Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.23

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 2.0.23 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-3000] - Transparency Group issues
[PDFBOX-4398] - getLastSignatureDictionary modifies internal structure of PDDocument
[PDFBOX-5050] - NullPointerexception in AcroFormOrphanWidgetsProcessor.resolveNonRootField()
[PDFBOX-5060] - AcroForm PDTextField formatting lost when setting value
[PDFBOX-5063] - testCreateCheckBox fails on travis / github
[PDFBOX-5072] - java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
[PDFBOX-5078] - Failure to modify cropBox when splitting a PDF Page vertically into 2 pieces
[PDFBOX-5080] - Type1Parser.parseASCII throws inconsistent exceptions
[PDFBOX-5081] - CFFParser.ByteSource.readRealNumber can better throw IOException
[PDFBOX-5090] - Missing text extraction under certain conditions starting with apache pdfbox 2.0.18
[PDFBOX-5091] - Performance issue when converting PDF to image after upgrading from PDFBox 2.0.20 to 2.0.21
[PDFBOX-5094] - Wrong glyph when rendering a symbolic TTF font with WinANSIEncoding
[PDFBOX-5100] - Sometimes unneeded message "Removed /IDTree from /Names dictionary, doesn't belong there"
[PDFBOX-5104] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in isOwnerPassword
[PDFBOX-5105] - IllegalArgumentException in computeEncryptedKeyRev56
[PDFBOX-5106] - IllegalArgumentException in PDFObjectStreamParser.privateReadObjectNumbers
[PDFBOX-5107] - ClassCastException in COSStream.getFilterList
[PDFBOX-5108] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in PDFXrefStreamParser.parseValue
[PDFBOX-5115] - U+00AD ('sfthyphen') is not available in this font Times-Roman encoding: WinAnsiEncoding
[PDFBOX-5123] - OS2WindowsMetricsTable "version" variable confused with OpenType specification version
[PDFBOX-5124] - Improperly declared OS2WindowsMetricsTable version (v0 table declard as v3) in embedded font stops parsing with EOFException

Improvement

[PDFBOX-3017] - Improve document signing
[PDFBOX-5055] - Minor improvement
[PDFBOX-5103] - Allow reuse of subsetted fonts by inverting the ToUnicode CMap
[PDFBOX-5110] - improve performance in signature validation
[PDFBOX-5112] - Add more checks to PDFXrefStreamParser and reduce memory footprint
[PDFBOX-5116] - Add rotated box to ShowColorBoxes.java example
[PDFBOX-5121] - Use StringBuilder for key in PDDeviceN.toRGBWithTintTransform()
[PDFBOX-5122] - Don't use RGB loop in PDDeviceN.toRGBWithTintTransform()

Task

[PDFBOX-5045] - testFlattenOpenOfficeForm() has differences
[PDFBOX-5057] - Review CCITTFaxDecoder updates

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 https://pdfbox.apache.org/

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