BentoPDF Release Notes

Dad Joke of the Release

Where do cats go to get a new tail? A retail store 🤣

⚠️ Breaking Changes This release moves away from bundling AGPL-licensed libraries such as PyMuPDF, Ghostscript, and CoherentPDF. If your workflow depends on these tools, you’ll now need to configure them manually via the Advanced Settings.

You can supply your own compatible versions of these libraries, as long as they conform to the expected interfaces and formats. This change was made to improve flexibility and maintain a clear separation of concerns.

The simple tutorial can be found here: Tutorial and the docs have been updated to reflect the same.

What's New

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1. PDF Editor Tool

• Download button added to the PDF Editor tool - you can now save your edited PDFs with all annotations, redactions, and form data baked in.
• Multi-document tabs - open multiple PDFs at once in the editor and switch between them with tabs.
• Link Support - you can now add internal and external page links

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2. Kubernetes Deployment

• Helm chart added for Kubernetes deployment - Thanks @spwoodcock ! ❤️
• Deploy BentoPDF on your cluster with a single helm install.

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3. New Language Support

• Dutch (Nederlands) - Thanks @Stephan-P! ❤️
• Belarusian (Беларуская) - Thanks @pavel-miniutka! ❤️ …

What's New

As mentioned earlier, we had lost access of our bentopdf dockerhub account. Docker Hub support team we still not able to resolve it for 10 days. So we've migrated our Docker Hub account The old bentopdf/bentopdf images are no longer maintained by us. The new official account for bentopdf is bentopdfteam/bentopdf

What to Use Now

Recommended - GitHub Container Registry:

docker run -p 3000:8080 ghcr.io/alam00000/bentopdf:latest

Alternative - New Docker Hub:

docker run -p 3000:8080 bentopdfteam/bentopdf:latest

Migration Guide

Old (Do Not Use)	New (Use This)
bentopdf/bentopdf	ghcr.io/alam00000/bentopdf (recommended)
bentopdf/bentopdf	bentopdfteam/bentopdf (alternative)
bentopdf/bentopdf-simple	ghcr.io/alam00000/bentopdf-simple
bentopdf/bentopdf-simple	bentopdfteam/bentopdf-simple

New Features in This Release

• Podman Support - All Docker commands now work with Podman
• Podman Quadlet - Run BentoPDF as a systemd service on Linux
• GHCR as Primary - GitHub Container Registry is now the recommended registry

Action Required

If you're using the old bentopdf/bentopdf image, update your configuration immediately: …

Note

Please use the edge release instead of the latest for this version. A very small bug has been fixed, but creating another release note would be tedious 😂. So just for this instance, please use the edge version. After this, all new releases can be used via latest.

BentoPDF Now Has 10k Stars!!! 🥳

First of all, I would like to start by announcing that BentoPDF has now been starred over 10,000 times!! I am incredibly happy and grateful for the support from the community. Thank you to everyone for sharing and recommending BentoPDF to others, contributing bug fixes, translations, or reporting bugs and suggesting new features. Bento wouldn't be here without all of you. ❤️

Please Review Us

To help more people discover BentoPDF and build trust, I have created TrustPilot and G2 accounts for BentoPDF. I would be really happy if anyone could take a moment to review us there 😊

• TrustPilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.bentopdf.com
• G2: https://www.g2.com/products/bentopdf/reviews

Additionally, I want to add some genuine human reviews to our website, as the placeholder reviews have been there since I first started BentoPDF 🤣. So if you are an individual or a company and BentoPDF has helped you in any way, please send us a review along with your name, company name (if applicable), and your photo. We will randomly select submissions to feature in our Testimonials section! You can send it via email: contact@bentopdf.com or via our Discord …

A small update for PDF/A. Now it's more robust and accurately handles transparency for PDF/A-2b and 3b.

