add deserialization class filter to fix the CVE-2026-6009 security vulnerability;

introduce URL whitelist filter for controlling repository resources access;

new keepTogether flag for crosstab row groups;

various fixes made to the PDF exporter to better support the PDF/UA (accessibility)
and PDF/A (archiving) standards;

new OSGi and Spring Boot samples;

support for versioning in the Jackson JRXML writer;

various dependencies upgrades including: Spring 6.2.18, Jackson 2.18.6, Bouncy Castle 1.84,
Jetty 12.0.35 and Apache Log4J 2.25.4;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

introducing an official JasperReports Maven Plugin for compiling, decompiling and updating
report design files (groupId: net.sf.jasperreports, artifactId: jasperreports-maven-plugin);

improved performance of the Ant tasks for compiling, decompiling and updating report design
files by implementing multi-threading support;

various dependencies upgrades including: Apache Commons Lang 3.20.0, Rhino 1.8.1, ICU4J 78.2
and Apache Log4J 2.25.3;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

support for proportional table column resize using negative weight values convention;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

add deserialization class filter to fix the CVE-2025-10492 security vulnerability;

new net.sf.jasperreports.export.docx.size.page.to.content export configuration property
added to support variable DOCX page size;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

added support for horizontalPosition and shrinkWidth properties to table component and weight
property to table columns to better control table resize behavior when table columns are hidden or resized.

various dependencies upgrades including: Spring 6.2.3, Apache Batik 1.18,
Apache Commons Codec 1.18.0, Apache Commons IO 2.18.0, Apache Commons Logging 1.3.5,
Apache Log4J 2.24.3, Apache Commons Collections 4.5.0 and Apache POI 5.4.1;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

added support for horizontalPosition and shrinkWidth properties to table component and weight
property to table columns to better control table resize behavior when table columns are hidden or resized.

removed the Google Maps component, the Chrome server side rendering of Javascript visualizations extension,
the interactivity extension as well as the PL/SQL and Oracle stored procedure query executer;

various dependencies upgrades including: Apache Batik 1.18, Apache POI 5.3.0 and Spring 6.2.3;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

various dependencies upgrades including: Jackson 2.17.1, RequireJS 2.3.7, Apache POI 5.3.0
and Apache Xalan 2.7.3;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

added automatic module names to manifest files and fixed split packages issues in preparation for
Java 9 modules compliance;

minor bug fixes and improvements;

removal of the Ant build system and replacing it with a Maven build system;

deprecated code removed;

breaking backward compatibility of serialized/compiled *.jasper report template files,
mostly because of historical deprecated serialization code removal/cleanup mentioned above
(source *.jrxml report templates need to be recompiled to *.jasper using the new version of
the library);

breaking backward compatibility of source *.jrxml report template files and *.jrtx style
template files by replacing the Apache Commons Digester based parsers with Jackson XML object
serialization. *.jrxml and *.jrtx files created with version 6 or older can no longer be loaded
with version 7 or newer of the library alone. The conversion from the old file formats to the new
file formats and back can be made using Jaspersoft Studio 7 and later versions of it;

extracting various optional extension JAR artifacts from the the core library JAR artifact
to allow the Jakarta Migration of certain of these optional features while also introducing
better third party Maven dependency management of these artifacts;

some Java package names have changed as a consequence of separating functionality into optional JAR artifacts;

upgraded JFreeChart to version 1.5.4 which no longer has support for 3D charts. Reports having
Pie 3D, Bar 3D and Stacked Bar 3D charts would continue to work, but will be rendered as 2D,
all their 3D effects being ignored;

minor bug fixes and improvements;