file generated by Adobe Illustrator

  • Improved PDF form sanitization

• Optimized system resource usage (RAM, I/O)

v5.5.3

• Supported TXT to TXT sanitization

• Introduced new options to process formulas in CSV

• Improved memory usage when sanitizing big HTML files

• Better handling invalid structure JPG files

v5.5.2

• Better resource usage for image processing

• Better disarming process for Microsoft Office sanitization

v5.5.1

• Supported new file types:

  • Text file (TXT)

  • Audio Video Interleave (AVI), Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)

  • Outlook Personal Folder (PST)

• Supported a new configuration to process image link in HTML

• Improved 20% PDF sanitization speed

v5.5.0

• Deep CDR as new name

• Supported new file types:

  • Media file format: MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 (MP3) , Waveform Audio (WAV)

  • Archive file: Cabinet Archive (CAB), ARJ Archive (ARJ), LZH Archive (LZH), LZMA Archive (LZMA)

  • Email file: Outlook Message (MSG)

• Improved XLS/XLSM sanitization: better Macro/VBA handling

• Better embedded object removal for XLSX/PPTX sanitization

• Improved ODT sanitization: remove linked images; hidden text, paragraphs, comments

• Improved Deep CDR details

v5.4.3

• Improved file handling for HTML, CSV, images sanitization

• Improved process management in Linux sanitization

• Better encode handling for RTF sanitization

• Improved logging

v5.4.2

• Better DDE handling for DOCX

• Improved PDF sanitization: better handling MetaData, XFA form, Security setting

• Better temp file handling for JTDC sanitization

v5.4.1

• Improved Linux sanitization stability

• Improved ODT sanitization: font, embedded sheet handling

• Better DDE handling for DOC/XLS/XLT

• Better link handling for DOCX

v5.4.0

• Supported new 26 file formats, more than 100 sanitization types:

  • Video file format: MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4), Windows Media Video (WMV)

  • Email file format: Electronic Mail (EML)

  • Microsoft PowerPoint: Microsoft PowerPoint (97-2003) Show (PPS), Microsoft PowerPoint (97-2003) Template (POT), Microsoft PowerPoint Macro-Enabled Show (PPSM), Microsoft PowerPoint Template (POTX), Microsoft PowerPoint Macro-Enabled Template (POTM),

  • Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel (97-2003) Template (XLT), Microsoft Excel Template (XLTX), Microsoft Excel Macro-Enabled Template (XLTM)

  • Microsoft Visio: Microsoft Visio Drawing (VSDX), Microsoft Visio Macro-Enabled Drawing (VSDM), Microsoft Visio Drawing Stencil (VSSX), Microsoft Visio Template (VSTX), Microsoft Visio Macro-Enabled Template (VSTM), Microsoft Visio Macro-Enabled Stencil ( VSSM), Microsoft Visio Stencil XML file type (VSX), Microsoft XML for Visio Template (VTX), Microsoft Visio XML Drawing (VDX)

  • OpenDocument Document Template (OTT)

  • MIME HTML (MHT)

  • AutoCAD: Drawing Interchange Format (DXF), Design Web Format (DWF)

  • 3D files: Digital Asset Exchange (DAE), 3D Studio (3DS), Universal 3D (U3D), Google Draco (DRC), AVEVA Plant Design Management System Model (RVM)

  • RTF to PDF

• Return forensic info to show which objects were sanitized, removed

• Improved image sanitization speed, memory usage

• Improved PDF sanitization: better error classification, metadata handling, script handling, form handling

• Improved XLS, PPT sanitization: duplicated object handling, macro handling, image handling

• Improved HTML sanitization: handle hyperlink better, preserve content in "pre" tag, remove redundant data

