v5.12.1

Release date: 4/27/2021

• Improve XML sanitization performance on Linux: 10x faster

• Fix PDF hang issue

• Better handling Think Cell object in Microsoft Office

v5.12

Release date: 4/8/2021

• End of support Windows 7, 8, and 8.1; Centos 6+; and RedHat 6+

• Recursively sanitize PST (require .NET Core 3.1 or newer to be installed on Linux, follow this instruction)

• Support new file types: JW CAD (JWW), SXF Feature Comment (SFC), P21 ( STEP Data Model)

• A new configuration to process CDATA in XML

• Improve CSV, DWG sanitization on Linux

v5.11.2

Release date: 3/1/2021

• Improve XLSB sanitization

• Support to remove event attribute in HTML file

• Fix sanitization failure when a TIFF file has unknown custom tags

• Fix compound file corrupted after sanitization

v5.11.1

Release date: 1/27/2021

• Fix a crash issue when sanitizing LNK file

• Fix sanitization failures with some specific XLM, PDF, PNG files.

v.5.11

Release date: 1/11/2021

• Per-file configuration will be available as part of Workflow (requires MD Core 4.20.0 and above)

• Whitelist Macro based on Macro content

• Enhance engine communication on Linux

• Support XLS to CSV conversion

v5.10.3

Release date: 12/07/2020

• Reduce resource usage when sanitizing XML files

• Fix a crash issue when sanitizing Excel files

v5.10.2

Release date: 11/16/2020

• Fixed a hang issue with XLSX sanitization

• Fixed a PDF timeout issue

v5.10.1

Release date: 10/28/2020

• A better way to remove VBA macro in XLS

• Fixed a bug that causes some specific PDF files cannot be opened after sanitizing

• Fixed memory leak issue in MP3 sanitization

v5.10

Release date: 09/28/2020

• Support new file types:

  • Open Office Spreadsheet (ODS, OTS)

  • Open Office Presentation (ODP, OTP)

  • Hangul Word template (HWT)

• Support recursive sanitization for MS Office 2003 (DOC, XLS, PPT) , Open Office (ODT, OTT, ODS, OTS, ODP, OTS) , Rich text format (RTF)

• New configuration to remove javascript hyperlink in HTML

• Preserve object thumbnail after removing OLE objects in Office 2003

• Improve Chart object handling in XLSB

• Better hyperlink handling in RTF: remove hyperlinks properly, keep bookmark links

• Improve XFA form sanitization in PDF

v5.9.3

Release date: 9/1/2020

• Better handling JSON details

• Improve TXT sanitization

• Better HTML redirection in cases a hyperlink is escaped

• New file type conversion: XLSM to CSV, XLTX to CSV, DOC to RTF, DOCM to RTF, HTML to TXT

v5.9.2

Release date: 8/10/2020

• Support new file types:

  • File type conversions on Linux: PPTX/PPSX/SVG to BMP

  • TIP Test selection engine (TSE, TSEC, TSEZ)

  • WinACE archive format (ACE) conversion to other archive file formats

• Better handling embedded PDF file in MS Excel 2007

• Improve PDF, TIFF, RTF sanitization

v5.9.1

Release date: 7/15/2020

• Hotfix to work with MetaDefender Kiosk Secure Image

v5.9

Release date: 7/7/2020

• Support new file types:

  • Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DCM)

  • AutoCAD Drawing Standards (DWS), AutoCAD Drawing Template (DWT),

  • Microsoft Powerpoint Slide 2007+ (SLDX), Microsoft Office PowerPoint Slide 2007 - Macro-Enabled (SLDM)

  • Windows Shortcut File (LNK)

  • HD Photo (WDP), Google Web Image (WebP)

  • DOC to DOCX, DOT to DOTX conversion

• A new configuration to allow hyperlink redirection in Microsoft Offices, Microsoft Visio documents, Hancom documents, PDF, RTF, ICS, VCS, ODT

• Better timeout handling for Microsoft Office, PDF sanitization

• Improve HWP sanitization: better image handling, separate chart configuration with embedded objects, fix memory leak

• Better handling Tiff images, unused objects, 3D objects in PDF sanitization

v5.8.1

Release date: 5/20/2020

• Support ALZip (ALZ) sanitization

• Support removal of thread comment in Microsoft Excel

• A new configuration to allow zero font in HTML file

• Improve SVG, XML, UTF-16 HTML sanitization

v5.8

Release date: 4/14/2020

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable is a new requirement

• New configurations:

  • A configuration to skip a PDF file with digital signatures

  • A configuration to process a HTML file which has multiple <html> tags in it.

