Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 3.0.2

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 3.0.1 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.

Bug

[PDFBOX-2725] - [PATCH] Split pdf lose accessibility tags
[PDFBOX-5375] - Allow creating of PDFXObjectImage without accessing to the image stream
[PDFBOX-5704] - char not rendered
[PDFBOX-5714] - PDFBox 3.0 regression: duplicate references in dictionary values
[PDFBOX-5715] - Lines vanish when printing on MacOS
[PDFBOX-5717] - NullPointerException calling saveIncrementalForExternalSigning
[PDFBOX-5721] - The embedded font DroidSansFallbackFull reports an error when parsing, and finally uses lastResortFont, resulting in garbled fonts.
[PDFBOX-5722] - Wrong scope for maven dependencies
[PDFBOX-5723] - COSName caches already cached hashCode
[PDFBOX-5724] - CharStringCommand.equals() does not conform to the contract of Object.equals
[PDFBOX-5727] - Font operation takes a long time with 3.0.1
[PDFBOX-5728] - NullPointerException in TTFSubsetter.buildPostTable()
[PDFBOX-5730] - The expected SubstFormat for ExtensionSubstFormat1 subtable is 108 but should be 1
[PDFBOX-5732] - Problem converting PDF to image (java.awt.color.CMMException: Can not access specified profile)
[PDFBOX-5733] - lookupType is to be replaced by extensionLookupType in type 7 lookup table
[PDFBOX-5735] - Set the default value for PDNonTerminalField
[PDFBOX-5737] - java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException Bug Report
[PDFBOX-5738] - Wrong colors in PDF since PDFBOX-5488
[PDFBOX-5742] - Split result PDFs broken
[PDFBOX-5744] - EOFException while readMultipleSubstitutionSubtable()
[PDFBOX-5745] - EOFException while readSingleLookupSubTable()
[PDFBOX-5748] - Cannot get overlayPDF working on command line interface
[PDFBOX-5751] - Convert to image exception
[PDFBOX-5752] - Font errors after copying a page to another document
[PDFBOX-5754] - PDF conversion in this format is very slow. Is there any room for optimization?
[PDFBOX-5757] - streamCacheCreateFunction not passed to PDFParser
[PDFBOX-5758] - ExceptionInInitializerError when unmapping is not supported
[PDFBOX-5760] - NPE in FIlter.decode() when called with empty list
[PDFBOX-5763] - IllegalArgumentException: -Infinity is not a finite number
[PDFBOX-5764] - Wrong chunksize when using a ByteBuffer to initialize a RandomAccessReadBuffer
[PDFBOX-5772] - Inconsistent signature page handling when signing in existing signature fields
[PDFBOX-5773] - Add leading "0" for octal values in MacOSRomanEncoding
[PDFBOX-5775] - importPage destroys annotations
[PDFBOX-5776] - DataFormatException: invalid distance too far back
[PDFBOX-5778] - Grayscale JPEG rendered multicolor
[PDFBOX-5781] - OutOfMemoryError in FileSystemFontsProvider.scanFonts
[PDFBOX-5782] - NPE in PageDrawer.getPaint()

New Feature

[PDFBOX-5768] - Enable Native Markdown Extraction in Apache PDFBox

Improvement

[PDFBOX-5729] - GsubWorkerForDevanagari and GsubWorkerForGujarati created
[PDFBOX-5762] - When splitting, keep page destinations that are part of target document(s)
[PDFBOX-5783] - Replace Exception with some repair attempt

Task

[PDFBOX-5739] - Add test for PDFBOX-3347
[PDFBOX-5741] - Add test for PDFBOX-4106

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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