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Document Viewer · Version history

Document Viewer changelog and version history

Latest version
2.4.2
Oct 24, 2026 (16 days ago)
Releases
16
since 2019
In the last year
4
about one every 55 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20191 release
  • 20201 release
  • 20245 releases
  • 20255 releases
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. Document Viewer 2.4.2Latest

    • Security: Updated the Freemius SDK dependency to the latest version to patch identified vulnerabilities.
  2. Document Viewer 2.4.1

    • Update: Redesigned and integrated the new standardized help and demos admin dashboard.
  3. Document Viewer 2.4.0

    • New: Added four dedicated settings panels (Document Source, Viewer Engine, Display Dimensions, Security Restrictions) to group the Gutenberg block settings.
    • New: Added custom SVG icons inside the block settings panel titles.
    • Update: Redesigned block settings field titles to use friendlier, clearer wording for non-technical users.
    • Update: Consolidated admin asset enqueuing into a single class loader.
    • Update: Standardized core classes under includes/core/ and helper files under includes/helper/ for namespace consistency.
    • Improvement: Integrated Composer autoloading to boot and resolve PHP dependencies dynamically.
    • Improvement: Unified the legacy shortcode rendering pipeline to run through the Gutenberg block rendering engine via the native render_block() API.
    • Improvement: Replaced the block settings TabPanel with separate, sequential settings panels.
    • Improvement: Added detailed file format descriptions to simplify the document selector.
    • Improvement: Added a fixed height and fade-in transition to the upload UI to prevent layout jumping on tab change.
    • Improvement: Reorganized metabox fields into two tabbed sections: Document Settings and Security & Restrictions.
    • Fix: Resolved a fatal error during the plugins_loaded hook by replacing query loops with get_posts() in the ImportMeta class.
    • Fix: Resolved cross-origin iframe console errors in the block editor under content protection mode.
    • Fix: Resolved pop-out overlay alignment and responsiveness using CSS container queries.
    • Fix: Resolved Protect Content bypasses via text selection and keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl/Cmd + C, A, S, P).
    • Fix: Resolved Disable Full Screen and pop-out overlay style targeting mismatches.
    • Fix: Resolved missing i18n translation wrappers on the Protect Content toggle labels.
  4. Document Viewer 2.3.3

    • Update: Improved the block editor upload options.

20255 releases

  1. Document Viewer 2.3.2

    • New: Added a modern admin dashboard.
  2. Document Viewer 2.3.1

    • Fix: Resolved reported issues.
  3. Document Viewer 2.3.0

    • Fix: Resolved the text domain issue.
    • New: Added a fully featured Gutenberg block.
  4. Document Viewer 2.2.10

    • Update: Freemius WordPress SDK.
  5. Document Viewer 2.2.9

    • Update: Freemius WordPress SDK.

20245 releases

  1. Document Viewer 2.2.8

  2. Document Viewer 2.2.6

  3. Document Viewer 2.2.4

    • Fix: Height issue.
  4. Document Viewer 2.0.1

  5. Document Viewer 1.1

    • New: Document management screen.
    • New: Gutenberg block support.
    • Improvement: Performance.

20201 release

  1. Document Viewer 1.0.1

20191 release

  1. Document Viewer 1.0

Questions about Document Viewer’s releases

What is the latest version of Document Viewer?

2.4.2, released on Oct 24, 2026 (2 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Document Viewer updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 55 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from December 2019.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Document Viewer’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.