# Poppler poppler-26.04.0

- Product: Poppler (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/poppler)
- Vendor: freedesktop.org
- Date: 2026-04-01
- Original notes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/tags/poppler-26.04.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/poppler/releases/2026-04-01-poppler-26.04.0
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poppler 26.04.0

- **fixed** — PngEmbedder memory leak on longjmp.
- **changed** — Splash: Improve knockout groups rendering.
- **fixed** — Gfx: Skip empty Form XObject's.
- **fixed** — qt: inverted continuation rect in performMultipleTextSearch.
- **changed** — Port damaged xref stream support from xpdf 4.03.
- **fixed** — Crash on broken and malformed files.
- **fixed** — glib: crash on nullptr dates.
- **removed** — Unused expertEncoding.