Author: lehmi Date: Wed Jul 8 04:31:10 2026 New Revision: 1935993 Log: prepare for 3.0.8 release
Modified: pdfbox/branches/3.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Modified: pdfbox/branches/3.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt ============================================================================== --- pdfbox/branches/3.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Wed Jul 8 04:20:07 2026 (r1935992) +++ pdfbox/branches/3.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Wed Jul 8 04:31:10 2026 (r1935993) @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 3.0.7 +Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 3.0.8 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 3.0.6 release. It contains +This is an incremental bugfix release based on the earlier 3.0.7 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 @@ -18,81 +18,48 @@ PDFBox issue tracker at https://issues.a Bug -[PDFBOX-2378] - XMPBox removes namespaces on serialization -[PDFBOX-3882] - False negative on PDFA-1b validation : missing field type -[PDFBOX-5049] - PlainText.Paragraph.getLines extremely slow on long lines -[PDFBOX-5288] - Valid PDF/A 1B is rejected -[PDFBOX-5369] - PDDocument.saveIncremental () and stack exhaustion -[PDFBOX-6036] - StackOverflowError in COSWriterCompressionPool for large number of bookmarks -[PDFBOX-6085] - TTFSubsetter.buildGlyfTable() modifies glyphIds while iterating over its entries possibly causing ConcurrentModificationException to be thrown -[PDFBOX-6086] - IndexOutOfBoundsException in Type1CharStringParser.processCallSubr() -[PDFBOX-6088] - Exception "No type defined for {http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/}rev"; when trying to determine version of PDF/A-4 document -[PDFBOX-6090] - allow new PDF/A-4 conformance levels -[PDFBOX-6091] - pdfbox-app-X.X.X-sources.jar on maven central are empty (and javadoc jar is missing) -[PDFBOX-6092] - Cmd line docs -[PDFBOX-6095] - IllegalArgumentException: Multiplying two matrices produces illegal values in PDFStreamEngine.processAnnotation() -[PDFBOX-6097] - Avoid StackOverflow when collecting indirect object keys -[PDFBOX-6099] - XmpParsingException: Schema is not set in this document : http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent# -[PDFBOX-6101] - NullPointerException in FontMapperImpl.getFontMatches() -[PDFBOX-6102] - StackOverflowError when Copying 1000+ bookmarks -[PDFBOX-6104] - border style in FDFAnnotation is not initialized if width is 0 -[PDFBOX-6105] - German umlauts are not rendered -[PDFBOX-6106] - Invalid type in Schema not detected when in XML attributes -[PDFBOX-6107] - Serializing produces date "1-01-01T00:00:00+01:00" -[PDFBOX-6109] - Seconds of date "D:2015-02-03T10:11:12" returned as 0 -[PDFBOX-6110] - Confusing naming of "DerivedFrom" property getter in XMPMediaManagementSchema -[PDFBOX-6111] - ClassCastException in XMPMediaManagementSchema.getHistory() -[PDFBOX-6115] - IllegalArgumentException: Input buffer too short in StandardSecurityHandler.computeRC4key() -[PDFBOX-6117] - Print shows wrong name -[PDFBOX-6118] - IllegalArgumentException: Width (0) and height (0) cannot be <= 0 when printing landscape rotated with RASTERIZE_DPI_AUTO -[PDFBOX-6119] - DateConverter fails on valid date -[PDFBOX-6121] - ClassCastException: class org.apache.xmpbox.type.TextType cannot be cast to class org.apache.xmpbox.type.ArrayProperty in DublinCoreSchema.getCreatorsProperty() -[PDFBOX-6122] - tiff:YCbCrSubSampling and tiff:YCbCrPositioning have wrong cardinality -[PDFBOX-6125] - ClassCastException: class org.apache.xmpbox.type.FlashType -[PDFBOX-6126] - Cannot find a definition for the namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#, property: rdf:Description -[PDFBOX-6127] - Non standard namespaces not recognized if in rdf:RDF -[PDFBOX-6128] - XmpParsingException: Schema is not set in this document : http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#, property: stEvt:action -[PDFBOX-6129] - XmpParsingException: Missing pdfaSchema:property in type definition in lenient mode -[PDFBOX-6131] - XmpParsingException: Unknown property value type : Open Choice of Integer -[PDFBOX-6133] - XmpParsingException: Property 'CountryCode' not defined in http://www.epo.org/patent-bibliographic-data/1.0/ -[PDFBOX-6134] - date "0-00-00T00:00:00-04:00" read as "0002-11-30T00:00:00-40:00" -[PDFBOX-6135] - XmpParsingException: