LuxPDF

Changelog

Our Plans & Updates Will Be Posted Here, Feel Free To Email: admin@luxpdf.com for Inquiries, Bugs, Suggestions etc.

Upcoming Features & Changes

  • Bug Fixes Prioritize WIP Tools For Bug Fixes
  • Edit PDF: Edit PDF Files, completely client-side
  • UI Changes: Were always looking for ways to update our UI to better organize Tools, and develop a more efficinet design

1.0 Beta - Febuary 7, 2026

Notes:

  • New Tool: Added Add Watermark (Beta) with text/image modes, draggable live first-page preview, opacity/rotation/size controls, and optional page exclusions.
  • New Tool: Added Image Resizer with batch support for PNG/JPEG/WEBP plus percentage, locked-aspect, and free width/height resize modes.
  • New Tool: Added Markdown Text to PDF with a split-screen live editor/preview, syntax highlighting, and one-click PDF export.
  • Upgrade: Improved Word (DOCX) to PDF fidelity and complex layout handling (tables, headers/footers, footnotes, and styled content).
  • UI Change: Expanded homepage tool area and added discovery updates across the homepage, related tools, and sitemap for new tools.
  • UI Change: Simplified tool pages by removing heavy hero sections and using compact inline tool titles for faster interaction.
  • UI Change: Added updated Hot/New/Beta badges to better signal popular and recently added tools.
  • UI Change: Added new color themes to the website including: Default, Gold, Cyan, Emerald, Hot Pink, and Purple.
  • UI Change: Fixed the order of Tabs when clicking on a tool.
  • Bug Fix: Reworked multi-file upload list rendering for consistent file card sizing, smoother animations, and more reliable drag-and-drop reordering.
  • Bug Fix: Improved preview modal behavior and removed broken inline bottom image previews that caused layout issues.
  • Bug Fix: Hardened Image Resizer validation to accept only supported image types and reject bad uploads earlier.
  • SEO/PWA: Rolled out a full favicon refresh (512px icon, Apple touch icon, and manifest icon updates) across all pages.
  • Community: Updated Support Us / Hall of Supporters content.
  • Note: We may have forgot to add recent changelogs for a couple of updates. Although we are busy with college, we've shipped many minor updates over the past couple months we did not add to our changelog.

0.95 Alpha — January 17, 2025

  • UI Change: Changed color scheme to be more professional and warm.
  • Policy: Updated Privacy Policy to be more specific and aligned with EU standards (CDNs, Google Fonts, Plausible, legal bases, transfers).
  • Bug Fix: Fixed ZIP option not appearing for Split PDF (adds a ZIP download when multiple outputs are created).
  • UI Change: Made tools display in rows of five instead of four on larger screens.
  • UI Change: Improved hero title formatting for a cleaner look.
  • Bug Fix: Improved Sort Pages drag behavior (drag anywhere, better spacing, mobile long-press, smoother animation).
  • UI Change: Standardized tool formatting and text styles across pages.

Alpha 0.9 - Biggest Update Yet (Experimental) - December 22

Notes:

  • New: Added Blogs for cool stories, ideas, and more
  • UI Change: Changed Add Password to Encrypt PDF (Via AES-256)
  • New: Added Compare PDFs Tool, to compare two PDF files side by side
  • New: Added Compress Image Support (PNG & JPEG)
  • New: Added Edit Metadata Tool to allow users to Edit the Metadata of PDF Files
  • New: Added Flatten PDF Tool to allow users to Flatten PDF Files
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug associated with RTF PDF outputs
  • New: Added SVG to Image Conversion Support (PNG/JPEG)
  • New: Added SVG to PDF Conversion Support
  • New: Added WEBP to Image Conversion Support (PNG/JPEG)
  • New: Added WEBP to PDF Conversion Support
  • UI Change: Added "Hot" and "New" tags to tell users which tools are popular, and which tools are new
  • UI Change: Set rows of tools to 4 instead of 3 due to the amount of new tools added, (and 2 tools from 1 for mobile users)
  • UI Change: Added "Conversions" and "Edit & Organize" sections to better organize tools by section
  • UI Change: Changed order of Tools to better organize tools

Alpha 0.8 - Office Tools Developments & More - Novemeber 13

Notes:

  • New: Added XLSX to PDF Conversion (WIP!)
  • New: Added WEBP to PDF Conversion Support
  • New: Added Compare PDF Tool to compare PDF Files
  • New: Added "Edit Metadata" tool to allow users to edit the Metadata of their PDF (WIP!)
  • New: Added Support For Image Compression (PNG & JPEG)
  • New: Added RTF to PDF File Conversion Support (WIP!)
  • New: Added PPT/PowerPoint to PDF Conversion Support (WIP!)

Alpha 0.7 - New Tools & Developmental Updates - October 1

Notes:

  • New: Added Word to PDF Conversion support
  • New: Added HTML to PDF Conversion support
  • New: Added Markdown to PDF Conversion support
  • New: Added PDF Encryption
  • Development: Converted to AGPL-3.0 License from MIT
  • Bug Fix: Fixed UI/UX problems associated with tool placement

Alpha 0.6 - New Tools & Initial Launch - September 12

Notes:

  • New: Added HEIC & HEIF to PDF Converters to support iPhone Photos
  • Bug Fix: Fixed bug associated with Mobile Users and Sort Pages
  • Bug Fix: Optimized UI for Mobile Users
  • Bug Fix: Fixed bug associated with Support Us tab and new Supporters
  • Bug Fix: Fixed bug associated with Plausible.io not gathering visits

Alpha 0.5 - Funding Setup & Bug Fixes - August 28

Notes:

  • New: Fully Setup BuyMeACoffee Integration for Donations (buggy before).
  • New: Setup Sponsorship Banner, PDF File for Sponsorship requests, Dedicated Tab For Donators & Sponsors etc
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug associated with Split Pages & GUI problems
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug associated with duplicate files being generated upon dropping

Alpha 0.4 - Core Message & Development Updates - August 23

Notes:

  • Important: Our Story & Philosophy, to share our message of what we strive LuxPDF to be
  • New: Developed a search bar to quickly index the tool your looking for
  • New: Added FAQ section
  • New: Added Extract Pages, Remove Pages, Sort Pages and other Tools
  • New: Added BuyMeACoffee Integration for Doations, Tips, etc
  • New: Added "Remove Metadata" tool to strip metadata for privacy
  • UI: Fixed code optimization for increased web performance, issues with animations
  • Bug Fix: Fixed bugs when reordering when reordering PDF Files
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug associated with Extract Pages where only certain pages would extract

Alpha 0.3 - Optimization & Basic Infrastructure - August 10

Notes:

  • New: Cloudflare migration, optimization, and more.
  • New: Setup email system
  • New: Reduced size of codebase and transfer size on Console
  • New: Updated changelog system, privacy policy, terms of service
  • New: Added PDF Comperssion, Rotation, and More
  • Bug Fix: Fixed TXT to PDF Conversion errors

Alpha 0.2 - UI Changes, Logo, & Other Branding - August 2

Notes:

  • UI Changes: Complete UI redesign with modern aesthetics, colors, animations
  • UI Changes: Logo, Favicon etc
  • UI Changes: Developed overall website design

Alpha 0.1 - Initial Release - July 15

Notes:

  • Idea: Initial concept: Privacy-first, Open-Sourced PDF tools
  • New: Set name as LuxPDF
  • UI Changes: Very basic frontend architecture
  • New: Added PDF-JPEG, PDF-PNG, Merge PDF, Split PDF, PDF-TXT, etc
  • New: Decided on Client-Side Processing and offering a Free Service for basic PDF Tools