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2021.02 Release Notes

Release date: 23rd February 2021

Next release: 6th April 2021

Enhancements:

[HTML-3459] - Update non-form conversion exception
Previously when a non-form conversion was attempted an unchecked RuntimeException was thrown. This has been changed to a checked PdfException.

[HTML-3460] - New Flag to not use images for checkboxes or radio buttons
Added, see the details for this flag on the Options page

[CORE-3713] - Improve Type 1 Font memory usage
Improves memory usage

[CORE-3716] - Improve string performance with .intern()
Improves performance/memory usage

[CORE-3718] - Improve Type 1 Font reading to reduce memory allocation
Improves performance

[CORE-3719] - Improve resizing data structure behaviour for FastByteArrayOutputStream
Improves performance

[CORE-3720] - Optimise use of FastByteArrayOutputStream
Improves memory usage

[CORE-3732] - Optimise reading of Unicode values for certain files
Improves performance

[JDEL-460] - Improve performance for internal image decoder
Improves performance

[JDEL-455] - Speed up PNG encoder with caching
Improves performance

Fixes:

[HTML-3443] - Missing space character in font results in an unreadable document
Fixed

[CORE-3704] - BMC/EMC clip incorrectly applied in customer PDF
Fixed

[CORE-3707] - Fix form order based on form size
Fixed

[CORE-3721] - W2 values not correctly read in customer PDF
Fixed

[CORE-3729] - Handle temp files race condition
A race condition could delete temp files younger than the 4-hour default if other processes are modifying the temp directory when getting the file list.

[CORE-3734] - Allow for comment at start of byte array
Fixed

[CORE-3735] - Excessive clips causing long duration on file
Fixed

[CORE-3738] - Only delete temp files created by BuildVu
Fixed