# Poppler poppler-26.01.0

- Product: Poppler (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/poppler)
- Vendor: freedesktop.org
- Date: 2026-01-06
- Original notes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/tags/poppler-26.01.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/poppler/releases/2026-01-06-poppler-26.01.0
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poppler 26.01.0

- **added** — Support for de-facto standard annotation icons.
- **added** — Poppler::Page can dump text in reading order via Qt API.
- **added** — JSInfo fuzzing support.
- **changed** — Annot API changed to return vector directly instead of using getCount/get methods.
- **changed** — parseDA/tokenizeDA now return std::optional instead of -1 on error.
- **changed** — Stream::reset() renamed to Stream::rewind().
- **changed** — TextWord::getText now returns std::unique_ptr<std::string>.
- **changed** — Splash blending modes extended with 4 new modes for mono1/8.
- **fixed** — AnnotInk no longer crashes when ExtGState is an empty dict.
- **fixed** — TextOutputDev fixes for erroneous newline on flipped pages and text line sorting, infinite loop in HorizontalTextLayouter, and uninitialized memory use in tokBufSize.
- **fixed** — JBIG2Stream robustness improvements including EOF detection and faster failure on broken files.
- **fixed** — StructTreeRoot::parseNumberTreeNode protected against recursion.
- **fixed** — FormWidgetSignature ensures V key is created in Field dict and FormField no longer mistakenly adds Widget child as non-terminal Field.
- **removed** — OPI_SUPPORT and TEXTOUT_WORD_LIST cmake options removed.
- **removed** — Deprecated time functions with Y2K38 problem removed from C++ API.
- **removed** — EmbedStream rewind and restore methods removed.
- **removed** — GooString::lowerCase() function removed.
- **removed** — grealloc_checkoverflow function and free_p parameter removed.
- **security** — Fixed bit shift that could shift more than 32 bits.