Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 1.8.17

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 1.8.16 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-1752] - Rendering PDF containing Jpeg2000 fails
[PDFBOX-4312] - Signature is not getting inserted into 00000 area
[PDFBOX-4330] - NumberFormatException in CFFParser.readRealNumber()
[PDFBOX-4332] - XMP dates contain time zone, while document info dates do not, and this isn't detected by preflight (2)
[PDFBOX-4360] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in ASCIIHexFilter
[PDFBOX-4372] - Stack overflow around PDFStreamEngine.processStream
[PDFBOX-4404] - Input streams passed to Font.createFont() are not always closed
[PDFBOX-4453] - Encrypted string not decrypted
[PDFBOX-4461] - PDFunctionType0.eval() damages its input
[PDFBOX-4466] - Signature without /Type /Sig can't be read
[PDFBOX-4494] - Problem with google noto bold font and hungarian characters
[PDFBOX-4497] - dash phase start should be float
[PDFBOX-4551] - Prevent printing from CL applications when not authorized
[PDFBOX-4582] - PDJpeg should throw IOException if the image isn't a JPEG
[PDFBOX-4586] - Annotation widgets without AP not detected by preflight
[PDFBOX-4622] - Various exceptions in TTFParser.parse
[PDFBOX-4654] - PDFToImage shows reader image formats in usage
[PDFBOX-4683] - Could not find referenced cmap stream Adobe-Japan1-7
[PDFBOX-4722] - TestTextStripper doesn't detect when less output
[PDFBOX-4727] - ExtractEmbeddedFiles.java example uses name tree keys as file names
[PDFBOX-4822] - Off-by-one error in PDSignature.getConvertedContents()
[PDFBOX-4839] - Iphone IOS able to open password PDF file without password
[PDFBOX-4849] - FlateFilter Inflater leaks
[PDFBOX-4902] - PDF/A validation fails when system time zone has minutes
[PDFBOX-4907] - Signature not detected by Acrobat Reader
[PDFBOX-4910] - Build test failure on OpenJDK "Invalid argument to native writeImage"
[PDFBOX-4911] - isartor-6-2-2-t02-fail-a.pdf fails on OpenJDK with ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
[PDFBOX-4913] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in ShadingContext.convertToRGB()
[PDFBOX-4969] - java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
[PDFBOX-5028] - Partial field names must not contain period characters
[PDFBOX-5033] - CFF FontParser exits with illegal offset in font
[PDFBOX-5127] - Multithreading issue in JempBox's DateConverter
[PDFBOX-5129] - 1.8 build test fails in com.ibm.icu.util.VersionInfo.getInstance()
[PDFBOX-5240] - preflight SMask entry check incorrect
[PDFBOX-5393] - NegativeArraySizeException in pfb parser with 0 byte pfb font file
[PDFBOX-5459] - NullPointerException in PDFunctionType3.eval()

Improvement

[PDFBOX-3192] - Animal sniffer maven plugin doesn't detect non java 5 api usage within the 1.8 branch
[PDFBOX-4420] - Correct javadoc comment
[PDFBOX-4641] - Keywords created using PDFBox are not visible in Acrobat

Task

[PDFBOX-4933] - Correct PDFBOX-1777 to PDFBOX-1977 in tests
[PDFBOX-5165] - Exceedingly slow processing of XMPSchemaMediaManagement's getHistory in JempBox

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 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 https://pdfbox.apache.org/

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