What's Changed

• Fix subdirectory hosting for static pages by @Roddy-D in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/335

New Contributors

• @Roddy-D made their first contribution in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/335

Full Changelog: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/compare/v1.15.3...v1.15.4

What's Changed

• The Markdown to PDF feature now supports mermaid diagrams. There was also a lot of spacing being applied to the exported PDFs. This has been fixed
• The self hosted docs have been fixed
• Add LABEL "org.opencontainers.image.url" by @ryuupendragon in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/317

New Contributors ❤️

• @ryuupendragon made their first contribution in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/317

Note

If someone can help me out with the documentation in VitePress that'd be awesome ( I hate writing lol)

Instead of Dad Joke Today Here is a meme

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/compare/v1.15.1...v1.15.3

What's Changed

• Buid and package EmbedPDF.js using Github workflow by @EmeraldPi in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/235
• Fix edit-pdf-page.ts and revert fileHandler.ts (EmbedPDF.js snippet fix) by @EmeraldPi in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/274
• fix: Absolute paths for logo and favicons by @hemantapkh in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/262
• Update ICLA.md by @Stephan-P in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/293
• Fix: EmbedPDF package runner broken from v2 change by @EmeraldPi in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/300
• Documentation for static website hosting of BentoPDF by @larryclaman in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/307

New Contributors

• @EmeraldPi made their first contribution in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/235
• @hemantapkh made their first contribution in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/262
• @Stephan-P made their first contribution in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/293
• @larryclaman made their first contribution in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/307

Full Changelog: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/compare/v1.11.2...v1.14.0

Dad Joke of the Release

Why do stamps make great friends? Because they really stick with you! 🤣

Release Notes v1.11.2

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1. Stamp Username is Now Editable

• You can now enter your name before uploading a PDF in the Add Stamps tool. No more "Unknown User"!
• Your custom name appears on stamps when you enable the "Username" checkbox in the stamp creation dialog.

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2. New Language Support

• Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) - Thanks @tuyndoan! ❤️
• Chinese (中文) - Thanks @Cxllxc! ❤️
• Fixed Multi Tool localization issues along with Chinese support.

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3. Docker Improvements

• Subdirectory support added to the Dockerfile - Thanks @munqsy! ❤️
• You can now deploy in Docker with subdirectory paths.
• New Docker tags:
  • latest - Stable release builds
  • edge - Unstable experimental builds from main branch

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4. Simplified Self-Hosting Instructions

• Removed all the confusing Python/Ruby/PHP/Go options from the README.
• npx http-server -c-1 is now the recommended way to serve the dist folder.
• npm run preview is now recommended when building from source.

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5. Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed issue with workers when hosting in subdirectory
• Fixed issue with Add Stamps and Sign Tool when hosting in subdirectory
• Fixed rotation tool not working correctly
• Fixed issue of language switcher not showing in simple mode or when hosting in subdirectory

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Dad Joke of the Release

What's the best place to get a uniform? New Jersey 🤣

Release Notes

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1. Internationalization (i18n) Support

• Added comprehensive i18n infrastructure with German and English locales to start. I don't know German so I had just copy pasted from Google Translate lol. Please help me out with the translation
• All UI elements, tool descriptions, and interface text are now translatable.
• Check out the README for details on how to contribute translations for your language!

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2. All Tools Now Have Standalone Pages

• Every single tool has been ported to its own dedicated page.
• Cleaner URLs, better SEO, and improved performance.
• Each tool page loads independently with only the resources it needs.

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3. Organize tool is deprecated

• The "Organize" tool has been deprecated.
• "Duplicate and Organize PDF" replaces it as they had overlapping functionality

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4. Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed broken Discord link you can now actually join our community!
• Added comprehensive Docker subdirectory deployment guide in the README.

5. Docker Subdirectory Deployment

• You can now deploy in Docker with subdirectory

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Not gonna lie, this update took way longer than I expected and left me with some serious brainfog. Having ADHD definitely didn’t help lol …