• More stable Linux sanitization for DOCX, PPTX

v5.3.4

• Better handling empty HTML file

• Improved PDF parser to handle file structure better

v5.3.3

• Improved handling hidden content in DOCX sanitization

• Improved ODT sanitization in Linux

v5.3.2

• Improved error message for Microsoft XML Spreadsheet 2003 (.xml) sanitization

• Improved PDF sanitization: XFA form, Metadata parser

v5.3.1

• Enhanced XLS sanitization in case files only contain Macros

• Improved forensic info in HWP sanitization

v5.3.0

• Sanitization of recursively embedded documents in Microsoft Office 2007 documents

• Sanitization of Calendar data files: iCalendar (.ics) & vCalender v1.0 (.vcs)

• Enhanced EMF/WMF sanitization

• Improved image sanitization to prevent advanced steganography attacks

• Extended file support that now includes Ichitaro Document to Compressed format (JTDC), a compressed version of JTD

• Enhanced PDF sanitization functionality, including handling of digital signatures, JavaScript, form fields, and layers

v5.2.12

• Enhanced handling DDE with RTF file type

• Improved handling external objects in Microsoft Office document

• Improved handling Forms in PDF

• Improved error message for password protect documents

v5.2.11

• Enhanced the EMF sanitization inside PPT for Linux

• Improved error messages for invalid file structure in DOC, PPT

• Improved the TIFF sanitization inside PDF

• Better CDATA node handling in HTML sanitization

• Better temp file handling in Microsoft Office 2007 sanitization

v5.2.10

• Better OLE handling for HWP

• Enhance file structure validation for PDF, Microsoft Office

v5.2.9

• Better failure handling for PDF, DOCX sanitization

• Enhanced Microsoft Office sanitization: remove more linked objects, control stream.

v5.2.8

• Improved PPT sanitization speed

• Improved CSV sanitization speed in Linux

• Improved WMF/EMF sanitization to prevent device independent bitmap (DIB) copy vulnerability (CVE-2017-0190) and buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2005-2123, CVE-2005-2124)

• Improved forensic info and error message

v5.2.7

• Sanitization detail is available on MetaDefender Core REST API (version 4.12.1 and newer) (Beta)

• Improved WMF/EMF sanitization to prevent code execution

• Improved WMF/EMF sanitization for images inside document files

• Support Windows Metafile (WMF), Enhanced Metafile (EMF), Microsoft Visio Drawing (VSDX, VSDM) sanitization on Linux (Beta)

• Better embedded object handling for Microsoft Office file types

• Supported external media objects removal for PPT sanitization

• Better removing PDF metadata

• Improved HTML sanitization speed on Linux

• Added performance report for Linux

v5.2.6

• Enhanced steganography sanitization for PNG

v5.2.5

• Support Windows Metafile (WMF), Enhanced Metafile (EMF) sanitization on Windows (Beta)

• Better non-standard objects handling for PDF

• Enhanced HWP sanitization: content, image handling.

v5.2.4

• Improved Microsoft Office sanitization speed on Linux

• Improved PDF sanitization speed on Linux

• Improved HWP sanitization speed on Linux

• Improved JTD sanitization speed on Linux

v5.2.3

• Supported Microsoft Visio Drawing (VSDX, VSDM) sanitization on Windows (Beta)

• Improved hyperlink sanitization for HTML

• Improved hyperlink sanitization for HWP

v5.2.2

• Supported external media objects removal for PPTX/PPSX sanitization

• Improved hidden text removal for DOCX/DOTX sanitization

v5.2.1

• Fixed the issue of loading customized configuration on a 64bit system

• Handle NULL character in content for HTML to HTML sanitization

• Preserve UTF-8 BOM encoding for CSV sanitization

v5.2.0

• Handle big file size sanitization on Windows

• Improved PPSX sanitization: better OLE object, Command handling

• Improved file size with Microsoft Office files contain EMF/WMF images

• On Linux, additional file types support: DOCM2DOCM, DOTM2DOTM, DOTX2DOTX, XLS2XLS, XLSM2XLSM, XLSB2SXLSB, PPT2PPT, PPSX2PPSX, PPTM2PPTM, RTF2RTF, HTML2HTML, WMF2JPG, XML-DOC2PDF, XML-XLS2PDF, XML-DOCX2PDF, JTD2JTD, HWP2HWP, DWG2DWG

v5.1.20

• Fixed XML, SVG sanitization issue

v5.1.19

• Enhanced Linux CDR performance

• Supported more file types in Linux CDR: XML2XML, SVG2SVG, DOT2DOT, GIF2GIF

v5.1.18

• Removed Linux BETA label

• Improved HWP sanitization: better image handling, stream processing.

