Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 1.8.10

Introduction
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The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents.

This is an incremental bugfix release based on the earlier 1.8.10 release. It 
contains a couple of fixes and small improvements.

For more details on all fixes included in this release, please refer to the following
issues on the PDFBox issue tracker at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX.

Bug

[PDFBOX-1453] - NPE saving modified encrypted document
[PDFBOX-1642] - NPE when parsing XMP schema definition with "closed Choice" value type
[PDFBOX-2501] - Page render without barcode
[PDFBOX-2730] - PDFSplit slow and keeps unused pages
[PDFBOX-2733] - Nullpointer exception in PDFXrefStreamParser.parse
[PDFBOX-2734] - Can't create PDF with DeviceN colorspace
[PDFBOX-2737] - PDF not converted to Image
[PDFBOX-2741] - IndexOutOfBoundsException when calling PDSeparation.setAlternateColorSpace
[PDFBOX-2742] - PDFSplit ignores global resources
[PDFBOX-2743] - Can't create PDF with PDIndexed colorspace
[PDFBOX-2745] - PDPageXYZDestination zoom property can't be set lower than 100%
[PDFBOX-2767] - ClassCastException in PDDocument.addSignature
[PDFBOX-2769] - NPE when saving encrypted file
[PDFBOX-2772] - EI token lost for rewrite
[PDFBOX-2773] - ClassCastException in PDDocumentCatalog.java:339
[PDFBOX-2778] - PDF to Image conversion fails with "Invalid code word encountered"
[PDFBOX-2781] - Opening pdf document after encrypting it with PDFBox throws IllegalBlockSizeException
[PDFBOX-2786] - PDPageDestination page index off by one
[PDFBOX-2788] - Seemingly good document gets semi-corrupted
[PDFBOX-2792] - Text extraction ignores bookmarks
[PDFBOX-2793] - /Dests dictionary isn't supported
[PDFBOX-2797] - PDJavascriptNameTreeNode does not support dictionaries
[PDFBOX-2799] - PDOptionalContentProperties.setGroupEnabled not working
[PDFBOX-2801] - SecurityHandler does not tolerate plain-text COSString
[PDFBOX-2811] - Infinite loop within RandomAccessBuffer
[PDFBOX-2812] - NPE in PDColorSpaceFactory.createColorSpace with PDICCBased
[PDFBOX-2819] - invalid ICC Profile when reading from a byte array
[PDFBOX-2823] - StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when doing DateConverter.parseDate()
[PDFBOX-2837] - PDFBox creates files with EBCDIC code on z/OS
[PDFBOX-2847] - mergeDocumentsNonSeq does not utilize scratchFile
[PDFBOX-2853] - CCITT: Background is rendered as transparent color
[PDFBOX-2867] - Correct use of Float.NaN

Improvement

[PDFBOX-2744] - Add validation check for setNonStrokingColor and setStrokingColor

Release Contents
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This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release.

The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/KEYS.

About Apache PDFBox
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Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents.
This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing
documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox
also includes several command line utilities. Apache PDFBox is published
under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

For more information, visit http://pdfbox.apache.org/

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