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## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing with moderate activity Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (14 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 3.0.1 was released on 2023-11-30. 2.0.30 was released on 2023-11-04. 3.0.0 was released on 2023-08-17. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - we released the first minor release of our new 3.0.x line to fix some regression issues. A couple of improvements and further fixes were included as well. - the development of the current trunk version 4.0.0 is an ongoing effort, e.g. we switched to Log4j2 and did some major refactorings
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing with moderate activity Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (14 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 3.0.0 was released on 2023-08-17. 2.0.29 was released on 2023-07-01. 2.0.28 was released on 2023-04-13. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - finally the new major release 3.0.0 was released after 7 years of development - there aren't any serious issues issues with the new version after releasing it. We expect the first bugfix release 3.0.1 in a couple of weeks - the development of 4.0.0 already started with two fundamental changes. We switched to java 11 as minimum requirement and removed the sub project preflight due to inactivity
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing with moderate activity Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (14 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.0.29 was released on 2023-07-01. 2.0.28 was released on 2023-04-13. 2.0.27 was released on 2022-09-29. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - there are a lot of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes - 2.0.29 was released a few days ago - the new release consists of small improvements and bug fixes. Two of the latter fix two regressions introduced/revealed in the former 2.0.28 release - a vote for the first beta version of PDFBox 3.0.0 is ongoing
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (13 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.0.27 was released on 2022-09-29. 1.8.17 was released on 2022-09-15. 2.0.26 was released on 2022-04-21. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - there are a lot of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes - we are still planning to cut the first beta release of our next major version 3.0.0 - we've started a vote for the 2.0.28 release - the new release consists of bug fixes and small improvements. One of the more significant changes is the improved support for arabic pdfs - we received three reports through security@a.o. All of them are well known and didn't qualify for a CVE due to a low severity
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (13 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.0.27 was released on 2022-09-29. 1.8.17 was released on 2022-09-15. 2.0.26 was released on 2022-04-21. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - due to the holiday season the last quarter was a little bit quiter than usual - we are going to cut the first beta release of our next major version 3.0.0 this quarter - we are working on the 3.0 migration guide
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to a Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (13 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.0.27 was released on 2022-09-29. 1.8.17 was released on 2022-09-15. 2.0.26 was released on 2022-04-21. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - there are a lot of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes - we are still planning to cut the first beta release of our next major version 3.0.0 - to do so we start to identify the last tickets with breaking changes to be included in 3.0.0. - due to the releases last month the preparations for the beta release were slowed down a little - there was an article about maintaining interoperability in open source software". To do so the authors studied the activities within Apache PDFBox for two years without the knowledge of the community. We don't see any surprises, see https://s.apache.org/aljtz for further details
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (13 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 3.0.0-alpha3 was released on 2022-05-05. 2.0.26 was released on 2022-04-21. 3.0.4 JBIG2 was released on 2022-03-01. 2.0.25 was released on 2021-12-16. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - there are a lot of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes - we are planning to cut the first beta release of our next major version 3.0.0 - to do so we start to identify the last tickets with breaking changes to be included in 3.0.0
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (12 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 3.0.4 JBIG2 was released on 2022-03-01. 2.0.25 was released on 2021-12-16. 3.0.0-alpha2 was released on 2021-09-10. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - there are a lot of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes - the release process for 2.0.26 just started - we are planning to cut another alpha release of our next major version 3.0.0
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (12 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.0.25 was released on 2021-12-16. 3.0.0-alpha2 was released on 2021-09-10. 2.0.24 was released on 2021-06-10. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - there are a lot of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes - we are working on finalizing 3.0.0 and released another alpha version - PDFBox isn't affected by the log42j vulnerablility as we are using commons logging and don't ship any logging library - Maruan activated GitHub CodeQL scans for our codebase
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (12 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.0.24 was released on 2021-06-10. 3.0.0-RC1 was released on 2021-04-01. 2.0.23 was released on 2021-03-18. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - there are a lot of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes - we are working on finalizing 3.0.0 - we found a massive performance regression in 3.0.0 when working on the optimization of incremental save
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Some bugs were reported via security@apache.org and 2 of them ended up in a CVE. Both were solved in 2.0.24. - CVE-2021-31811: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading a tiny file - CVE-2021-31812: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file The credits goes to Chaoyuan Peng ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (12 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.0.24 was released on 2021-06-10. 3.0.0-RC1 was released on 2021-04-01 2.0.23 was released on 2021-03-18. 2.0.22 was released on 2020-12-19. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - there are a lot of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes - we are working on the second alpha version of the upcoming new major release 3.0.0 - we decided to retire the subproject Preflight with 4.0.0 as it is practically not maintained and the supported features are limited. VeraPDF is one good alternative. It has more to offer and is open source. And by the way it is based on a PDFBox fork.
