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Every phpdocx version includes new features and improvements. Previously unsupported features may have been added to newer releases, or past issues may have been corrected.
The firstMatch option is available in many template methods such as replaceVariableByText or replacePlaceholderImage. But the searchAndReplace method doesn't include it.