Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.27

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 2.0.26 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-4925] - Invalid stream Length validation in StreamValidationProcess
[PDFBOX-5389] - To set compressed on buffered image while creating a PDF
[PDFBOX-5403] - Blurry / distorted rendering
[PDFBOX-5424] - java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException (2)
[PDFBOX-5427] - PDFDebugger does not remove listeners for PagePane when opening new File
[PDFBOX-5428] - PDFRenderer.renderImageWithDPI thows EOFException in PDF
[PDFBOX-5429] - PDFCloneUtility.checkForRecursion breaks support for some existing PDFs
[PDFBOX-5430] - PDFStreamEngine.showTextStrings with font switch
[PDFBOX-5453] - ClassCastException (PDColor.java:66)
[PDFBOX-5459] - NullPointerException in PDFunctionType3.eval()
[PDFBOX-5460] - Deadlock in TrueTypeFont and RAFDataStream
[PDFBOX-5463] - illegalArgumentException for rendering PDF (image extraction)
[PDFBOX-5465] - NullPointerException in CmapSubtable.getCharCode
[PDFBOX-5470] - PDActionEmbeddedGoTo does not accept a Destination with a page number or string
[PDFBOX-5471] - NPE when Transparency Group is missing the BBox
[PDFBOX-5484] - PDFRenderer does not render letters when converting page to image
[PDFBOX-5488] - JPEG image rendered with wrong colors when using TwelveMonkeys
[PDFBOX-5499] - Performance issue since 2.0.18
[PDFBOX-5500] - NullPointerException in PDType0Font.readCode() if cMap is null
[PDFBOX-5504] - NullPointerException in CFFParser.parseFont()
[PDFBOX-5505] - IndexOutOfBoundsException in PDCIDFont.readWidths()
[PDFBOX-5506] - IndexOutOfBoundsException in Type1Parser.java
[PDFBOX-5507] - ClassCastException in CMapParser.parseBeginbfchar
[PDFBOX-5508] - ClassCastException in PDXObject.createXObject()
[PDFBOX-5509] - ClassCastException in PDAcroForm.getFields()
[PDFBOX-5510] - ClassCastException in PDDocumentCatalog.getAcroForm()
[PDFBOX-5511] - ClassCastException in PDResources.getIndirect()
[PDFBOX-5513] - getPageLayout throws IllegalArgumentException for empty mode
[PDFBOX-5514] - Font not found because of case issues

Improvement

[PDFBOX-5448] - Clarify access permission for high / low print quality
[PDFBOX-5450] - Create Opaque PDFRenderer example
[PDFBOX-5494] - "invalid object number value" is too scary

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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