Release 16.10.0

Date of Release: 26 February 2026

New Features

• New DOCX content management policy: doc_variables.
  • Handles elements that can contain active scripts or malicious payloads. A policy setting of sanitise is applied by default.

Fixes and improvements

• Resolved issues in SVG where certain files were incorrectly modified during engine processing.
• General bug fixes and optimisations across multiple supported file formats.
• Updates to the example policy file and policy file schema.

Defects and limitations

• The JavaScript wrapper is currently excluded from the release package and will be reintroduced in a future release.
• The Word Search Java wrapper compatibility is currently limited to JRE8.
• PDFs generated via the MS Outlook Adobe plugin are not supported.
• Word Search analysis XML no longer reports structural content or changes.
• Processing times may be impacted by changes made to licensing functionality.
• Processing files using multiple threads is not supported. Spawning multiple processes is advised in order to facilitate parallel processing.
• Word Search functionality is provided as beta:
  • 'text' or 'regex' cannot be the same for 'require' or 'allow'/'disallow' as this will regenerate the file and ignore the 'disallow' or 'require' setting.
  • The pipe symbol (|) at the start or end of 'require' can potentially cause the Engine to hang when using regex search policies.