Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.24

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-5051] - Slow rendering for specific PDF file
[PDFBOX-5134] - Very slow rendering on PageDrawer.shadingFill
[PDFBOX-5135] - Glyphs missed in rendering
[PDFBOX-5137] - Wrong classification of an JPEG image leading to a blank image added to a pdf document
[PDFBOX-5138] - Embedded files not extracted from PDF files with multilevel EmbeddedFiles tree
[PDFBOX-5150] - 3.0.0-RC1: PDComboBox.setValue() throws IllegalArgumentException: /DA is a required entry
[PDFBOX-5151] - Issue with COSObjectKey::fixGeneration
[PDFBOX-5155] - Error extracting text from PDF - Can't read the embedded Type1 font FDFBJU+NewsGothic
[PDFBOX-5156] - Error in identification of PDF comment symbol % as a token separator with PDF names
[PDFBOX-5163] - Stack overflow when reading a corrupt dictionary
[PDFBOX-5168] - dash pattern [0] should be invisible
[PDFBOX-5175] - Behaviour change in 2.0.20 due to use of IOUtils.populateBuffer in SecurityHandler.prepareAESInitializationVector leading to IOException for certain PDF
[PDFBOX-5176] - java.io.IOException: Page tree root must be a dictionary
[PDFBOX-5180] - Snapshot Deploy not working
[PDFBOX-5187] - TSAClient with username+password
[PDFBOX-5188] - COSOutputStream.flush doesn't call super
[PDFBOX-5190] - BaseParser: stack overflow when reading a corrupt pdf
[PDFBOX-5191] - isEmbeddingPermitted() is too restrictive on TTFs with OS2 table versions 0-2
[PDFBOX-5192] - Wild rendering when repeating truetype glyph flag is outside of range
[PDFBOX-5193] - v2.0.22 and v3.0.0-RC1 PDF Debugger app crashes with java.lang.NullPointerException
[PDFBOX-5194] - CreateCheckBox example draws too large, clipped checkmark
[PDFBOX-5196] - Wrong color space detected for some Jpeg images
[PDFBOX-5199] - Possible memory leak after calling decode filter
[PDFBOX-5204] - Ink annotation not rendered

Improvement

[PDFBOX-5093] - Pass PDFRenderer to PDFPrintable constructor
[PDFBOX-5141] - Create tests for HelloWorld examples
[PDFBOX-5145] - Faster PDImageXObject.applyMask
[PDFBOX-5154] - Custom folder for fonts in FontMapper
[PDFBOX-5157] - allow to make timestamp only signature "LTV"
[PDFBOX-5164] - Create portable collection PDF
[PDFBOX-5177] - Optimize memory footprint of PDFObjectStreamParser
[PDFBOX-5183] - Add getter/setter for suppressDuplicateOverlappingText in PDFMarkedContentExtractor
[PDFBOX-5200] - Cache PageTree in PDFPrintable
[PDFBOX-5201] - Add Adobe Illustrator COSNames
[PDFBOX-5208] - Make constructors of CIDSystemInfo and PDPanoseClassification public

Wish

[PDFBOX-5198] - When merging multiple pdf ua documents, Tags become nested

Task

[PDFBOX-5133] - Failing testFlattenPDFBox2469Filled on Ubuntu
[PDFBOX-5184] - Add test for PDFMarkedContentExtractor class
[PDFBOX-5186] - Create test for CreateGradientShadingPDF

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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