v6.0.0-beta

See Upgrade guide from version 5.x to 6.x.

Note: React <16.8 is not supported. If you're still using React older than 16.8, please use react-pdf@^5.0.0 instead.

❗️ = breaking change

What's new?

• ❗️ Vastly improved performance and bundle size thanks to the modern version of PDF.js that is now used. This drops support for legacy browsers. See README for details.
• Updated PDF.js to 2.14.305 (#1019).
  • Improvements for the text layer (space insertion)
  • Improvements for canvas rendering (thin line rendering)
  • Improvements for forms (printing/saving of choice lists)
  • Improvements for accessibility (sidebar and search results).
  • Bug fixes and optimizations, in particular for annotations, font/image conversion, SMask rendering, text layer rendering and TypeScript definitions.
  • Performance improvements for rendering image masks, Type3 fonts and certain drawing instructions
  • Support for specifying custom background/foreground colors for rendering in the viewer (this will be soon be supported in React-PDF).
• Refactored TextLayer to use pdfjs.renderTextLayer (#944).
  • Added support for enhanceTextSelection prop.
  • Added support for onRenderTextLayerError prop.
  • Added support for onRenderTextLayerSuccess prop.

What's changed?

• ❗️ Minimum React version is now 16.8.
• ❗️ onGetTextSuccess is now called with an object containing items and styles.
• ❗️ TextLayer.css now must be imported manually for TextLayer to work properly.

Bug fixes

• Fixed crash when attempting to cancel rendering of PageCanvas.