Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.12

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 2.0.11 release. It contains
a couple of fixes and small improvements.

For more details on these changes and all the other fixes and improvements
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-4013] - Java 9/macOS: Debugger App does not start (NoSuchMethodException)
[PDFBOX-4219] - Multithreading problem when rendering several documents with Standard 14 fonts
[PDFBOX-4242] - Fontbox does not close file descriptor when loading fonts.
[PDFBOX-4245] - wrong rendering of the transparency group at the specific position on a page
[PDFBOX-4254] - PDDocument.close() might ignore throwing an Exception
[PDFBOX-4266] - Java 6 error
[PDFBOX-4267] - Incorrect rendering when /Matte entry
[PDFBOX-4268] - Japanese text displayed as barcode
[PDFBOX-4276] - Multiply blend mode not detected
[PDFBOX-4278] - Type 3 font .notdef-named glyph missing in rendering
[PDFBOX-4279] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in PDDeviceGray.toRGB
[PDFBOX-4283] - Allowing Rectangles with additional elements
[PDFBOX-4288] - needless adding while parsing dictionary objects
[PDFBOX-4291] - JavaDoc on website is marked as being in German
[PDFBOX-4292] - Validation fails if ModifyDate and ModDate are specified using different time zones
[PDFBOX-4298] - NullPointerException when doing overlay
[PDFBOX-4299] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in CmapSubtable.processSubtype2
[PDFBOX-4301] - ClassCastException in PDExtendedGraphicsState
[PDFBOX-4302] - ToUnicode CMap is not written correctly when the entry count is just 100.
[PDFBOX-4305] - Log message not in english
[PDFBOX-4306] - Image clipping area rounding error
[PDFBOX-4307] - ClassCastException in PDDocumentCatalog.getDocumentOutline if 'outlines' is not a dictionary
[PDFBOX-4308] - PDDocument protect changes color palette
[PDFBOX-4315] - PDFBox info message when not using it
[PDFBOX-4316] - RemoveAllText does not delete all parameters with " operator
[PDFBOX-4318] - PDFont.encode results change on identical input
[PDFBOX-4319] - Parsing 100000 page pdf is slow
[PDFBOX-4322] - Extract Text feature is not working for some part of PDF

Improvement

[PDFBOX-4184] - [PATCH]: Support simple lossless compression of 16 bit RGB images
[PDFBOX-4253] - Optimize PDFunctionType3.eval()
[PDFBOX-4256] - Return default value for CheckBox / RadioButton if /V entry is missing (widget /AS entries are present)
[PDFBOX-4259] - Add polygon annotation to AddAnnotations.java example
[PDFBOX-4260] - Reduce RAM requirement of COSOutputStream
[PDFBOX-4263] - Check object key when signing
[PDFBOX-4271] - Consistently using the same version of the download-maven-plugin
[PDFBOX-4274] - Get rid of warning about prerequisites
[PDFBOX-4285] - Expose the tiff compression type to the user.
[PDFBOX-4289] - Double negative number
[PDFBOX-4295] - Don't create intermediate streams when merging files

Task

[PDFBOX-4281] - Replace Apache Wink dependency

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 a SHA512 checksum 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://www.apache.org/dist/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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