# Poppler poppler-26.05.0

- Product: Poppler (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/poppler)
- Vendor: freedesktop.org
- Date: 2026-05-03
- Original notes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/tags/poppler-26.05.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/poppler/releases/2026-05-03-poppler-26.05.0
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poppler 26.05.0

- **removed** — PSOutputDev: Remove "pipe as filename" feature
- **added** — pdftotext: Add -remove-hyphens option to control end-of-line hyphen handling
- **fixed** — Protect against integer overflow in broken files, fix crash on broken files, limit form hierarchy depth, and limit Link parseAction recursion depth to avoid stack overflow
- **fixed** — Fix memory leak when parsing fails in FoFiType1C::buildEncoding
- **changed** — PSOutputDev: respect pre-existing PageSize policy in pdfSetup
- **changed** — glib: add a lock in PopplerPage to make TextPage computation thread-safe
- **fixed** — pdftotext: do not abort on empty strings
- **changed** — Be more liberal in space definition in bad xrefs
- **fixed** — Check that the optional certificate version is present before decoding it
- **changed** — Lock Page mutex when loading annots