IronXL for Python Changelog & Updates
IronXL for Python Roadmap
IronXL for Python was created to make it easy for developers to read and create XLS, XLSX, and CSV files in Python. IronXL for Python is leading the charge to empower developers to edit Excel files in Python, without the need for Office Interop. Today, our team is focused on further advancing IronXL for Python by prioritizing feedback from our developer community. Build releases are happening on a monthly basis, with new functionality making IronXL for Python the preferred choice for many developers.
Long term, we plan to launch IronXL for multiple programming languages. Early stage R&D is in progress for building further MS Office products for Word, PowerPoint, and the further Microsoft Office Suite.
July 2026
IronXL for Python v2026.7.0.2
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2026.7.0.2
Release Notes
- Added support for extracting and accessing PDF Optional Content Groups (OCG/layers), including layer hierarchy, visibility, and object-level layer metadata
- Added
ChromePdfRenderOptions.CssPageRulePolicyand header/footer overlap detection options to improve margin handling and prevent content overlap when rendering or modifying PDFs - Enhanced PDF scanning reliability by removing shellcode hash-based detection rules that could cause inconsistent false-positive results
- Enhanced render timeout handling by detecting stalled PDF generation operations and returning clearer, more actionable error messages
- Fixed engine stability issues that could cause orphaned browser processes, unexpected crashes, and rendering failures under heavy load or constrained CPU environments
- Fixed an issue where PDF redaction could leave partial-character artifacts or remove excess content due to inaccurate text bounding boxes
- Fixed an issue where
ImageToPdfConverter.ImageToPdfcould generate blank PDFs for image filenames containing both spaces and multiple dots - Fixed an issue where multi-page TIFF conversion did not preserve per-page orientation and resolution for mixed-orientation PDFs
- Fixed an issue where
Cleaner.SanitizeWithSvgcould add an extra page and corrupt non-ASCII text in sanitized PDFs - Fixed an issue where PDF signature timestamps could display an incorrect timezone offset during daylight saving time (DST)
- Updated internal dependencies
June 2026
IronXL for Python v2026.6.0.1
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2026.6.0.1
Release Notes
- Added support for 40+ modern Excel
_xlfn.*functions, improvingEvaluateAll()compatibility with Microsoft 365 workbooks - Updated internal dependencies
Known issues
Range.Value = <python int>stores an empty string instead of the integer (formulas reading the cell resolve to 0). UseIntValueor a Python float as a workaround; .NET is unaffected.
May 2026
IronXL for Python v2026.5.0.1
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2026.5.0.1
Release Notes
- Reduced peak memory usage during XLSX loading by 65–80%, improving reliability for large files in constrained environments
- Updated internal dependencies
April 2026
IronXL for Python v2026.4.0.1
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2026.4.0.1
Release Notes
Fixed extremely slow style application on large spreadsheets (now 25-393x faster). Operations that previously took minutes on 500K+ cell ranges now complete in milliseconds.
March 2026
IronXL for Python v2026.3.0.1
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2026.3.0.1
Release Notes
Updates internal dependencies
February 2026
IronXL for Python v2026.2.0.1
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2026.2.0.1
Release Notes
Updates internal dependencies.
January 2026
IronXL for Python v2026.1.0.1
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2026.1.0.1
December 2025
IronXL for Python v2025.12.0.3
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2025.12.0.3
September 2025
IronXL for Python v2025.9.0.1
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/ironxl/
Release Notes
Updates
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto version 2025.9.3.
August 2025
IronXL for Python v2025.8.0.3
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/ironxl/
Release Notes
Updates
Updates IronSoftware.System.Drawing to 2025.8.1.
July 2025
IronXL for Python v2025.7.0.15
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/ironxl/
Release Notes
Updates
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto version 2025.7.2.
June 2025
IronXL for Python v2025.6.0.2
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2025.6.0.2
Release Notes
Updates
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto 2025.6.2.
Bug Fixes
- Fixes an issue where the
LastFilledCellproperty incorrectly returned null for worksheets with sparse data.- Fixes an issue whereCreateNamedTablecorrupts Excel file when adding tables to different sheets.
May 2025
IronXL for Python v2025.5.0.4
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2025.5.0.4
Release Notes
New Features
Updates:
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto version 2025.5.2.- UpdatesIronSoftware.Commonto version 2025.3.1.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixes an issue where
Rows.Lengthreturns an incorrect value when used with Excel files containing more than 500 rows.
April 2025
IronXL for Python v2025.4.0.5
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2025.4.0.5
Release Notes
New Features:
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto version 2025.3.6.- UpdatesIronSoftware.Commonto version 2025.3.1.
March 2025
IronXL for Python v2025.3.0.1
Features & Upgrades https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2025.3.0.1
Release Notes
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto version 2025.3.5.- UpdatesIronSoftware.Commonto version 2025.2.3.
February 2025
IronXL for Python v2025.2.0.5
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2025.2.0.5
Release Notes
- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawinto version 2025.1.6.
January 2025
IronXL for Python v2025.1.0.1
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2025.1.0.1
Release Notes
- Updated
IronSoftware.Commonto 2024.11.4.- Updated dependency packages to address known security vulnerabilities. - Fixed an issue where loading and saving
.xlsmfiles threw exceptions. - Fixed an issue where loading Excel files caused an "equivalent part names" exception.
- Fixed an issue where adding rows broke formulas.
- Fixed an issue where loading Excel files with invalid data validation threw exceptions.
- Fixed an issue where setting the number format caused the generated HTML font color to be white.
November 2024
IronXL for Python v2024.11.16
Features & Upgrades https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2024.11.16
Release Notes
- Updated
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto 2024.9.15. - Updated
IronSoftware.Commonto 2024.9.38. - Added support for switching column direction to right-to-left. Useful for languages such as Arabic, Chinese, and Hebrew.
- Added methods for setting tab colors with
SetWorksheetTabColorandSetWorksheetTabColorIndex. - Added the
RemoveHyperlinkmethod to remove hyperlinks from cells. - Fixed an issue where accessing a cell's hyperlink threw a Null Reference Exception if the cell didn't have one.
- Fixed an issue where accessing file-type hyperlinks in XLS files return empty string.
- Fixed an issue where the
ToDataTablemethod did not accurately compute all data types.
September 2024
IronXL for Python v2024.9.1.3
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2024.9.1.3
Release Notes
- Minor Bug Fixes
August 2024
IronXL for Python v2024.8.0.5
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2024.8.0.5
Release Notes
- Minor Bug Fixes
July 2024
IronXL for Python v2024.7.0.1
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2024.7.0.1
Release Notes
- Minor Bug Fixes
June 2024
IronXL for Python v2024.6.0.1
Features & Upgrades https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2024.6.0.1
Release Notes
- Minor Bug Fixes
April 2024
IronXL for Python v2024.5.0.5
Features & Upgrades https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2024.5.0.5
Release Notes
- Minor Bug Fixes- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto version 2024.5.1
IronXL for Python v2024.4.0.4
Features & Upgrades
https://pypi.org/project/IronXL/2024.4.0.4
Release Notes
- Fixes a bug where a "shared" formula (the kind that is copied across multiple cells) would be lost when saving a file.- Updates
IronSoftware.System.Drawingto version 2024.4.1






