Question: What is the latest version of iText? And what is the maven dependency for that?

Answer: 
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:

```
<dependencies>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
    <artifactId>barcodes</artifactId>
    <version>7.0.0</version>
    <!-- barcodes depends on kernel -->
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
    <artifactId>font-asian</artifactId>
    <version>7.0.0</version>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
    <artifactId>forms</artifactId>
    <version>7.0.0</version>
    <!-- forms depends on kernel and layout -->
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
      <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
      <artifactId>hyph</artifactId>
      <version>7.0.0</version>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
    <artifactId>io</artifactId>
    <version>7.0.0</version>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
    <artifactId>kernel</artifactId>
    <version>7.0.0</version>
    <!-- kernel depends on io -->
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
    <artifactId>layout</artifactId>
    <version>7.0.0</version>
    <!-- layout depends on kernel -->
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
    <artifactId>pdfa</artifactId>
    <version>7.0.0</version>
    <!-- pdfa depends on kernel -->
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
    <artifactId>sign</artifactId>
    <version>7.0.0</version>
    <!-- sign depends on kernel, layout and forms -->
  </dependency>

</dependencies>

```

This, and more information, can be found on <https://developers.itextpdf.com/itext-7-java>
```
This was the latest release as of today

<!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.itextpdf/itextpdf -->

<dependency>
<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
<artifactId>itextpdf</artifactId>
<version>5.5.9</version>
</dependency>

```