[ANNOUNCE] Apache PDFBox 2.0.13 released

[Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de>]

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache PDFBox version 2.0.13. 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 2.0.13

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 2.0.12 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-3646] - Annotations parsed from XFDF containing ampersand characters are 
not properly imported
[PDFBOX-4163] - Java 11 compile error
[PDFBOX-4326] - PDF with JPEG2000 image can't be rendered
[PDFBOX-4327] - NullPointerException in PDFStreamEngine.processSoftMask() when 
running ExtractImages
[PDFBOX-4330] - NumberFormatException in CFFParser.readRealNumber()
[PDFBOX-4331] - Make jdk9 profile activation automatic
[PDFBOX-4333] - ClassCastException when loading PDF
[PDFBOX-4336] - "CMap is invalid" exception thrown
[PDFBOX-4338] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in COSParser
[PDFBOX-4339] - NullPointerException in COSParser
[PDFBOX-4343] - Prevent calling addSignature twice
[PDFBOX-4345] - FDFAnnotation.richContentsToString does not evaluate text nodes 
which have siblings in the XML
[PDFBOX-4347] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in PDFXrefStreamParser
[PDFBOX-4348] - ClassCastException in COSParser
[PDFBOX-4349] - ClassCastException in COSParser
[PDFBOX-4350] - IllegalArgumentException in PDFObjectStreamParser
[PDFBOX-4351] - IndexOutOfBoundsException when reading from InputStreamSource
[PDFBOX-4352] - NullPointerException in COSParser
[PDFBOX-4353] - NullPointerException in PDFXrefStreamParser
[PDFBOX-4354] - NumberFormatException in COSParser
[PDFBOX-4355] - PDFTextStripperByArea dies on Chinese/Japanese files
[PDFBOX-4357] - IllegalArgumentException "root cannot be null"
[PDFBOX-4359] - Bad sizing of signature field inside rotated page
[PDFBOX-4360] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in ASCIIHexFilter
[PDFBOX-4361] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in COSParser
[PDFBOX-4364] - example AddValidationInformation fails with scratchfile error
[PDFBOX-4365] - PDFDebugger: JComboBox does not take generic parameters in Java 1.6
[PDFBOX-4366] - NullPointerException in PDButton.updateByValue() when appearance 
missing
[PDFBOX-4367] - Error expected floating point number actual='18-5'
[PDFBOX-4369] - unsupported ExtractText -force option still appears in online 
2.0 docs
[PDFBOX-4372] - Stack overflow around PDFStreamEngine.processStream
[PDFBOX-4374] - Switch from log4j to slf4j
[PDFBOX-4377] - Verify CRL in AddValidation example
[PDFBOX-4381] - Revocation CRL check should be done at signing time in 
AddValidation example
[PDFBOX-4383] - PDFMergerUtility seems to leave source file open
[PDFBOX-4384] - PDF/A Document Validation out of memory

Improvement

[PDFBOX-4335] - Overlay should implement Closeable
[PDFBOX-4363] - [Patch] Add a common interface PDShadingPaint for all shading paints
[PDFBOX-4371] - Improve ExtractText utility so that it can extract rotated text 
automatically
[PDFBOX-4375] - Change visibility of Overlay#loadPDF to protected

Test

[PDFBOX-4373] - Add additional unit tests

Task

[PDFBOX-4358] - Prevent stack overflow in COSDictionary.toString()
[PDFBOX-4362] - Create simple text extraction example


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 a SHA512 checksum 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
-------------------

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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of its 2,500+ contributors.

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