• Fixed HTML sanitization issue when sanitizing links, scripts

v5.1.17

• Increased HWP sanitization speed

• Handling missing fonts for DOC sanitization on Linux

• Handling attachment removal for PDF with non-standard format

• Better handling of temporary files for DOCX, PPTX, XLSX sanitization

v5.1.16

• Fixed moniker type issue in PPT

• Fixed some handling embedded font in PDF

v5.1.15

• Improved Linux sanitization for DOCX

• Added support iso-2022-jp for HTML sanitization

• Enhanced CSV sanitization

• Enhanced PNG sanitization inside Microsoft Office documents

v5.1.14

• Enhanced Macro removal for AutoCAD (Beta)

• Adding support additional potentially malicious objects in DOCX

• Supported none Unicode encoding for HTML sanitization

• Enhanced sanitization of some non-standard format PDF

• Enhanced sanitization of some non-standard format RTF

v5.1.13

• Supported SVG to SVG sanitization (Beta)

• Adding support additional Potentially Malicious Objects (PMO) object types in PPTX

• Adding support additional PMO object types in XLSM

• Improve handling file structure integrity with a specific DOCX type

v5.1.12

• Enhanced PPTX, PDF sanitization

• Better handling of temporary files for image sanitization

v5.1.11

• Supported AutoCAD (Beta)

• Introduced new type of process_hyperlink_behavior for HTML

• Enhanced PPT sanitization

• Fixed bug on PDF sanitization: inverted colors in Linux, remove_form, ...

• Fixed image sanitization failure on Linux

• Fixed embedded object removal for JTD

v5.1.10

• Updated omsFileTypeConversion.exe icon for rebrand

• Fixed JTD sanitization lost images and objects

• Fixed bugs on Microsoft Office files: DDE, Macro,...

• Handled OLE Link for Microsoft Office files

v5.1.9

• Improved Linux sanitization

• Fixed bugs on PDF sanitization: corrupted files, crashed

• Distinguished Generic XML and Microsoft Office XML sanitization

v5.1.8

• Fixed bugs on PDF and DOCM sanitization

v5.1.7

• process_tag in HTML configuration was changed to process_hyperlink_behavior, default value is 1

• Removed metadata in RTF file

• Enhanced JPG, PDF, HTML sanitization

v5.1.6

• Supported DDE sanitization for DOC, XLS and CSV file format

• Enhanced sanitization on ODT file format

• Enhanced DLP support for DOC and DOCX sanitization (hidden text)

• Enhanced Microsoft Office 2007 file format (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) sanitization (comment, revision)

• Enhanced stabilization for HTML, XLS and PPTX file format

• Enhanced validation for HTML and RTF file format

v5.1.5

• Improved PDF sanitization (reduced sanitized file size, optimized image processing time in PDF,...)

• Supported ODT sanitization (for both Windows and Linux)

• Improved JPG sanitization (reduced processing time)

v5.1.4

• Supported DDE sanitization for DOCX and XLSX file format

v5.1.3

• Enhanced metadata sanitization for Microsoft Office 2007 file format ( Title, Subject, Comments, Author, Last Modified By, Company, Modified Date)

• Improved TIFF to TIFF sanitization

v5.1.2

• Improved DOC, PDF, HTML sanitization for validation

• Supported Form object sanitization in PDF

v5.1.1

• Supported metadata sanitization for Microsoft Office 2003 file format (DOC, XLS, PPT)