Hi,AFAIU we have a lazy consensus (see [1]) about "1.0.0" as the version number of the next pdfbox release. Consequently I've removed the version 0.8.1 from JIRA and I've updated all issues which were linked to that version.
BR Andreas Lehmkühler [1] http://markmail.org/thread/rtyoh7nsa2sd4yfr
