Version 11.12.0 Changelog (2026-04-01)

WebViewer Core

New

Digital Signatures

  • Added new API AnnotationManager.sign and event digitalSignatureApplied.

DOCX Editor

  • Added new CommentManager APIs: getComments, addCommentThreadAtCurrentRange, addCommentReply, setCommentMessage, deleteComment.

Spreadsheet Editor

  • Added the ability to view XLSX files with existing standard charts.
  • Added the ability to edit and save chart values in edit mode.

Fixes

Annotations

  • Added a check on the type of input for the API AnnotationManager.setCurrentUser to prevent issues related to false input type.
  • Fixed an issue where opening the notes panel and deleting the last page with an annotation would crash the notes panel.
  • Fixed an issue where certain annotation appearances could not render when imported while using WebViewer Server.
  • Fixed an issue when creating a stamp signature with the current user set to null or undefined.

Forms

  • Fixed an issue where read only checkboxes in the "checked" state were hard to read.
  • Fixed an issue where checkbox widgets would not appear to be checked when there was appearance data.

General

  • Fixed a bug where the document was disappearing when loading the same document after setting it to page by page.
  • Fixed an issue with PDFNet APIs throwing errors when imported twice or if disposing and recreating WebViewer.
  • Fixed an issue where adding a new watermark would apply it to the document at the same time.
  • Fixed an issue with rendering some files with bad OCG data.

Spreadsheet Editor

  • Enforced view-only mode when license did not include spreadsheet editor permission.

WebViewer UI

New

DOCX Editor

  • Added Strikeout text style button to the default UI configuration.
  • Added comment panel and toggle button to the default UI.
  • Added comment highlight annotations.

MultiViewer

  • Hid form field indicators while in MultiViewer.
  • Added MultiViewerMode support to the layers panel.
  • Added MultiViewerMode support to the digital signatures panel.

Fixes

Annotations

  • Fixed an issue where the inline comment popup would remain open even when the annotation was outside the viewport.
  • Fixed an issue in MultiViewerMode where toggling auto-size font on a FreeText annotation would incorrectly update the annotation manager of the wrong document viewer.

DOCX Editor

  • Fixed an issue where Tracked Changes were not sorted properly with the 'Position' sort option.

General

  • Fixed an issue where the Search Panel results were announced by screen readers as a grid instead of a list.
  • Fixed an issue with deleting and editing note replies.
  • Fixed an issue where the tooltip wasn't rendering on top of the buttons in the multi-select footer.
  • Fixed an issue where the multi-select footer wasn't anchored to the bottom of the notes panel.
  • Fixed an issue where keyboard shortcuts were unusable while the focus was within panels in web component mode.

MultiViewer

  • Fixed an issue where the viewer went to a bad state if a user tried to start zoom sync with only one document loaded.
  • Defaulted to View Ribbon when switching out of MultiViewer.
  • Fixed an issue where a newly loaded document would have a different display mode than the document in the other viewer in MultiViewer.
  • Fixed an issue where multi-selected notes in the second viewer did not point to their respective annotations from the notes panel as is the case in the first viewer.
  • Fixed an issue where adding a new note to the second viewer did not open the notes panel as it does in the first viewer.
  • Fixed issues with touch gestures not working on mobile devices in MultiViewer mode.
  • Fixed an issue where the annotation content overlay would not render in all viewers.

Spreadsheet Editor

  • Fixed an issue where spreadsheet search results could become stale after sheet changes such as unhiding or deleting sheets.
  • Fixed an issue where input did not retain focus when renaming sheets.
  • Updated default name for new sheets.

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