  • A configuration to keep/remove chart in Microsoft Office files

• Support new file types: HTML Application (HTA), Adobe Illustrator (AI), WinRAR (RAR to RAR)

• Improve Microsoft Office sanitization: better file path handling, improve parser performance

• Better PDF timeout handling

• Improve image quality when converting from PDF to TIFF

v5.7.4

Release date: 3/23/2020

• Better handling special signs (",+) in CSV

• Improve hyperlink removal in RTF

v5.7.3

Release date: 3/5/2020

• Handle Meta Refresh tag in HTML

• Better OLE object handling in DOCX

v5.7.2

Release date: 2/18/2020

• Better hyperlink handling in PDF

• Improve embedded font removal in DOCX

• More stable JPG, ICO, CUR sanitization

• Minor changes in configuration UI

v5.7.1

Release date: 1/29/2020

• Fixed compatibility with FIPS compliance

• Better handling PDF/A-2

• New configurations to control image quality in PDF

• Return hyperlink list when choosing "Display hyperlink with domain only" in HTML sanitization

v5.7.0

Release date: 12/26/2019

• New configurations to sanitize hyperlinks in HTML

  • Return hyperlinks without processing them

  • Replace with text

  • Add a prefix URL to hyperlinks

• More details about the sanitized objects for MS Office, PDF, HTML

• New UI Configuration (available in MetaDefender Core 4.17.1 or newer)

• New support file type

  • Icon file format (.ico)

  • Cursor file format (.cur)

  • Hancom Cell (.cell)

  • Hancom Show (.show)

• Improve PDF sanitization speed

• Better disk I/O usage

v5.6.5

Release date: 12/2/2019

• Fixed additional break line when sanitizing HTML

• Better handling metadata removal in Microsoft Office 2007

v5.6.4

Release date: 11/19/2019

• Improve PDF sanitization: betting handling metadata, none standard PDF files

v5.6.3

Release date: 11/7/2019

• Better processing Cross Reference Table ( xref ) in PDF

• Improve multi-threads handling for JTD sanitization

v5.6.2

• Preserve newline character when sanitizing CSV

• Better handling PDF Form with empty decoded data

v5.6.1

• Better handling invalid file structure for TIFF

• Better handling MP3 version 2.5

v5.6.0

• Better handling CSV formulas starting with special characters

• Microsoft Office sanitization improvement

  • Sanitize recursively all supported file types embedded in Microsoft Office 2007 documents

  • Better handling file path when processing

  • Improved invalid file structure detection for DOC

• PDF sanitization improvements:

  • Supported sanitize PDF file generated by Adobe Illustrator

  • Improved PDF form sanitization

• Optimized system resource usage (RAM, I/O)

v5.5.3

• Supported TXT to TXT sanitization

• Introduced new options to process formulas in CSV

• Improved memory usage when sanitizing big HTML files

• Better handling invalid structure JPG files

v5.5.2

• Better resource usage for image processing

• Better disarming process for Microsoft Office sanitization

v5.5.1

• Supported new file types:

  • Text file (TXT)

  • Audio Video Interleave (AVI), Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)

  • Outlook Personal Folder (PST)

• Supported a new configuration to process image link in HTML

• Improved 20% PDF sanitization speed

v5.5.0

• Deep CDR as new name

• Supported new file types:

  • Media file format: MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 (MP3) , Waveform Audio (WAV)

  • Archive file: Cabinet Archive (CAB), ARJ Archive (ARJ), LZH Archive (LZH), LZMA Archive (LZMA)

  • Email file: Outlook Message (MSG)

• Improved XLS/XLSM sanitization: better Macro/VBA handling

• Better embedded object removal for XLSX/PPTX sanitization

• Improved ODT sanitization: remove linked images; hidden text, paragraphs, comments

• Improved Deep CDR details

v5.4.3

• Improved file handling for HTML, CSV, images sanitization

• Improved process management in Linux sanitization

• Better encode handling for RTF sanitization

• Improved logging

v5.4.2

• Better DDE handling for DOCX

• Improved PDF sanitization: better handling MetaData, XFA form, Security setting

• Better temp file handling for JTDC sanitization

v5.4.1

• Improved Linux sanitization stability

• Improved ODT sanitization: font, embedded sheet handling

• Better DDE handling for DOC/XLS/XLT

• Better link handling for DOCX

v5.4.0

• Supported new 26 file formats, more than 100 sanitization types:

  • Video file format: MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4), Windows Media Video (WMV)

  • Email file format: Electronic Mail (EML)

  • Microsoft PowerPoint: Microsoft PowerPoint (97-2003) Show (PPS), Microsoft PowerPoint (97-2003) Template (POT), Microsoft PowerPoint Macro-Enabled Show (PPSM), Microsoft PowerPoint Template (POTX), Microsoft PowerPoint Macro-Enabled Template (POTM),

  • Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel (97-2003) Template (XLT), Microsoft Excel Template (XLTX), Microsoft Excel Macro-Enabled Template (XLTM)

  • Microsoft Visio: Microsoft Visio Drawing (VSDX), Microsoft Visio Macro-Enabled Drawing (VSDM), Microsoft Visio Drawing Stencil (VSSX), Microsoft Visio Template (VSTX), Microsoft Visio Macro-Enabled Template (VSTM), Microsoft Visio Macro-Enabled Stencil ( VSSM), Microsoft Visio Stencil XML file type (VSX), Microsoft XML for Visio Template (VTX), Microsoft Visio XML Drawing (VDX)

  • OpenDocument Document Template (OTT)

  • MIME HTML (MHT)

  • AutoCAD: Drawing Interchange Format (DXF), Design Web Format (DWF)

  • 3D files: Digital Asset Exchange (DAE), 3D Studio (3DS), Universal 3D (U3D), Google Draco (DRC), AVEVA Plant Design Management System Model (RVM)

  • RTF to PDF

• Return forensic info to show which objects were sanitized, removed

• Improved image sanitization speed, memory usage

• Improved PDF sanitization: better error classification, metadata handling, script handling, form handling

• Improved XLS, PPT sanitization: duplicated object handling, macro handling, image handling

• Improved HTML sanitization: handle hyperlink better, preserve content in "pre" tag, remove redundant data

• More stable Linux sanitization for DOCX, PPTX

v5.3.4

• Better handling empty HTML file

• Improved PDF parser to handle file structure better

v5.3.3

• Improved handling hidden content in DOCX sanitization

• Improved ODT sanitization in Linux

v5.3.2

• Improved error message for Microsoft XML Spreadsheet 2003 (.xml) sanitization

• Improved PDF sanitization: XFA form, Metadata parser

v5.3.1

• Enhanced XLS sanitization in case files only contain Macros

• Improved forensic info in HWP sanitization

v5.3.0

• Sanitization of recursively embedded documents in Microsoft Office 2007 documents

• Sanitization of Calendar data files: iCalendar (.ics) & vCalender v1.0 (.vcs)

• Enhanced EMF/WMF sanitization

• Improved image sanitization to prevent advanced steganography attacks

• Extended file support that now includes Ichitaro Document to Compressed format (JTDC), a compressed version of JTD

• Enhanced PDF sanitization functionality, including handling of digital signatures, JavaScript, form fields, and layers

v5.2.12

• Enhanced handling DDE with RTF file type

• Improved handling external objects in Microsoft Office document

• Improved handling Forms in PDF

• Improved error message for password protect documents

v5.2.11

• Enhanced the EMF sanitization inside PPT for Linux

• Improved error messages for invalid file structure in DOC, PPT

• Improved the TIFF sanitization inside PDF

• Better CDATA node handling in HTML sanitization

• Better temp file handling in Microsoft Office 2007 sanitization

v5.2.10

• Better OLE handling for HWP

• Enhance file structure validation for PDF, Microsoft Office

v5.2.9

• Better failure handling for PDF, DOCX sanitization

• Enhanced Microsoft Office sanitization: remove more linked objects, control stream.

v5.2.8

• Improved PPT sanitization speed

• Improved CSV sanitization speed in Linux

• Improved WMF/EMF sanitization to prevent device independent bitmap (DIB) copy vulnerability (CVE-2017-0190) and buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2005-2123, CVE-2005-2124)

• Improved forensic info and error message

v5.2.7

• Sanitization detail is available on MetaDefender Core REST API (version 4.12.1 and newer) (Beta)

• Improved WMF/EMF sanitization to prevent code execution

• Improved WMF/EMF sanitization for images inside document files

• Support Windows Metafile (WMF), Enhanced Metafile (EMF), Microsoft Visio Drawing (VSDX, VSDM) sanitization on Linux (Beta)

• Better embedded object handling for Microsoft Office file types

• Removed external media objects for PPT sanitization

• Better removing PDF metadata

• Improved HTML sanitization speed on Linux

• Added performance report for Linux

v5.2.6

• Enhanced steganography sanitization for PNG

v5.2.5

• Support Windows Metafile (WMF), Enhanced Metafile (EMF) sanitization on Windows (Beta)

• Better non-standard objects handling for PDF

• Enhanced HWP sanitization: content, image handling.

v5.2.4

• Improved Microsoft Office sanitization speed on Linux

• Improved PDF sanitization speed on Linux

• Improved HWP sanitization speed on Linux

• Improved JTD sanitization speed on Linux

v5.2.3

• Supported Microsoft Visio Drawing (VSDX, VSDM) sanitization on Windows (Beta)

