What's New In Reportlab 4.4.0

_(Released on 17 April 2025)

Changes to ReportLab and ReportLabPLUS

• Experimental support for Right to Left text (RTL), used in Arabic and Hebrew
• Experimental support for character shaping using Harfbuzz, used for many south asian languages and Arabic

Changes to ReportLab PLUS

• Improvement accessibility tagging for tables
  • support for tagging the follow-on tables when split over pages
  • Added support for blockTable caption and summary attributes(Accessibility)
• attributes to enable Shaping and RTL
• many small fixes

See the documentation on Arabic and Accessibility