v2.139.0 v2.140.0
docling-project/doclingOct 14, 2026 → Oct 16, 20262 days between releases
What's New
Added remote OpenAI-compatible ASR server support and enhanced AsciiDoc parsing styles.
New Features
- Added support for transcribing audio via remote OpenAI-compatible servers.
- Implemented native Distil-Whisper preset prefetching for performance.
- Added parsing support for bold, italic, and monospace text in AsciiDoc.
Improvements
- Improved ASR module performance by prefetching native Distil-Whisper presets.
- Enhanced AsciiDoc parsing capabilities to handle complex text styles.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed PPTX mapping of grouped shape boxes for accurate layout extraction.
- Corrected ODT processing by moving hidden sections to the invisible layer.
- Resolved reading-order issues by bounding page-separator candidate work.
The Two Releases
Oct 14, 2026· 8 days ago
This release introduces conversion progress bars and event callbacks for better user feedback, enhances parsing capabilities for Numbers and PPTX files, and includes numerous performance optimizations. It also addresses various bug fixes related to image handling, HTML decoding, and VLM streaming reliability.
Full release notesOct 16, 2026· 6 days ago
This release enhances the Audio Speech Recognition (ASR) module with new remote server support and native preset prefetching. It also improves AsciiDoc parsing capabilities and addresses several critical bugs in document processing for ODF, PPTX, and OCR components.
Full release notes