paperless-ngx v2.20.13 released on 21-03-2026
paperless-ngx v2.20.13 is out now. It stops the UI from offering OCR/text correction suggestions when there are no visible search results, and tightens permission and validation checks to reduce confusing suggestions, unnecessary backend queries and inadvertent data exposure.
See the project on GitHub for full release notes and downloads.
What’s in this release
- Suggest corrections only if visible results — the UI no longer offers OCR/text correction suggestions when searches return no visible results, improving UX and performance.
- Require view permission for more-like search — the similar-document (“more-like”) search now enforces document view permissions before returning results, preventing users from discovering documents they are not authorised to see.
- Validate document link targets — document links are checked to ensure targets exist and are acceptable, reducing broken or potentially unsafe links and improving data integrity and navigation.
Upgrade notes
- No breaking changes are listed, but note that attaching accounts to mail rules now requires the appropriate account permissions; check account permissions before modifying mail-rule configurations.
- If you need to revert, roll back to an earlier release and restore any affected configuration from backups as required.
Share comments or report any issues on the project’s GitHub issue tracker — we’d be interested to hear how these changes affect your workflows.