Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 3.0.8

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 3.0.7 release. It contains
a couple of fixes and small improvements.

A migration guide is available at https://pdfbox.apache.org/3.0/migration.html. It is
still a work in progress and we are happy to include any valuable feedback from our 
community. 

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-4076] - PDFBox cannot properly handle PDF Name objects containing bytes with values outside the US_ASCII range
[PDFBOX-6150] - PDComboBox constructAppearances wrong text
[PDFBOX-6173] - NullPointerException while merging PDFs with output intents
[PDFBOX-6176] - reported number of objects (7412) is not one plus the highest object number (7410)
[PDFBOX-6178] - PdfBox renames RadioButton with Umlaut
[PDFBOX-6179] - Removing fields not possible
[PDFBOX-6186] - IllegalArgumentException when calling PDDocumentCatalog.setThreads(null)
[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-6194] - COSStream becomes COSDictionary after save — shared XObject reference replaced by Font
[PDFBOX-6202] - Possible regression when combining multiple PDFs
[PDFBOX-6203] - Splitter.split() corrupts result PDFs
[PDFBOX-6204] - PDType1FontEmbedder sets /Length to uncompressed PFB size
[PDFBOX-6206] - Rendering fails when bad annotations array
[PDFBOX-6209] - Regression in v3.0.7 causes Splitter to extract pages with text converted to symbols
[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)
[PDFBOX-6216] - Reject OpenType fonts using CFF2 outlines

New Feature

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

Improvement

[PDFBOX-6166] - Improve some implementation flaws in NonSeekableRandomAccessReadInputStream
[PDFBOX-6180] - Improve directory boundary check in ExtractEmbeddedFiles example
[PDFBOX-6181] - Create SecureRandom object only once
[PDFBOX-6185] - Fix handling of files in temp directory
[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

Wish

[PDFBOX-6192] - PDIndexed() no-arg constructor, setBaseColorSpace(), and setHighValue() all deprecated in 3.x with no usable replacement for incremental construction

Task

[PDFBOX-6213] - Run regression tests for 3.0.8

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 checksums 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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