v2.111.0

teamhanko/hankov2.111.0Jul 8, 2026by docling-ops[bot]

AI Summary

This release adds BoxNote document backend support, enhances Excel parsing to handle native charts, and extends CLI output formats. It also includes critical security fixes for subprocess handling and interpreter shutdown crashes.

Key Highlights

Added BoxNote document backend support
Parse native Excel charts into classified pictures
Extend CLI output formats with chunk in JSONL
Guard against subprocess calls and interpreter shutdown crashes

New Features

BoxNote document backend
Excel native chart parsing
JSONL chunk output format in CLI

Full Release Notes

### Feature

* **msexcel:** Parse native charts into classified pictures ([#3756](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3756)) ([`ceeeda9`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/ceeeda996675127ce8ed60e66467709cf6c52106))
* **boxnote:** Add a BoxNote document backend ([#3722](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3722)) ([`4b4b9d8`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/4b4b9d8c923dc0249feb84af4c6e1d5fbe4162a4))
* **cli:** Extend output formats with chunk in jsonl format ([#3732](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3732)) ([`fbd39b8`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/fbd39b870859afbae21645ebe0e417109777da5a))

### Fix

* Guard against None _log in CodeFormulaVlmModel.__del__ during interpreter shutdown ([#3534](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3534)) ([`52b8bdb`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/52b8bdbecee98591784a70609b81f7c22749d411))
* Sanitize subprocess call in tesseract_ocr_cli_model.py ([#3283](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3283)) ([`dbaf9ff`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/dbaf9ff26663ad73ce4f529c080ec0308aebd511))
* **docx:** Ignore heading numPr when numFmt is none ([#3760](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3760)) ([`dc4c0bb`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/dc4c0bb041feaf0924cf4e26582d6f5c11b4a721))
* **deps:** Require python-docx>=1.2.0 for DOCX comment extraction ([#3770](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3770)) ([`63cb843`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/63cb843ee978ca360423e4cf3830d603cae1c528))
* Make DCLX naturally included page-images ([#3765](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3765)) ([`88b1a09`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/88b1a09d7c932d6ecd090c913d2259c91133ed4f))
* Guard backend imports to prevent ImportError on slim installs ([#3751](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3751)) ([`2ec33bc`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/2ec33bc70e2331f77858489cb5f8e37e94901090))

### Documentation

* **deepseekocr:** Fix parse_deepseekocr_markdown Args docstring ([#3766](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3766)) ([`d93579a`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/d93579a8d7dc4ff45999d65334a5dedc1e2cedc2))
* Plan for DoclingDocument version compatibility ([#3761](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3761)) ([`fe72816`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/fe72816f849c42d1fb467f5c18308c4dcf8abd15))