---
title: "14.4.2 release notes"
canonical_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/dotnet/release-notes/14-4-2/"
md_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/dotnet/release-notes/14-4-2.md"
last_updated: "2026-05-21T17:12:02.215Z"
description: "Lists important changes for Nutrient .NET SDK 14.4.2"
---

Nutrient.NET SDK 14.4.2 is a patch release focused on Markdown export, Vision API extraction, Office conversion, and reliability improvements.

Below are the notable updates in this release.

## Markdown export and conversion

14.4.2 introduces expanded Markdown workflows across both conversion and extraction, including:

- Direct DOCX-to-Markdown conversion.

- Markdown export format for Vision API content extraction.

- New image export modes and inline formatting controls for Markdown and HTML output.

- Implicit conversion support for exporting non-PDF documents to Markdown and HTML formats.

## Vision API improvements

This release improves Vision API quality and performance, including:

- Word-level detection and bounding boxes for handwritten text.

- Better heading and table detection.

- Faster JSON export on large multipage documents.

- Improved text extraction accuracy on degraded scans through refined vision language model–optical character recognition (VLM-OCR) fusion heuristics.

## Office, PDF, and security updates

14.4.2 also includes:

- Support for flat Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) PowerPoint and Word documents.

- Improved rendering of text shadow and outline effects in Word documents.

- Improved PDF metadata handling and validation.

- Improved PDF/A conversion stability.

- A fix for PDF signing failures on Windows 11 under.NET Framework.

- An OpenMcdf upgrade to 3.1.3 to address the denial-of-service vulnerability CVE-2026-41511 when parsing crafted MSG files.

For the complete list of changes included in 14.4.2, refer to the [changelog](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/dotnet/changelog.md#14.4.2).
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## Related pages

- [14 4 1](/guides/dotnet/release-notes/14-4-1.md)
- [14 4](/guides/dotnet/release-notes/14-4.md)