Stirling PDF

This is a big update with lots of new functionality and changes like Form fill and redaction/annotation improvements! Also several changes around the login session expiry Special thanks to @balazs-szucs, who put a lot of work into this release!

New functionality:

• Huge manual redaction changes with colour selection and improved UI
• Add attachment support with sidebar button for viewing attachments etc (Seen in viewer mode)
• FormFill tool with context and UI components for PDF form filling
• Desktop now edits files that have been openned instead of creating new copies
• Extra JWT settings to customise expiry times for desktop and browser
• Add/remove link support

Extra improvements:

• Text selection improvements within the viewer with custom actions
• Improved link handling and link location
• EmbedPDF 2.6.0 upgrade for several bug fixes
• Multiple fixes with the viewer, its functionality, and its export
• PDF Text editor cache / JSON size issues
• Enhanced JWT handling and refreshing for better session management without forced re-logins
• Improved annotation UI
• Files correctly open in the viewer automatically if only 1 file is opened
• Improved tool disable menu to be able to disable all remaining tools and docs

What’s Changed

Enhancements

• feat(redaction): improve manual redaction with color selection and updated UI elements by @balazs-szucs in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5679
• feat(text-selection): implement text selection enhancement for double and triple-click actions by @balazs-szucs in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5712
• feat(linklayer): improve link handling with pdf-lib integration and add link toolbar, add delete link functionality by @balazs-szucs in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5715
• feat(attachments): add attachment support with sidebar and API integration by @balazs-szucs in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5673
• feat(form-fill): FormFill tool with context and UI components for PDF form filling by @balazs-szucs in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5711
• feat(frontend): Upgrade embedPDF to v2.6.0 and migrate to pdf-lib fork, fix attachment/bookmark panel by @balazs-szucs in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5723

Minor Enhancements

• Update translation by @albanobattistella in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5670
• various viewer pill fixes by @reecebrowne in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5714
• Fix viewer export by @reecebrowne in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5713
• fix tool disabling for docs and others by @Frooodle in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5722
• Preserve local paths for desktop saves by @Frooodle in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5543
• refactor(api): replace regex string literals with Pattern instances for improved performance and readability by @balazs-szucs in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5680
• refactor: fix homepage file upload path by @Frooodle in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5738
• PDF Text editor changes by @Frooodle in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5726
• fix_env_files_for_tauri by @ConnorYoh in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5741
• JWT enhancements for desktop by @Frooodle in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5742
• Chore/v2/improve annotation UI by @reecebrowne in https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/pull/5724

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/compare/v2.4.6…v2.5.0