• Improved hyperlink sanitization for HTML

• Improved hyperlink sanitization for HWP

v5.2.2

• Removed external media objects for PPTX/PPSX sanitization

• Improved hidden text removal for DOCX/DOTX sanitization

v5.2.1

• Fixed the issue of loading customized configuration on a 64bit system

• Handle NULL character in content for HTML to HTML sanitization

• Preserve UTF-8 BOM encoding for CSV sanitization

v5.2.0

• Handle big file size sanitization on Windows

• Improved PPSX sanitization: better OLE object, Command handling

• Improved file size with Microsoft Office files contain EMF/WMF images

• On Linux, additional file types support: DOCM2DOCM, DOTM2DOTM, DOTX2DOTX, XLS2XLS, XLSM2XLSM, XLSB2SXLSB, PPT2PPT, PPSX2PPSX, PPTM2PPTM, RTF2RTF, HTML2HTML, WMF2JPG, XML-DOC2PDF, XML-XLS2PDF, XML-DOCX2PDF, JTD2JTD, HWP2HWP, DWG2DWG

v5.1.20

• Fixed XML, SVG sanitization issue

v5.1.19

• Enhanced Linux CDR performance

• Supported more file types in Linux CDR: XML2XML, SVG2SVG, DOT2DOT, GIF2GIF

v5.1.18

• Removed Linux BETA label

• Improved HWP sanitization: better image handling, stream processing.

• Fixed HTML sanitization issue when sanitizing links, scripts

v5.1.17

• Increased HWP sanitization speed

• Handling missing fonts for DOC sanitization on Linux

• Handling attachment removal for PDF with non-standard format

• Better handling of temporary files for DOCX, PPTX, XLSX sanitization

v5.1.16

• Fixed moniker type issue in PPT

• Fixed some handling embedded font in PDF

v5.1.15

• Improved Linux sanitization for DOCX

• Added support iso-2022-jp for HTML sanitization

• Enhanced CSV sanitization

• Enhanced PNG sanitization inside Microsoft Office documents

v5.1.14

• Enhanced Macro removal for AutoCAD (Beta)

• Adding support additional potentially malicious objects in DOCX

• Supported none Unicode encoding for HTML sanitization

• Enhanced sanitization of some non-standard format PDF

• Enhanced sanitization of some non-standard format RTF

v5.1.13

• Supported SVG to SVG sanitization (Beta)

• Adding support additional Potentially Malicious Objects (PMO) object types in PPTX

• Adding support additional PMO object types in XLSM

• Improve handling file structure integrity with a specific DOCX type

v5.1.12

• Enhanced PPTX, PDF sanitization

• Better handling of temporary files for image sanitization

v5.1.11

• Supported AutoCAD (Beta)

• Introduced new type of process_hyperlink_behavior for HTML

• Enhanced PPT sanitization

• Fixed bug on PDF sanitization: inverted colors in Linux, remove_form, ...

• Fixed image sanitization failure on Linux

• Fixed embedded object removal for JTD

v5.1.10

• Updated omsFileTypeConversion.exe icon for rebrand

• Fixed JTD sanitization lost images and objects

• Fixed bugs on Microsoft Office files: DDE, Macro,...

• Handled OLE Link for Microsoft Office files

v5.1.9

• Improved Linux sanitization

• Fixed bugs on PDF sanitization: corrupted files, crashed

• Distinguished Generic XML and Microsoft Office XML sanitization

v5.1.8

• Fixed bugs on PDF and DOCM sanitization

v5.1.7

• process_tag in HTML configuration was changed to process_hyperlink_behavior, default value is 1

• Removed metadata in RTF file

• Enhanced JPG, PDF, HTML sanitization

v5.1.6

• Supported DDE sanitization for DOC, XLS and CSV file format

• Enhanced sanitization on ODT file format

• Enhanced DLP support for DOC and DOCX sanitization (hidden text)

• Enhanced Microsoft Office 2007 file format (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) sanitization (comment, revision)

• Enhanced stabilization for HTML, XLS and PPTX file format

• Enhanced validation for HTML and RTF file format

v5.1.5

• Improved PDF sanitization (reduced sanitized file size, optimized image processing time in PDF,...)

• Supported ODT sanitization (for both Windows and Linux)

• Improved JPG sanitization (reduced processing time)

v5.1.4

• Supported DDE sanitization for DOCX and XLSX file format

v5.1.3

• Enhanced metadata sanitization for Microsoft Office 2007 file format ( Title, Subject, Comments, Author, Last Modified By, Company, Modified Date)

• Improved TIFF to TIFF sanitization

v5.1.2

• Improved DOC, PDF, HTML sanitization for validation

• Supported Form object sanitization in PDF

v5.1.1

• Supported metadata sanitization for Microsoft Office 2003 file format (DOC, XLS, PPT)