Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 3.0.1

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 3.0.0 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.

Sub-task

[PDFBOX-5663] - Implement "about" dialog

Bug

[PDFBOX-5350] - Regression unicode mapping in Korean document
[PDFBOX-5649] - NPE in DomXmpParser.parseLiDescription
[PDFBOX-5654] - Avoid NPE when processing CFF2 based fonts
[PDFBOX-5658] - IllegalArgumentException: Dimensions (width=458477041 height=26) are too large
[PDFBOX-5662] - Can not see checkbox check
[PDFBOX-5665] - NPE when converting pdf to image.
[PDFBOX-5666] - error encountered in splitting pdf using ver 3.0.0
[PDFBOX-5668] - NullPointerException in XMPMetadata.getSchema()
[PDFBOX-5672] - PDFToImage might not correctly detect unsupported image formats
[PDFBOX-5673] - Refactor Stream operations and operations on collections
[PDFBOX-5681] - ConcurrentModificationException in getObjectsByType() in 3.x
[PDFBOX-5682] - Long/permanent hang in PDFBox 3.x
[PDFBOX-5684] - Font cache isn't effective on my machine, always rebuilds
[PDFBOX-5687] - PDFBox 3.0 OSGi bundle requires sun.java2d.cmm.kcms package
[PDFBOX-5689] - Many new warnings "newGlyph ... newValue: ... is trying to override the oldValue" after upgrade to V3.0.0
[PDFBOX-5694] - PDF to Image conversion results in different converted image
[PDFBOX-5696] - COSStream lost, becomes a COSDictionary
[PDFBOX-5702] - Text in a certain font is lost when converting pdf to image
[PDFBOX-5706] - Incorrect colors in image from PDFs (DCTDecode)
[PDFBOX-5707] - Avoid NPE when accessing the elements of a COSArray
[PDFBOX-5712] - Stackoverflow in split
[PDFBOX-5713] - PfbParser fails to parse PFB font with multiple binary records.
[PDFBOX-5718] - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Provided dictionary is not of type 'COSName{OCG}'

New Feature

[PDFBOX-5670] - Allow repeatable subcommands in the command line tools
[PDFBOX-5683] - Inconsistent/incomplete PDF rendering

Improvement

[PDFBOX-4892] - Improve code quality (4)
[PDFBOX-5664] - 3.0.0: PDFCloneUtility needs a protected constructor to be useable outside of PDFBox when using Java 9 JPMS
[PDFBOX-5685] - Reduce number of copies to lower memory footprint
[PDFBOX-5693] - Consolidate bouncycastle configuration
[PDFBOX-5699] - Consistent scm.url values for pom.xml
[PDFBOX-5703] - use comparison operators for enums
[PDFBOX-5705] - update log4j dependency to 2.21.0
[PDFBOX-5711] - Loader: add support for java.nio.file.Path

Test

[PDFBOX-5667] - Can't create test for ExtractText command line tool

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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