Clients can expect a new API layer designed for intelligent document automation in .NET environments. The upcoming release will include sample workflows and prompt templates to accelerate integration with AI agents.

We will introduce an MCP Server exposing document querying and manipulation tools that can be either installed directly in AI Chat client for direct use or utilized programmatically for enabling agents to analyze and modify documents.

We are introducing automatic table detection in Telerik PdfProcessing to make it easier to produce accessible, PDF/UA‑compliant documents from existing PDFs. When enabled, the library will analyze page primitives and text positions to recognize tabular layouts and emit proper table structures (Table, TR, TH, TD) in the Tagged PDF output. This significantly improves how screen readers navigate data‑heavy documents and helps your teams pass accessibility audits and tools like PAC3 with less manual tagging. The feature is designed to be configurable and performant, so you can adopt it safely across both small documents and large, table‑rich reports. 

Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a standardized way to embed rich metadata (author, title, keywords, custom properties, etc.) directly into PDF files in XML form. It goes far beyond the old PDF “Info” dictionary by supporting structured, extensible data. We will introduce and gradually improve the XMP fields support.

Microsoft has announced that support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 will end in November 2026. In alignment with Microsoft’s lifecycle policy, all Telerik products will also discontinue support for .NET 8 and .NET 9.

This announcement provides ample opportunity to transition your applications to .NET 10 or later, ensuring you benefit from the latest platform innovations, performance improvements, and security updates delivered by Microsoft and Telerik.

Looking ahead, Telerik products are striving for early compatibility with the preview versions of .NET 11, and by November 2026 will provide full support for the official .NET 11 release, enabling developers to confidently adopt the next generation of the .NET platform.

 

We’re significantly improving the performance and responsiveness of our Excel processing engine by introducing a calculation chain algorithm. This enhancement replaces the current event-driven recalculation logic with a smarter, dependency-aware system that updates cells in an optimal and, where possible, parallel manner.

With this update, spreadsheets will open faster, recalculate more efficiently, and scale better with complex formulas bringing our Excel library in line with modern expectations for performance and accuracy.

We’re adding AutoFilter support to the SpreadStreamProcessing library to simplify data filtering in streamed Excel files. This feature will allow users to define filter criteria through the API and automatically hide rows that don’t match, as data is added to the stream. The resulting Excel file will include the applied filter, improving accuracy and saving time.