IronWord Changelog & Features
IronWord Roadmap
At IronWord, we go beyond providing a simple Word DOCx library; we offer a comprehensive toolkit meticulously crafted by engineers, for engineers. Our focus extends beyond mere functionality; we strive to deliver a seamless experience, empowering you to effortlessly integrate Word document processing capabilities into your .NET projects.
Rest assured; with IronWord, our unwavering commitment to quality ensures reliability and performance, allowing you to concentrate on building exceptional applications.
But that's just the beginning. We take immense pride in our community engagement. Your feedback shapes our roadmap, guiding us as we prioritize feature requests based on your needs. Your input fuels our innovation, guaranteeing that IronWord evolves in harmony with your development goals.
Join us on this journey as we persistently innovate, collaborate, and enhance the Word document processing experience within the .NET ecosystem.
April 2026
IronWord v2026.4.1
Release Notes
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Updates internal dependencies.
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Fixed placeholder replacement failure when DOCX documents contain proofErr, bookmarks, or revision tracking markers that split text into multiple runs.
- Introduced a new
AddRunmethod to enable run creation at multiple levels, along with support for accessing runs viaWordDocument,DocumentSection, andParagraph. - Adds ability to set text style through a
TextContentobject.
March 2026
IronWord v2026.3.1
Release Notes
- Updates internal dependencies.
February 2026
IronWord v2026.2.1
Release Notes
- Updates internal dependencies.
January 2026
IronWord v2026.1.4
Release Notes
- Adds ability to convert DOCX to PDF with
WordDocument.ToPdf(). Requires IronPDF to work. WARNING: This is experimental functionality. It is expected to improve in the future. -
Adds ability to add basic styling to tables and table cells.
- Fixes
ShapeContentpoints not updating when modifyingShapeContent. - Fixes inherited styles from Word document objects not inheriting properly.
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Fixes
ShapeContentandImageContentnot properly retrieving position information from Word documents. - Updates internal dependencies.
December 2025
IronWord v2025.12.1
Release Notes
- Updates internal dependencies.
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Moves
DocumentSectionto be at the top of the document object model hierarchy. - Fixes issue where adding a section to a document throws an
ArgumentException.
November 2025
IronWord v2025.11.29
Release Notes
- Updates internal dependencies.
October 2025
IronWord v2025.10.8
Release Notes
-
Updates internal dependencies.
- Fixes a bug where
ExtractImagescould not detect images on some .docx files. - Fixes a bug where adding texts right after adding tables led to the texts being added to the table instead of a new paragraph.
September 2025
IronWord v2025.9.6
Release Notes
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto 2025.9.2.
August 2025
IronWord v2025.8.17
Release Notes
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto 2025.8.1.
July 2025
IronWord v2025.7.13
Release Notes
Updates IronSoftware.System.Drawing to 2025.7.12.
- Fixes an issue where loading some docx file would throw an error of
Error in implicit conversion. Cannot convert null object. - Fixes an issue with loading docx files that contain custom style group.
- Fixes an issue with
OpenXMLdependency version conflicts when users install IronWord alongside their ownOpenXMLreferences.
June 2025
IronWord v2025.6.4
Release Notes
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto 2025.6.2.
May 2025
IronWord v2025.5.3
Release Notes
- Fixes issue where adding images to a document was not working correctly.
- Fixes issue when opening several documents consecutively.
- Added
ExtractImages()for recursively retrieving all images contained within a document. - Added
ExtractShapes()for recursively retrieving all shapes contained within a document. - Added
Remove()for removing a given text object from a document. - Added
FindText()for finding a text object (associated with the specified text) within a document.
April 2025
IronWord v2025.4.3
Release Notes
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto 2025.3.6.
March 2025
IronWord v2025.3.10
Release Notes
- Fixes issue where font size properties would return half of the expected value.
- Fixes issue where elements using inherited styles would not return inherited style properties.
- Fixes high priority issue where adding or modifying text of a document would not appear on the document.
- Fixes support for shorthand version of some theme colors (e.g. 'lt1', 'dk1', etc.).
- Fixes various exceptions when opening or saving a document.
- Adds
DefaultTextStyleproperty to many classes which may contain text. - Adds
ExtractText()andReplaceText()methods to many classes which may contain text. - Adds
WordDocument(byte[])constructor which allows users to open a document from a byte array. - Improves
WordDocument.Save()to now return a byte array of the DOCUMENT. - Returns correct RGBA values associated with the Theme Color.
- Obsoletes
TextandImageclass to useTextContentandImageContent, respectively.
February 2025
IronWord v2025.2.15
Release Notes
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.DrawingDependency to 2025.1.6.
January 2025
IronWord v2025.1.2
Release Notes
- Updated dependency packages to address known security vulnerabilities.
December 2024
IronWord v2024.12.2
Release Notes
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.DrawingDependency to 2024.12.3
November 2024
IronWord v2024.11.2
Release Notes
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.DrawingDependency to 2024.9.15
October 2024
IronWord v2024.10.2
Release Notes
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.DrawingDependency to 2024.9.11
September 2024
IronWord v2024.9.1
Release Notes
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto version 2024.9.10
August 2024
IronWord v2024.8.3
Release Notes
- Fixes issue of being unable to load word documents that have text color set to "auto".
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.DrawingDependency to 2024.8.1
July 2024
IronWord v2024.7.1
Release Notes
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto version 2024.7.2.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- Adding shapes corrupts documents.
- Background color cannot be applied to tables.
June 2024
IronWord v2024.6.1
Release Notes
- Introduces new API for comprehensive text and paragraph styling.
- Adds ability to set and customize underlines, shadows, reflections, gradients, glows, outlines, and 3D effects onto text.
- Adds ability to set paragraph spacing, alignment, and indentation.
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto version 2024.6.1.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- Adding shapes corrupts documents.
- Background color cannot be applied to tables.
May 2024
IronWord v2024.5.8
Release Notes
- Minor Bug Fixes
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto version 2024.5.1
April 2024
IronWord v2024.4.1
Release Notes
- Updates
PageSetupAPI - Adds new paper size enums (A5, Letter, Legal)
- Adds ability to set custom paper size
- Adds ability to set page orientation
- Adds ability to add sections into word documents
- Fixes bug where setting text color throws an exception
- Fixes bug where table cells were not being merged together when
MergeCellsmethod was called - Adds ability to add text and images to a table cell directly, without having to add them to a paragraph
- Adds ability to set the layout of tables
March 2024
IronWord v2024.3.5
Release Notes
- Updates
PageSetupAPI - Adds new paper size enums (A5, Letter, Legal)
- Adds ability to set custom paper size
- Adds ability to set page orientation
- Adds ability to add sections into word documents
- Fixes bug where setting text color throws an exception
- Fixes bug where table cells were not being merged together when
MergeCellsmethod was called - Adds ability to add text and images to a table cell directly, without having to add them to a paragraph
- Adds ability to set the layout of tables
January 2024
IronWord v2024.1.2
Release Notes
- First Release of IronWord!
- Supported environments include Windows (10+, Server 2016+), Linux (Ubuntu, Debian,
CentOS, etc.), iOS (12+), Android API 21+ ('Lollipop' v5), Docker (Windows, Linux, Azure), Azure (VPS,WebApp, Function), and AWS (EC2, Lambda). - Supported .NET project types are Web (Blazor &
WebForms), Mobile (Xamarin & MAUI), Desktop (WPF & MAUI), and Console (App & Library).
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