We’re happy to announce the GroupDocs.Total for Python v26.11 release, available as of November 2026. This update introduces five new products into the Total suite—Parser, Search, Annotation, Editor, and Markdown—and upgrades all existing components to their latest versions, broadening Python version support and platform coverage.

What’s new in this release

The following products were updated or added in this version:

  • GroupDocs.Conversion for Python via .NET (25.12 → 26.9.0)
  • GroupDocs.Viewer for Python via .NET (25.12 → 26.9.0)
  • GroupDocs.Comparison for Python via .NET (25.12 → 26.5.0)
  • GroupDocs.Watermark for Python via .NET (25.12 → 26.10.0)
  • GroupDocs.Metadata for Python via .NET (25.10 → 26.9.0)
  • GroupDocs.Merger for Python via .NET (25.3 → 26.6.0)
  • GroupDocs.Assembly for Python via .NET (25.5.1 → 26.11.0)
  • GroupDocs.Redaction for Python via .NET (25.10 → 26.6.0)
  • GroupDocs.Signature for Python via .NET (26.1 → 26.10.0)
  • GroupDocs.Parser for Python via .NET (new: 26.10.0)
  • GroupDocs.Search for Python via .NET (new: 26.10.0)
  • GroupDocs.Annotation for Python via .NET (new: 26.6.0)
  • GroupDocs.Editor for Python via .NET (new: 26.5.0)
  • GroupDocs.Markdown for Python via .NET (new: 26.3.0)

New in this release

  • Five new products added:

    • GroupDocs.Parser: extracts text, tables, images, metadata, and barcodes from documents.
    • GroupDocs.Search: builds full-text indexes and performs searches across documents.
    • GroupDocs.Annotation: adds annotations, markups, and comments to documents and images.
    • GroupDocs.Editor: edits documents via HTML and saves them back to original formats.
    • GroupDocs.Markdown: converts documents to Markdown.

  • Expanded Python and platform support:

    • Now supports Python 3.5 through 3.14 (previously up to 3.13 in v26.3).
    • Every product ships wheels for Windows (x64), Linux (x86_64) and macOS (Intel & Apple Silicon). In v26.3, Assembly had Windows wheels only, Redaction had no Linux wheel and Merger had no Apple Silicon wheel.
    • Linux requires glibc 2.27+, macOS 13+.
    • 32-bit Windows no longer supported (no win32 wheels).
    • Total download size: ~2.2 GB per platform; disk usage: ~3.2 GB.

Public API changes

The metapackage has no API of its own. Each product lists its API changes in its own release notes, which the full release notes link.

New features

GroupDocs.Parser, GroupDocs.Search, GroupDocs.Annotation, GroupDocs.Editor, and GroupDocs.Markdown are newly introduced into the suite. Each brings its own set of APIs and capabilities:

  • GroupDocs.Parser: Enables extraction of structured content such as tables and barcodes.
  • GroupDocs.Search: Provides powerful full-text search capabilities across document collections.
  • GroupDocs.Annotation: Allows adding and managing annotations like highlights, underlines, and sticky notes.
  • GroupDocs.Editor: Facilitates document editing by converting to and from HTML.
  • GroupDocs.Markdown: Converts documents to Markdown format for documentation and portability.

Code example

To use multiple products in one Python script on Windows, set the environment variable before importing any product:

import os

os.environ["DOTNET_MULTILEVEL_LOOKUP"] = "0"

from groupdocs.viewer import Viewer
from groupdocs.conversion import Converter

Known issues

  • Several products in one script on Windows. On a machine with a newer .NET installed system-wide, Viewer, Metadata, Annotation, Comparison, Editor, Merger and Redaction load that runtime instead of their own, and the second of them in one process fails with RuntimeError: hostfxr_get_runtime_delegate failed with 0x800080a3. Set DOTNET_MULTILEVEL_LOOKUP to 0 at the top of the script, as in the example above.
  • Uninstalling one product removes three shared modules from the others: groupdocs/__init__.py, groupdocs/pydrawing and groupdocs/pycore, which every product wheel installs. from groupdocs.viewer import Color then fails. Reinstall one product without its dependencies to restore them: pip install --force-reinstall --no-deps groupdocs-viewer-net==26.9.0.
  • On Python 3.5, the copy of groupdocs/pydrawing that pip installs last does not compile. Run the same command after installing.

How to get the update

PyPI

Install or upgrade via PyPI:

pip install groupdocs-total-net==26.11.0

🔗 PyPI package page

Direct download

Download the .whl metapackage directly from the GroupDocs.Total for Python v26.11 download page. It only lists the 14 products, which pip then downloads from PyPI; to install without internet access, see Installation.

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