Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 1.8.16

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 1.8.15 release. It 
contains a couple of fixes and small improvements.

For more details on all fixes 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-4261] - Invalidated signature signing pdf twice
[PDFBOX-4276] - Multiply blend mode not detected
[PDFBOX-4283] - Allowing Rectangles with additional elements
[PDFBOX-4298] - NullPointerException when doing overlay
[PDFBOX-4316] - RemoveAllText does not delete all parameters with " operator

Improvement

[PDFBOX-4274] - Get rid of warning about prerequisites

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 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
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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 http://pdfbox.apache.org/

About The Apache Software Foundation
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