2023.09 Release Notes

Release date: 27th September 2023

Next release: 8th November 2023

Note:

• The recent Google WebP vulnerabilities do not affect our library as our code is handwritten by us and does not use any external libraries.
• API change. PdfObject method getParameterConstant has been removed and should be replaced with getNameAsConstant, which should now fulfil the required functionality of getParameterConstant.

Key features at a glance

• General bug fixes
• Compatible with Java 21
• Addition of Tika image metadata extraction

New features and enhancements

• CORE-3953 Tested Java 21 compatibility
• JPED-848 Tika image metadata extraction from PDFs

Fixes

• CORE-3947 Case 9044: JBig2Bitmap wrong height and width
• CORE-3954 Allow for Boolean misdefined as a (string)
• CORE-3956 URI key incorrectly read as Dictionary in PageObject
• CORE-3961 Remove PdfObject getParameterConstant(int id)
• CORE-3964 Case 9412: Problem with the depiction of a pdf
• JPED-843 Solid borders are too thick
• JPED-846 Continuous facing pages misplaced in Viewer

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