# Changelog: Updates and Roadmap
## Concept and Philosophy
IronSecureDoc was created to make it easy for developers to securely manage and manipulate PDF documents through a self-hosted RESTful API.
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IronSecureDoc is leading the charge to empower developers to apply document security measures such as encryption, redaction, and digital signatures, all within their own infrastructure, eliminating the need for third-party services and expensive ongoing cloud costs.
Today, our team is focused on further advancing IronSecureDoc by prioritizing feedback from our developer community, ensuring that the product evolves to meet real-world needs.
Build releases are happening with new functionality making IronSecureDoc the preferred choice for many developers who need robust and secure document management capabilities.
Long term, we plan to expand IronSecureDoc's capabilities to support additional document formats and security features. Early stage R&D is in progress for building further integrations and tools to enhance the document security ecosystem.
## The Roadmap 2024 - 2025
This solution's future is entirely industry and customer-driven. All feedback is encouraged to ensure meaningful and useful updates are coming to subscribed customers. That being said, the current roadmap for 2024-2025 is as follows:
**More Document Formats than just PDF**
- Accepting input documents from image, and other MS Office file formats
- Images: `.png`, `.jpg`, `.svg`, `.tiff`
- MS Office: `.docx`, `.ppt`
**Better Extraction through use of OCR**
- Sometimes extracting embedded text is not enough. We want options to extract text from images too.
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## 2024 Releases
<h3>IronSecureDoc Latest: 2024.10.1</h3>
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<Changelog version="2024.10.1" date="October 1st, 2024" apiRef={false} />
#### Release Notes
- Adds `pdfs/sign` endpoint, allowing the use of handwritten signatures.
<h3>IronSecureDoc 2024.9.1</h3>
<Changelog version="2024.9.1" date="September 3rd, 2024" apiRef={false} />
#### Release Notes
- Improved logging with better formatting.
- Adds `pdfs/verify-signatures` endpoint.
- Adds `pdfs/verify-password` endpoint.
- Minor bug fixes.
<h3>IronSecureDoc 2024.8.2</h3>
<Changelog version="2024.8.2" date="Aug 20th, 2024" apiRef={false} />
#### Initial Public Release:
- Quality of Life (QOL) improvements.
<h3>IronSecureDoc 2024.8.1</h3>
<Changelog version="2024.8.1" date="July 22nd, 2024" apiRef={false} />
#### Initial Public Release:
- Redaction, Certification, Extraction, and Encryption available with API v1.
IronSecureDoc was created to make it easy for developers to securely manage and manipulate PDF documents through a self-hosted RESTful API.
IronSecureDoc is leading the charge to empower developers to apply document security measures such as encryption, redaction, and digital signatures, all within their own infrastructure, eliminating the need for third-party services and expensive ongoing cloud costs.
Today, our team is focused on further advancing IronSecureDoc by prioritizing feedback from our developer community, ensuring that the product evolves to meet real-world needs.
Build releases are happening with new functionality making IronSecureDoc the preferred choice for many developers who need robust and secure document management capabilities.
Long term, we plan to expand IronSecureDoc's capabilities to support additional document formats and security features. Early stage R&D is in progress for building further integrations and tools to enhance the document security ecosystem.
The Roadmap 2024 - 2025
This solution's future is entirely industry and customer-driven. All feedback is encouraged to ensure meaningful and useful updates are coming to subscribed customers. That being said, the current roadmap for 2024-2025 is as follows:
More Document Formats than just PDF
Accepting input documents from image, and other MS Office file formats
Images: .png, .jpg, .svg, .tiff
MS Office: .docx, .ppt
Better Extraction through use of OCR
Sometimes extracting embedded text is not enough. We want options to extract text from images too.
