Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.20

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 2.0.19 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-756] - Some characters from TeX-created files are mapped into ASCII range 1-31
[PDFBOX-4516] - PDFBox text and images are blurry even after rendering with high DPI
[PDFBOX-4783] - empty annotation appearance BBox brings "Multiplying two matrices produces illegal values"
[PDFBOX-4788] - Flattening fields results in non-widget annotations being removed
[PDFBOX-4793] - Questionable fallback font for some embedded chinese fonts
[PDFBOX-4794] - NPE in ExtractImages.ImageGraphicsEngine().run() (2)
[PDFBOX-4799] - isartor-6-2-2-t02-fail-a.pdf fails on jdk15 with ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
[PDFBOX-4800] - Parsing of numbers does not always terminate at actual end of number
[PDFBOX-4801] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in PDICCBased.toRGB()
[PDFBOX-4805] - Regression in 2.0.19
[PDFBOX-4807] - COSString cannot be cast to COSDictionary
[PDFBOX-4811] - Glyphs getting lost when rendering
[PDFBOX-4814] - Wrong COSType for OCProperties after merge
[PDFBOX-4817] - Generated XMP Metadata with other XSLT processor are XML invalid
[PDFBOX-4819] - Optional Content Membership Dictionaries (OCMD) incorrect
[PDFBOX-4821] - My PDF document is not printed correctly. Rendering it works.
[PDFBOX-4822] - Off-by-one error in PDSignature.getConvertedContents()
[PDFBOX-4824] - NullpointerException with PDFDebugger
[PDFBOX-4825] - PDPushButton.getOnValues() throws IllegalStateException
[PDFBOX-4828] - Encode a text using the vertical type of the font in the attachment, which succeeded in version 2.0.12 but failed in version 2.0.19
[PDFBOX-4833] - PDColorSpace#create IOException, expected a name or array but got COSDictionary
[PDFBOX-4849] - FlateFilter Inflater leaks
[PDFBOX-4851] - Image rendering issue 2

Improvement

[PDFBOX-4784] - Possibility to provide the SecureRandom to SecurityHandler
[PDFBOX-4804] - Remove no longer needed parameter from PDFStreamEngine#show*Glyph
[PDFBOX-4810] - Improve CodespaceRange to be in line with the spec
[PDFBOX-4844] - Pass resourceCache to patterns

Test

[PDFBOX-4854] - Add test that font can be deleted after usage

Task

[PDFBOX-4813] - Remove catching NullPointerException

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 http://pdfbox.apache.org/

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