New in the SumatraPDF [pre-release builds](https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/prerelease):

## Extract Text From Document

New `Extract Text From Document` command (`CmdDocumentExtractText`) in the `Ctrl + k` command palette saves the text of a document's pages to a .txt file.

## Better comic book archive support (libarchive)

Comic book archives (.cbz, .cbr, .cb7, .cbt) are now read with libarchive, which adds support for more archive variants, including bzip2 compression. RAR archives are opened with libarchive first, falling back to unrar.dll.

## DDE Open can reuse the current tab

The `[Open]` DDE command now honors its `inCurrentTab` flag: setting it to 1 opens the file in the current tab instead of a new one ([#4079](https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/4079)).

## EPUB file list in Properties

Document Properties (`Ctrl + D`) for EPUB files now shows the list of files inside the book.

![Document Properties for an EPUB book listing the files inside it](https://files.sumatrapdfreader.org/assets/sumatrapdf/changelog/img/epub-properties-files-4642.png)

## Own Explorer icons for CHM and DjVu

The installer registers distinct File Explorer icons for .chm and .djvu files, so they no longer look like PDFs.

More: [changes from April 5, 2026](https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Changelog-2026-04-05) and the [full changelog](https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Changelog).