A roadmap of enhancements, deprecations, and removals for the next major version of Gotenberg (9.0.0).

Please note that this list is subject to change: features may be released earlier than expected, deferred, or removed entirely.

LibreOffice

• Switch from UNO python script to LibreOfficeKit - Switch from unoconv to LibreOfficeKit #1004.

Chromium

• Extra Script Args - waitForExpression Timeout with extraScriptTags and setTimeout in Gotenberg 8.x #1152.
• failOnResourceHttpStatusCodes default to [499,599]

Homemade Engine

• Support for PDF/A formatting to avoid post-processing by LibreOffice.
• Support for PDF/UA formatting to avoid post-processing by LibreOffice.
• Validate PDF/A & PDF/UA compliance.
• All features from existing PDF engines.
• Extract PDFs info (text, OCR, images, etc.) - Add OCR support #1454.
• Extract images.
• PDF Forms.
• Descrypt.
• Signatures.

Misc

• Rename "embed" route and keys to "attachments".