Where is the changelog for v18.3?

Where is the changelog for v18.3?

Posted by: mike on 6 November 2025, 3:29 pm EST

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  mike

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  Posted 6 November 2025, 3:29 pm EST

  v18.3 is nearly a month old, but there is still no changelog / whats new docmentation for it.

  Where can I find out the changes that are included in this release?

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  Posted 7 November 2025, 2:11 am EST

  Hi Mike,

  Unfortunately, there are no formal Release Notes for ActiveReports 18.3, however, following are the changes that took place in ActiveReports v18.3:

  *[AR-36303][18JP] WebViewer samples fail to build
  
  [AR-36297][AR18.3 CN]The “Page” and “Section” icons are smaller than the rest of the icons
  
  [AR-36296]Two AR 18 Standalone Report items are present upon adding a new item to AR project
  
  [AR-36295][AR18] Toc links from pdf in Adobe Reader’s bookmarks panel jump to wrong page or position
  
  [AR-36287][AR18.2JP] NU1701 warning when adding Code-Based Report item
  
  [AR-36274]Changes in code-based reports are saved without clicking the ‘Save’ button
  
  [AR-36272][AR18.3EN, AR18.2JP] Unable to add a dataset for JSON provider and a PostgreSQL data source in EUD
  
  [AR-36270][AR18]Converter doesn’t remove Grapecity references after conversion
  
  [AR-36258][Classic EUD] The Report drop-down list is stuck on trying to set Master report
  
  [AR-36248][AR18.3] The ‘Failed to open report’ error in the upgraded WebViewer_ASP.NET sample
  
  [AR-36239]TextBox with expression with delayed content in Win Viewer hidden after refresh
  
  [AR-36236][AR18JP] Localize Print dialog for code-based report
  
  [AR-36232]Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Data.SQLite’ error appears upon trying to open a Dashboard report with reels.db in JSViewer
  
  [AR-36228]The report with images that are not found shows an error in JSViewer
  
  [AR-36224][AR18JP] Adding a new report removes references from Core project
  
  [AR-36220][AR18JP] Error upon validating Dataset for SQLite DataProvider
  
  [AR-36217][AR18.3] Project dependencies aren’t installed after the upgrade of the designer win samples from 18.2
  
  [AR-36212][AR18.3] VS integration is broken
  
  [AR-36202][AR18.2JP] MVC Websamples can’t be built
  
  [AR-36198][AR18.3] In Visual Studio, the Report Data Source dialog is not invoked when adding a Section Report
  
  [AR-36194]‘Data Source’ for Json is not localized to JP and CN
  
  [AR-36192]Failed to draw Chart error occurs upon changing data source for the Chart
  
  [AR-36190]Section Chart wizard/VS designer: Values for X don’t appear if data source is OLEdb
  
  [AR-36187]‘Object reference…’ exception occurs upon previewing code-based section report
  
  [AR-36185][AR18] Adding section report as a new item by double-click causes error in VS
  
  [AR-36178]Introduce possibility to export invisible text in TextExport
  
  [AR-36175][PageReport][Image] | Image from external sources (internet) not rendered on preview.
  
  [AR-36138][AR18.2JP] Converter doesn’t remove Grapecity references after convertion to AR 18 version
  
  [AR-36133][AR19.2] WebViewer upgrade fails as ‘An item with the same key has already been added’ error
  
  [AR-36125]The report created in v16 with curly brackets in the file name can’t be opened in WebDesigner
  
  [AR-36108][18.0J] When SQLite is set as the data source, the IDE designer preview cannot be displayed
  
  [AR-36107]Inconsistent display of formatted text controls during design and preview
  
  [AR-36105][AR 18.3-20] RTB is empty in PDF exported from RPX report in GDI mode
  
  [AR-36070][AR19.2] RichTextBox rendering changes in section report
  
  [AR-36057][18.0J] When you set “Center Align” or “Right Align” in Web Designer, the text input field is displayed misaligned
  
  [AR-36030][AR18] AR Visual Studio integration options don’t work as expected
  
  [AR-36020][18.0J] ClassName property cannot be set in the designer of a Code-based Section Report
  
  [AR-36013][16.0J] In some cases, it may not be possible to output the aggregate value of another table to a table cell
  
  [AR-35989][Preview] | Report throws NullReferenceException in v18 but works in v19 (without any obvious reason).
  
  [AR-35984][AR18] RPX: Duplicated New Style properties in Chart
  
  [AR-35983][AR18JP] RPX: Error upon accessing New Style properties in Chart
  
  [AR-35931][EN18.3/JP18.2] Upgrade log doesn’t contain all the required information
  
  [AR-35912][WebViewer] Unable to fetch report Info after refresh
  
  [AR-35895]Setup Automated samples build test in AR 18 version
  
  [AR-35847][18.0J] When setting an event for “SectionDocument”, the event set under “SectionDocument.Printer” may be initialized
  
  [AR-35821][18.0J] When using “PageNumber” etc. as an expression for Container’s Visibility.Hidden, the controls inside the Container may be displayed
  
  [AR-35820]EUD: Null reference exception with MESCIUS.ActiveReports.Design.Win.Internal…PropagateCulture in the stack trace
  
  [AR-35816][18.0J] When you select a control in the designer, it may be displayed with a red frame even if it is not overlapping.
  
  [AR-35788]AR18 date filter localization issue
  
  [AR-35787]Rtl textbox shows content as Ltr in PDF output
  
  [AR-35733][18.0J] When you execute “Remove Spacing” from the toolbar in Web Designer, strange behavior may occur
  
  [AR-35701][18.0J] NuGet package references are removed when adding a new report to a .NET project
  
  [AR-35666][18.0J] Tablix “RepeatToFill” property behavior
  
  [AR-35658][18.0J] When loading an rpx file into the Code Base Section Report, garbled characters may appear
  
  [AR-35576]During preview, the report is not displayed completely.
  