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Some bugs were reported via security@apache.org and 2 of them ended up in a CVE. Both were solved in 2.0.23. - CVE-2021-27906 Apache PDFBox: a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file - CVE-2021-27807 Apache PDFBox: a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file The credits goes to Fabian Meumertzheim who found this issues when working on OSS-Fuzz ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (11 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. Our PMC members Maruan and Tilman became ASF members. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.0.23 was released on 2021-03-18. 2.0.22 was released on 2020-12-19. 2.0.21 was released on 2020-08-20. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists. Unfortunately these are mostly different people and very few regulars, so that it is that easy to find new committers - there are a lot of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes - the first alpha version of the upcoming new major release 3.0.0 was released - some of the downstream projects already started to integrate the new release into their codebases. The feedback is positive so far - we just learn that an instructor at Wright State University uses PDFBox in his class as starting point [1], [2] [1] https://s.apache.org/smf58 [2] https://s.apache.org/zbwv7
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (11 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.0.22 was released on 2020-12-19. 2.0.21 was released on 2020-08-20. 2.0.20 was released on 2020-05-07. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - there are a lot of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes - we started finalizing the next major release 3.0.0. We expect to prepare a first release candidate soon
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (11 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.0.21 was released on 2020-08-20. 2.0.20 was released on 2020-05-07. 2.0.19 was released on 2020-02-23. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - the improvement of the on demand parser in the trunk is an ongoing effort - there are a lot of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes (selected choice follows) -- support for compressed object streams contributed by Christian Appl (ongoing) -- performance enhancements contributed by Alfred Faltiska -- support for incremental updates -- improve test coverage an code quality
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (11 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.0.20 was released on 2020-05-07. 2.0.19 was released on 2020-02-23. 2.0.18 was released on 2019-12-23. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - the improvement of the on demand parser in the trunk is an ongoing effort - there are a lot of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes - our website build is converted to a fully automated maven build without the need to install any aditional software - Maruan, one of our pmcs, donated a virtual server which is now the home for Tikas bunch of test docs to be used for regressions tests in PDFBox, POI and Tika
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (10 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.0.19 was released on 2020-02-23. 2.0.18 was released on 2019-12-23. 3.0.3 JBIG2 was released on 2019-12-18. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - the improvement of the on demand parser in the trunk is an ongoing effort and a base version is available now. First results are promising with regard to performance and memory foodprint. There are some TODOs on our 3.0 list - there are as well a lot of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache PDFBox was founded 2009-10-21 (10 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - 2.0.18 was released on 2019-12-23. - 3.0.3 JBIG2 was released on 2019-12-18. - 2.0.17 was released on 2019-09-20. ## Community Health: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - due to Sallys post "Apache in 2019 - By The Digits" Tilman is again among the top 5 committers of the year although we are a small community compared to other ASF projects, see https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits - the improvement of the on demand parser in the trunk is an ongoing effort and a base version is nearly done - there are as well a lot of other refactorings and improvements - our sonar project was finally moved to the new location - we are using the jacoco-maven-plugin to visualize the test coverage of the trunk
## Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: This month is the 10th anniversary of Apache PDFBox. We graduated as TLP on 2009-10-21. There are currently 21 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthäus Mayer on 2017-10-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Joerg O. Henne on 2017-10-09. ## Project Activity: Software development activity: - the work on 2.0.18 already started with a handful of fixes - the minimum requirement for the trunk is now java 8 - the improvement of the on demand parser of the trunk is an ongoing effort, as well as some other refactorings and improvements - we are waiting for our sonar project to be moved to the new location Recent releases: - 2.0.17 was released on 2019-09-20 - 2.0.16 was released on 2019-06-27 - 2.0.15 was released on 2019-04-11 ## Community Health: There is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists.
