Versions and Release Notes (CommonLook PDF web-based version)

April 20, 2026

New

• Added Demo Trial CL Edu to our external endpoint
• Updated Support documents for Trial users (no login required)
• Updated End User License Agreement (EULA)
• Connections for Paragraphs across pages

Addressed Issues

• Increased Minimum Password Length
• Fixed an issue with the Simplified editor not creating accessible files.
• Fixed an issue with page numbers not rendering correctly on a specific file.
• Fixed an issue with a specific file failing to convert to PDF/UA
  
  
  

March 20, 2026

Addressed Issues:

• Fixed an issue where the compliance report was inserting the wrong language.
• Fixed an issue where page numbers were not marked as pagination artifacts.
• Fixed rendering issue after sending a support request.
• Fixed an issue where heading types are not being saved.
• Fixed an issue where the notifications from support requests were not closing.
• Fixed an issue with TOC detecting page numbers.
• Fixed an issue with path tags not being placed in Figure tags.
• Fixed an issue where a scanned document with OCR’ed text could not be processed.

February 12, 2026

New

• Trial CL Edu Subscription
• Training calendar links added to the support page.
• Update the welcome email with the Training Calendar links.

Addressed Issues

• Fixed an issue where the page becomes blank after sending a support request.
• Fixed an issue where the math model was not running during the auto-tag process.
• Fixed an issue with the "Contains Math" toggle showing for input formats other than PDF.
• Fixed several saving issues in the Advanced Editor.
• Fixed an issue with Mac users trying to select accessibility standards.

January 8, 2026

New

• CL Edu branded email changes. 
• CL Edu EULA agreement updated. 
• CL Edu support links added.
  

Addressed Issues

• Resolved slight discrepancies with the EULA agreement and the database   
• Incremental check not working correctly for two related checkpoints

December 9, 2025

New

• CL Edu support - All export types with access to the advanced editor.
• Auto tagging page limit has been introduced and defaulted at 500 pages.

Addressed Issues

• Updated welcome email wording based on user support. 
• Updated maintenance banner to not display Commonlook Online. 
• Username case sensitivity failing MFA login resolved.  
• Locked users can reset their password to unlock their account. 
• Several accessibility issues have been resolved.
• Toggles, buttons, color contrast

October 29, 2025

Patch:  Default MFA showing message for email fixed. Previously it was showing “source” in place of email in the screen shot below.

October 15, 2025

New

• The user will be locked out after multiple failed login attempts.
  • User accounts are locked after three incorrect password attempts
  • User accounts are unlocked automatically after 10 minutes
• If an account is locked, Allyant Support can unlock it manually
• Password reset has been improved with a clearer UI. Passwords are now checked against commonly used passwords and a new strength meter has been added.  Passwords are required to have at least 8 characters, an upper case letter, a lower case letter, a number, a symbol, and is not a commonly used password.

Addressed Issues

• Default MFA fixed to correctly be email.

September 25, 2025

New

• Prompt users to allow document restrictions to be removed before remediation

Addressed Issues

• Addressed incorrect status of deleted files from the advanced editor and access to deleted remediations in the advanced editor through bookmarks.

August 30, 2025

New

• Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled, by default for users with a web-based CommonLook PDF subscription

Addressed Issues

• Addressed issue of Advanced Editor not saving changes in some cases
• PDF Tagging corrections in the Simplified Editor (certain cases for images)

August 9, 2025

New

• Multi-factor authentication with e-mail address is now available
• Simplified Editor now supports more languages: English, French, Spanish, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese - Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Polish

Addressed Issues

• Threshold for detecting scanned documents is too high
• Footnote creating a Link OBJR & misnamed Note Tag
• A tag type of LI may not have notes as a parent
• LBody Tag incorrectly generated to hold footnote text
• Advanced editor not able to process a filename containing special characters
• Updated the Advanced Editor to use Standard Ports  (NOTE: This should not create any issues for users unless current Advanced Editor users bookmarked the "actual" webpage for the Advanced Editor itself.  However, if users have bookmarked the login page to web-based CommonLook PDF, there will be no issue getting to the Advanced Editor.)

July 22, 2025

New

• Email MFA text has been updated
• Updated the text when the document contains overlapping characters

Addressed Issues

• PDF generation updated to address many cases where the resulting PDF varied in appearance from the original 
• Fixed being able to run multiple validation standards on a Mac in the Advanced Editor
• Fixed a case where the Advanced Editor may crash when creating a list of Links

July 8, 2025

New

• "General Availability" release. 
• Auto-tag option is now available for the Advanced Editor.
• Click-through User Agreement will be displayed on first login.
• Default data retention increased to 365 days.
• Welcome e-mail content has been updated.

Addressed Issues

• Remediations started in the Advanced Editor not be displayed on the Dashboard page.
• Advanced Editor can’t open larger file sizes.
• Improvements and fixes throughout the Advanced Editor.