introducing an official JasperReports Maven Plugin for compiling, decompiling and updating
report design files (groupId: net.sf.jasperreports, artifactId: jasperreports-maven-plugin);

improved performance of the Ant tasks for compiling, decompiling and updating report design
files by implementing multi-threading support;... read more

support for proportional table column resize using negative weight values convention;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

add deserialization class filter to fix the CVE-2025-10492 security vulnerability;

new net.sf.jasperreports.export.docx.size.page.to.content export configuration property
added to support variable DOCX page size;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

added support for horizontalPosition and shrinkWidth properties to table component and weight
property to table columns to better control table resize behavior when table columns are hidden or resized.

various dependencies upgrades including: Spring 6.2.3, Apache Batik 1.18,
Apache Commons Codec 1.18.0, Apache Commons IO 2.18.0, Apache Commons Logging 1.3.5,
Apache Log4J 2.24.3, Apache Commons Collections 4.5.0 and Apache POI 5.4.1; ... read more

added support for horizontalPosition and shrinkWidth properties to table component and weight
property to table columns to better control table resize behavior when table columns are hidden or resized.

removed the Google Maps component, the Chrome server side rendering of Javascript visualizations extension,
the interactivity extension as well as the PL/SQL and Oracle stored procedure query executer;... read more

various dependencies upgrades including: Jackson 2.17.1, RequireJS 2.3.7, Apache POI 5.3.0
and Apache Xalan 2.7.3;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

added automatic module names to manifest files and fixed split packages issues in preparation for
Java 9 modules compliance;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

removal of the Ant build system and replacing it with a Maven build system;

deprecated code removed;

breaking backward compatibility of serialized/compiled .jasper report template files,
mostly because of historical deprecated serialization code removal/cleanup mentioned above
(source .jrxml report templates need to be recompiled to *.jasper using the new version of
the library);... read more

allow background section elements to be exported as page header content in the DOCX exporter
so that watermark type effects could be achieved;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

added support for PDF/A-2a, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-2u, PDF/A-3a, PDF/A-3b, PDF/A-3u;

added support for WEBP images;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

optional style expression added to report elements in addition to their existing static style
reference property to allow for more flexible and dynamic styling scenarios;

new IS_EVEN_ROW and IS_EVEN_COLUMN boolean built-in variables available in crosstabs to help
with alternate row/column styling of crosstab cells;... read more

added support for multiple marker series in the Google map component, with ability to show/hide
each series through an interactive legend and ability to bring the map to its initial visual state
using a custom reset button;

introducing expression backed custom properties at report part level to allow attaching metadata to
parts in multi-part documents, to be leveraged during report output post-processing by the parent application;... read more

XLSX metadata exporter added to produce pure data output in the modern Excel file format
(similar to pre-existing XLS and CSV metadata exporters);

optimizations and improvements made in the XLSX exporter to allow skipping time consuming
text measuring routines during the report filling process and produce the output document
faster when the Excel format is the main (if not the only) export target;... read more

enhancing scriptlet configuration using scriptlet level expression based custom properties;

added support for conditional styles in external style template files (*.jrtx);

various dependencies upgrades including: Spring 5.3.20, Jackson 2.13.3,
Chrome DevTools Java Client 4.0.0 and Apache Commons Codec 1.15;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

replaced Joda-Time with Java 8 Date/Time API in the functions extension;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

improved bulleted and numbered list support in styled text and HTML markup text fields including
better indentation and support for nested lists;

support for accessible HTML output using semantic tags for marking up headings (h1 to h6),
bulleted and numbered lists, alternate text for images and nested table tags for semantic tables;... read more

new CSV export configuration property available to allow to escaping formulas in CSV exports;

various dependencies upgrades including Apache Ant 1.10.11, Apache Commons Compress 1.21
and Bouncy Castle 1.68;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

allow generic element HTML export handlers to export generic elements as images
or any other built-in element type;

new custom property to control the HTML exporting of custom visualization components as images;

minor bug fixes and improvements;