Release Notes 2020.12

Release date: 23rd December 2020

Next release: 29th January 2021

Key features at a glance

• General bug fixes
• We now write to heic

Enhancements

• [CORE-3367] - Tidy up and simplify usage of JPXDecode
• [CORE-3697] - Remove custom JPeg code
• [CORE-3703] - Fully implement DecodeArray on Mask images
• [JDEL-381] - Make HeicEncoder live
  we encode with 100% lossless compression, smaller file size compared to PNG. Images are ceiled to 8 for example 5x5 image will be 8x8 (this will be fixed in next release)
• [JDEL-417] - Update IFD Classes
  Better handling of tiff DPI
• [JPED-658] - Write PDF to HEIC
• [CORE-3699] - Update Image and Text extraction to allow password to be used in static methods
• [CORE-3700] - Update Image conversion to allow password use

Fixes

• [CORE-3705] - Page content missing due to null unicode value
  Fixed
• [CORE-3706] - Page turning issues
  caching issue fixed and page turning issue on
• [JPED-657] - Allow incorrect password on a PDF to throw an exception
  Fixed
• [JPED-659] - PDF to Image feature in Viewer does not work on all image formats (ie Heic)
  Fixed

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