The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache PDFBox version 2.0.6. The release is available for download at:

http://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi

See the full release notes below for details about this release.

Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.6

Introduction
------------

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 2.0.5 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-3313] - Java 9 InaccessibleObjectException
[PDFBOX-3318] - IllegalArgumentException in PDPageTree constructor: root cannot be null
[PDFBOX-3347] - COSName parsing doesn't handle ISO-8859-1 encoded bytes
[PDFBOX-3519] - COSName is not ascii
[PDFBOX-3545] - COSParser.parseXref failing if startXrefOffset over pdf size
[PDFBOX-3687] - PDFBox doesn't respect different setting of /DA at PDAnnotationWidget level to /DA at PDField level
[PDFBOX-3717] - java.io.IOException: Missing root object specification in 
trailer
[PDFBOX-3723] - FDFField.getValue() doesn't return the values in line with the Javadoc.
[PDFBOX-3724] - Wrong size in rendering of some artifacts
[PDFBOX-3726] - NPE when setting the field value in an AcroForm and the NormalAppearance entry exists but is COSNull
[PDFBOX-3727] - "premature EOF, image will be incomplete"
[PDFBOX-3728] - org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary cannot be cast to org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSStream [PDFBOX-3731] - IOException: Found Token[kind=NAME, text=bind] but expected ND at offset 91 [PDFBOX-3732] - IllegalArgumentException when refreshing an appearance and no font resources are defined
[PDFBOX-3733] - image added to pdf by tool AddImageToPDF is turn-overed
[PDFBOX-3738] - Signature not visible on Acrobat
[PDFBOX-3739] - ImageWriterIterator.next() and ImageReaderIterator.next() can return null
[PDFBOX-3740] - Standard 14 and Encoding
[PDFBOX-3741] - usage of default colorspace not checked by preflight
[PDFBOX-3742] - Unknown dir object c='>' cInt=62 peek='>' peekInt=62
[PDFBOX-3743] - Running GC between signing and saving document closes stream
[PDFBOX-3745] - Wrong character width
[PDFBOX-3747] - CmapSubtable#getCharCodes provides values in random order
[PDFBOX-3748] - java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Kerning table version 0 format 2 not yet supported.
[PDFBOX-3750] - java.util.zip.DataFormatException when parsing a PDF
[PDFBOX-3751] - Flattening a pdf with refreshAppearances set to true causes a NullPointerException [PDFBOX-3752] - PDVariableText text color changes to be the same as the background color after flattening [PDFBOX-3753] - setting a RadioButton with export values does not update the appearance
[PDFBOX-3754] - Skip << >> in type1 font parser
[PDFBOX-3755] - ClassCastException in PDColor constructor: org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSNull cannot be cast to org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSNumber [PDFBOX-3757] - TTFSubsetter scrambles PostScript names and unicode codepoints when subset contains diaeresis
[PDFBOX-3761] - Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
[PDFBOX-3769] - Cannot read JBIG2 image when JBIG2-Image-Decoder is in path
[PDFBOX-3775] - Merge documents fails due to IllegalArgumentException
[PDFBOX-3781] - Existing AcroForm default resources is overwritten by signing 
code
[PDFBOX-3783] - java.io.IOException: Expected root dictionary, but got this: COSNull{}
[PDFBOX-3784] - Inline image incorrectly parsed
[PDFBOX-3788] - java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Catalog cannot be found
[PDFBOX-3789] - Some text missing in rendering
[PDFBOX-3791] - Long rendering time

Improvement

[PDFBOX-2684] - Javadoc for COSBase.setNeedToBeUpdate
[PDFBOX-2963] - Remove Bouncy Castle Provider Reference
[PDFBOX-3614] - Directly use the BouncyCastleProvider rather than installing it
[PDFBOX-3716] - Read images from byte array
[PDFBOX-3722] - make font cache error message less scary
[PDFBOX-3730] - Encapsulate outputStream into BufferedOutputStream in PDDocument.save()
[PDFBOX-3763] - Optimize SampledImageReader.getStencilImage()
[PDFBOX-3768] - Optimize SampledImageReader.from1Bit()
[PDFBOX-3770] - provide set of page indexes that have page label ranges
[PDFBOX-3772] - Add COSBoolean(false) as option in PDDocumentCatalog's 
getOpenAction
[PDFBOX-3779] - Add dpi and border parameter to PrintPDF command line utility

Task

[PDFBOX-3778] - Create sample code for creating a PDF with type 4 shading

Sub-task

[PDFBOX-3302] - Explicit support for certification signatures


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 SHA1 and MD5 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://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/KEYS.

About Apache PDFBox
-------------------

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/

About The Apache Software Foundation
------------------------------------

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