Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.28

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 2.0.27 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-4531] - Extraction of Arabic PDF has incorrect ordering of normalized ligatures
[PDFBOX-5178] - Parsing differences between 2.0.23 and 2.0.24/3.0
[PDFBOX-5521] - Signing tries to set byteRange of old signature
[PDFBOX-5523] - Bug in org/apache/pdfbox/multipdf/Overlay#overlay(specificPageOverlayFile)
[PDFBOX-5524] - Inactive OCGs shown when not top level
[PDFBOX-5525] - Null pointer exception in PDFASchemaType.getNamespaceURI()
[PDFBOX-5540] - export:text creates jibberish / malformed output
[PDFBOX-5552] - ArrayIndexOutOfBounds in SampledImageReader.fromAny()
[PDFBOX-5553] - PDFRenderer resulting image has black background
[PDFBOX-5555] - NPE due to a malformed rectangle
[PDFBOX-5557] - Fix meta markup in HTML generation
[PDFBOX-5562] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in CFFCIDFont class
[PDFBOX-5563] - Can't open PDF with PDFBox: java.awt.color.CMMException: LCMS error 13: Couldn't link the profiles
[PDFBOX-5566] - ClassCastException in ShadingFill.process()
[PDFBOX-5567] - Font gets smaller for each rendered page
[PDFBOX-5572] - fix some logging inconsistencies
[PDFBOX-5577] - NPE in PDFMergerUtility.acroFormLegacyMode()
[PDFBOX-5582] - Avoid OOME when parsing an malformed pdf with a corrupted object stream

Improvement

[PDFBOX-5526] - Apply subsampling and region to masks
[PDFBOX-5534] - Remove finalize from ScratchFileBuffer
[PDFBOX-5549] - Invisible signature field is not referenced from /Annots dictionary of a Page
[PDFBOX-5554] - Support charset parameter in TextToPDF
[PDFBOX-5560] - Add a method to get the components of a composite glyph
[PDFBOX-5564] - PDResource font cache improvement
[PDFBOX-5565] - RFE: Comb flag warning
[PDFBOX-5573] - fix unnecessary boxing/unboxing
[PDFBOX-5575] - optimize LZWFilter
[PDFBOX-5581] - renderer.setSubsamplingAllowed(true) causing the picture to blur

Task

[PDFBOX-5535] - Remove Travis build

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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