Stay up to date with the latest Docling updates, new features, and improvements. Here's what changed in 2026.
Notable additions include audio file ingestion with transcription, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server so MCP
compatible agents and IDEs can call Docling as a tool, and tighter integration with IBM's Granite
Docling and the compact SmolDocling vision
language models for image
The project also moved under the LF AI & Data Foundation umbrella as docling
project, broadening governance beyond IBM, and continued to add ecosystem integrations (Crew AI, Haystack, txtai) alongside maturing the layout
aware HybridChunker for RAG.
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Changelog last updated March 2026