Type 'stRef:documentName' not defined in http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef# in lenient mode -[PDFBOX-6136] - Invalid PDF/A namespace definition, prefix: xmlns, namespace: http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/ -[PDFBOX-6138] - XmpParsingException: Schema is not set in this document : http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/, property: pdfaExtension:schemas -[PDFBOX-6141] - NegativeArraySizeException in PredictorOutputStream() -[PDFBOX-6142] - New release will produce incorrect files. -[PDFBOX-6143] - NullpointerException in PDAcroForm.getField(Line 485) -[PDFBOX-6144] - "render" command line utility ignores "page" parameter -[PDFBOX-6146] - OutOfMemoryError when trying to extract text from pdf -[PDFBOX-6153] - Catch cycles in outlines -[PDFBOX-6165] - Rendered text missing -[PDFBOX-6171] - Inverted images due to enlarged decode array -[PDFBOX-6172] - PDF displays garbled characters in Adobe Reader but renders correctly in web browsers +[PDFBOX-4076] - PDFBox cannot properly handle PDF Name objects containing bytes with values outside the US_ASCII range +[PDFBOX-6150] - PDComboBox constructAppearances wrong text +[PDFBOX-6173] - NullPointerException while merging PDFs with output intents +[PDFBOX-6176] - reported number of objects (7412) is not one plus the highest object number (7410) +[PDFBOX-6178] - PdfBox renames RadioButton with Umlaut +[PDFBOX-6179] - Removing fields not possible +[PDFBOX-6186] - IllegalArgumentException when calling PDDocumentCatalog.setThreads(null) +[PDFBOX-6187] - NullPointerException in AppearanceGeneratorHelper when PDFont.getName() returns null +[PDFBOX-6189] - Usage of PDF Controlled dimension may cause OOM +[PDFBOX-6191] - Print border doesn't work if using rastering +[PDFBOX-6193] - TrueTypeEmbedder.getTag() throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException for negative Map.hashCode() +[PDFBOX-6194] - COSStream becomes COSDictionary after save — shared XObject reference replaced by Font +[PDFBOX-6202] - Possible regression when combining multiple PDFs +[PDFBOX-6203] - Splitter.split() corrupts result PDFs +[PDFBOX-6204] - PDType1FontEmbedder sets /Length to uncompressed PFB size +[PDFBOX-6206] - Rendering fails when bad annotations array +[PDFBOX-6209] - Regression in v3.0.7 causes Splitter to extract pages with text converted to symbols +[PDFBOX-6210] - Incorrect CJK Character Extraction for Shared Glyphs +[PDFBOX-6214] - PDDocument static AWT warm-up fails hard when AWT native libs are unavailable (GraalVM native-image) +[PDFBOX-6216] - Reject OpenType fonts using CFF2 outlines New Feature -[PDFBOX-6103] - Add DFLT script support in GSUB system for OpenType fonts +[PDFBOX-6198] - Disable deployment of submodule pdfbox-examples Improvement -[PDFBOX-5292] - Valid XMP Extension Schema rejected -[PDFBOX-6083] - optimize DataInputRandomAccessRead -[PDFBOX-6084] - Remove dead code from PDFMarkedContentExtractor -[PDFBOX-6096] - Include test file in test class -[PDFBOX-6100] - Reduce access rights to temp files -[PDFBOX-6108] - Get and Add PageTextSchema -[PDFBOX-6112] - Expand test coverage of PhotoShopSchema -[PDFBOX-6113] - Remove / deprecate TypeMapping.getAssociatedSchemaObject() -[PDFBOX-6114] - Improve PDF/A extension schema validation with missing fields names -[PDFBOX-6123] - Support Seq / Bag mixup in lenient mode -[PDFBOX-6130] - Parse xmp files in lenient mode that have no processing instructions -[PDFBOX-6164] - Support TIFF-files with FillOrder=2 conversion to PDF +[PDFBOX-6166] - Improve some implementation flaws in NonSeekableRandomAccessReadInputStream +[PDFBOX-6180] - Improve directory boundary check in ExtractEmbeddedFiles example +[PDFBOX-6181] - Create SecureRandom object only once +[PDFBOX-6185] - Fix handling of files in temp directory +[PDFBOX-6207] - Setting checkbox value fails when field has an invalid /Opt entry +[PDFBOX-6208] - Create support files for AI tooling +[PDFBOX-6211] - Add test for PDFBOX-6172 + +Wish + +[PDFBOX-6192] - PDIndexed() no-arg constructor, setBaseColorSpace(), and setHighValue() all deprecated in 3.x with no usable replacement for incremental construction Task -[PDFBOX-6089] - Remove / deprecate unused parts of PDIndexed -[PDFBOX-6139] - modernize rat exclusions -[PDFBOX-6140] - Run regression tests for 3.0.7 +[PDFBOX-6213] - Run regression tests for 3.0.8 Release Contents ----------------
