Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.37

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 2.0.36 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.


Release Contents
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Bug

[PDFBOX-4076] - PDFBox cannot properly handle PDF Name objects containing bytes with values outside the US_ASCII range
[PDFBOX-6150] - PDComboBox constructAppearances wrong text
[PDFBOX-6178] - PdfBox renames RadioButton with Umlaut
[PDFBOX-6179] - Removing fields not possible
[PDFBOX-6187] - NullPointerException in AppearanceGeneratorHelper when PDFont.getName() returns null
[PDFBOX-6189] - Usage of PDF Controlled dimension may cause OOM
[PDFBOX-6191] - Print border doesn't work if using rastering
[PDFBOX-6193] - TrueTypeEmbedder.getTag() throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException for negative Map.hashCode()
[PDFBOX-6204] - PDType1FontEmbedder sets /Length to uncompressed PFB size
[PDFBOX-6206] - Rendering fails when bad annotations array
[PDFBOX-6210] - Incorrect CJK Character Extraction for Shared Glyphs
[PDFBOX-6214] - PDDocument static AWT warm-up fails hard when AWT native libs are unavailable (GraalVM native-image)

New Feature

[PDFBOX-6198] - Disable deployment of submodule pdfbox-examples

Improvement

[PDFBOX-6180] - Improve directory boundary check in ExtractEmbeddedFiles example
[PDFBOX-6181] - Create SecureRandom object only once
[PDFBOX-6207] - Setting checkbox value fails when field has an invalid /Opt entry
[PDFBOX-6208] - Create support files for AI tooling
[PDFBOX-6211] - Add test for PDFBOX-6172

Task

[PDFBOX-6217] - Run regression tests for 2.0.37

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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