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What is the latest version of iText? And what is the maven dependency for that?
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5 Answers
You need to pay attention to the license for the Java version of iText:
- iText
2.1.7
: the latest official release by iText Group NV, under theMPL
&GPL
license, withcom.lowagie
groupId; - iText
4.2.1
: the latest unofficial release by ymasory/InProTopia, under theMPL
&GPL
license, withcom.lowagie
groupId; - iText
5.0.0
and higher: released by iText Group NV, under theAGPL
license, withcom.itextpdf
groupId. One monolithic jar. - iText
7.0.0
and higher: released by iText Group NV, under theAGPL
license, withcom.itextpdf
groupId. Several modular jars.
Here you can find 2.1.7 and 4.2.x versions on Maven Repository:
Find before 5.x versions:http://search.maven.org/#search gav 1 g%3A%22com.lowagie%22%20AND%20a%3A%22itext%22
Project Maven Pdf
Find 5.x versions:http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cgav%7C1%7Cg%3A%22com.itextpdf%22%20AND%20a%3A%22itextpdf%22
You may want to stick with the MPL & GPL versions, unless you are available to follow the AGPL license specification...
EDIT: You should pay attention on which version you are choosing;
According to Bruno Lowagie comment, versions 2.1.x are deprecated and should not be used due to technical and legal reasons.
Amedee Van Gasselooks like 5.3.5 is not in repository yet so 5.3.4 works for me:
As with many (any?) open-source library, their website contains a changelog. iText's one can be found here.
And as of today, the latest version is 5.5.97.0.0.
The dependency for version 5.5.9 would be

iText 7 was released in May 2016. iText 7 is no longer one monolithic jar file, like iText 5 used to be. You use only those modules you need.
Put this in your POM file:
This, and more information, can be found on https://developers.itextpdf.com/itext-7-java
Joris Schellekens