  [AR-35544][AR18.2.2] Build fails in WebSamples due to unresolved types in licenses.licx
  
  [AR-35528]PdfRE: ���?��� is shown instead of total number of pages
  
  [AR-35498]In section report, chart’s axis title property is not available in AxisBase Collection Editor
  
  [AR-35490]Fix printing custom paper size problems in AR 18.
  
  [AR-35422][18.0J] Unnecessary properties are displayed on the marker labels in the line chart of a section report
  
  [AR-35419]Add GIF images support in section reports
  
  [AR-35415][18.0J] When displaying consecutive pages in the Blazor viewer, the “Previous page” or “First page” button cannot be used to move to the first page
  
  [AR-35245][AR18JP] Error in VS designer after conversion of large size code-based report
  
  [AR-35178][18.0J] Scrollbar of BlazorViewer is hard to see compared to the previous version (v16)
  
  [AR-35174][18.0J] In section reports, gif images are converted to JPEG, but the quality is worse than in previous versions (12J)
  
  [AR-35152][Form JP]Inconsistent display of formatted text controls during design and preview
  
  [AR-35146][AR18.2.2] App.config causes error when upgraded project is compiled
  
  [AR-35138][18.0J] The size of the PDF file is larger than the previous version (12J)
  
  [AR-35113][18.0J] NullReferenceException occurs when setting null to subreport of section report
  
  [AR-35017]I cannot customize WebViewer toolbar, when I set WebViewer.Report property.
  
  [AR-34918]When I set GDI mode in .NET, voicing mark and half-voicing mark are not rendered correctly, with “Justify” alignment.
  
  [AR-34903]SectionReport.PrintProgress event does not fire.
  
  [AR-34895]An error is thrown, when I set watermark image for section report.
  
  [AR-34894]Improve the scroll bar style, make it clearer when previewing the report
  
  [AR-34868][18.0J] I want to implement a property equivalent to “InstalledPrinters”
  
  [AR-34843]When I print a section report with custom paper size from Viewer print button, a different paper size is applied.
  
  [AR-34829]I cannot set MySql data source in section report, in some cases.
  
  [AR-34805]In v18 SP1 JP, file converter does not install some dependency NuGet packages.
  
  [AR-34757][18.0J] When a section report containing a metafile image is migrated using the file converter, an error occurs when opening the report in the designer.
  
  [AR-34753][AR18 JP] Warnings in VS 2022 when some template projects are built with net8
  
  [AR-34741]In v18, event order is changed, so I cannot get the first row data in ReportStart event.
  
  [AR-34733]When I print section report, with paper size and orientation are mixed, paper size is not applied correctly.
  
  [AR-34714]In EUD, I cannot drag & drop image on designer surface.
  
  [AR-34709]In EUD, multiple TextBox controls are not added to toolbox.
  
  [AR-34703]���Could not load file of assembly System.Diagnostic.DiagnosticSource��� error on validation of MySQL.
  
  [AR-34701]Web designer, in page report, “PageNumberInSection” and “TotalPagesInSection” are not displayed in expression editor.
  
  [AR-34699]PrinterName property is reset to default, when I set SectionDocument event.
  
  [AR-34691]JS Viewer, document name in print queue is not correct, when printed in Edge.
  
  [AR-34667]With center aligned textbox, heading blank spaces are removed, when exported to Excel.
  
  [AR-34648]Report’s default paper size and margin are applied, when I combine page report with CombineMode.SubReports
  
  [AR-34643]The PrintDialog resources are not localized to JP in VS
  
  [AR-34638]Layer’s TargetDevice setting is ignored, when I use CombineMode.ReportSections
  
  [AR-34596][16.0J] When loading a report file from a resource in a Linux environment, the JSON data source connection fails
  
  [AR-34561][18.0J] An error occurs when displaying DateOnly type data in a TextBox with OutputFormat set in a section report
  
  [AR-34557][AR18] AR19 Page report with Chart breaks WebDesigner
  
  [AR-34505][18.0J] When the Script tab of the Designer control is hidden, the position of the Preview tab does not change.
  
  [AR-34492][AR18] System.Text.Json warning upon building ODataDataSource sample
  
  [AR-34491][AR18] Error upon building some MVC websamples
  
  [AR-34480]In section report, parameter is not set to barcode.
  
  [AR-34478]Report is not rendered in WebViewer, if I set responseEncoding=“Shift_JIS”
  
  [AR-34470][18.0J] Setting the Blazor Viewer’s DefaultExportSettings will prevent printing
  
  [AR-34469][18.0J] Even if I encrypt a PDF file and then set “Permissions”, the security permissions are not set in the PDF
  
  [AR-34431][18.0J] In the page report, it may not be possible to draw a line to the right edge of the paper.
  
  [AR-34392]“=ReportItems!textbox1.Value” is not displayed in preview.
  
  [AR-34361][AR18.3 EN JP] Upgrade log reports incorrect uninstalled versions of System references
  
  [AR-34236][18.0J] When changing the display magnification of the Blazor viewer, half-width characters and full-width characters may overlap
  
  [AR-34002][16.0J] When exporting a report with a detail section overlaid on a code section report to PDF, characters may not be displayed
  
  [AR-33911][16.0J] Even if you set “PrintAtBottom=True” in BandedList, the footer may be displayed at the top of the page

  Regards,
  
  Prabhat Sharma.

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  mike

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  Posted 7 November 2025, 12:33 pm EST

  That is quite the list, thank you.