Telerik Reporting

What's New 2026 Q1

Inline Image Support in HtmlTextBox

The HtmlTextBox now supports inline images via the <img> tag, allowing report authors to embed static or data-driven images directly within HTML-formatted content. This enhances layout flexibility, reduces the need for separate image elements and ensures consistent rendering across all output formats that support rich text. The result - report authors can create richer, more compact report layouts with fewer visual elements to manage.

Repeating Table Group Headers

Table groups now support repeat-on-every-page behavior, giving report authors finer control over table layouts. This improvement enhances readability for multi-page reports and helps meet common reporting and compliance requirements, so readers can more easily interpret long tables without losing context across pages.

Unicode Bidirectional (BiDi) Text Layout Support

With this release Telerik Reporting includes Unicode Bidirectional (BiDi) text layout support in its Skia-based rendering engine. This ensures correct visual ordering of mixed RTL and LTR text, improving readability and accessibility for multilingual reports across major rendering formats and platforms. Multilingual reports now display correctly and consistently for global audiences.

Unicode bi-di text layout support in skia rendering engine Telerik Reporting

Improved Serialization for .NET

Resource serialization for .NET has been improved when serving reports to report viewers and designer tools. The new implementation replaces Newtonsoft.Json with the built-in System.Text.Json, resulting in better performance and a simplified deployment experience with fewer external dependencies. Developers benefit from faster report delivery and easier setup with fewer moving parts.

The only remaining usage of Newtonsoft.Json is in the WebReportDesigner backend REST service, where it is required for specific resource serialization scenarios. This dependency is not used for the WebReportDesigner client–server communication, which now fully relies on System.Text.Json.