## Description: - the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - in the last quarter the annotations appearance work from last year has been ported from the trunk to the 2.0 branch - the trunk now supports parse on demand (allows to open large files with minimal memory usage) - there is an external offer to implement linearized PDF files (faster loading of PDF files on the web) ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists ## PMC changes: - Currently 21 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Matthäus Mayer on Mon Oct 16 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 21 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Joerg O. Henne at Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Releases: - 2.0.16 was released on Thu June 27 2019
## Description: - the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - a vote for 2.0.15 started on April 8th a most likely the new bugfix version will be released on April 11th - in the last quarter there were a lot of small improvements with regard to text extraction, document merging, memory footprint and speed - Tilman managed to make PDFBox java 12 compatible ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists ## PMC changes: - Currently 21 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Matthäus Mayer on Mon Oct 16 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 21 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Joerg O. Henne at Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Releases: - 2.0.14 was released on Thu Feb 28 2019
## Description: - the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - more than 20 JIRA tickets were fixed since releasing 2.0.13 so that most likely 2.0.14 is about to be released soon - due to Sallys post "Apache in 2018 - By The Digits" Tilman is among the top 5 committers of 2018 although we are a small community compared to other ASF projects, see https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits - Maruan managed to move (with the help of infra) all of our repos from git-wip-us to gitbox to support infra with the decommission of git-wip-us ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists ## PMC changes: - Currently 21 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Matthäus Mayer on Mon Oct 16 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 21 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Joerg O. Henne at Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Releases: - 2.0.13 was released on Sun Dec 02 2018
## Description: - the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - we released 2 new PDFBox versions and one new JBIG2 version - 1.8.16 and 2.0.12 were released to fix CVE-2018-11797. It was reported through security@ - Tilman is working on making PDFBox compatible with java 11 - we are collaborating with Daniel Persson to explain a jdk related performance issue with some rendering cases ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists ## PMC changes: - Currently 21 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Matthäus Mayer on Mon Oct 16 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 21 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Joerg O. Henne at Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Releases: - 1.8.16 was released on Fri Oct 05 2018 - 2.0.12 was released on Fri Oct 05 2018 - 3.0.2 JBIG2 was released on Tue Sep 25 2018
## Description: - the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - we released 4 new PDFBox versions and one new JBIG2 version - 1.8.15 and 2.0.11 were released to fix CVE-2018-8036. It was reported through our friends from TIKA - we upgraded all artefact signatures from SHA1 to SHA512 and omitted MD5 signatures to follow the new requirements ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists ## PMC changes: - Currently 21 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Matthäus Mayer on Mon Oct 16 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 21 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Joerg O. Henne at Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Releases: - 1.8.14 was released on Fri Apr 20 2018 - 1.8.15 was released on Thu Jun 28 2018 - 2.0.10 was released on Thu Jun 21 2018 - 2.0.11 was released on Thu Jun 28 2018 - 3.0.1 JBIG2 was released on Thu May 17 2018
## Description: - the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - we released the first Apache based version of the JBig2 ImageIO plugin last month - we are working on fixing bugs and adding smaller improvements to 2.0.x - we have already resolved quite a number of 2.0.x releated tickets so that most likely the next bugfix version 2.0.10 will be released soon - we are planning to release a bugfix version of 1.8.x soon - we are improving our website ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - we are pleased to see that the amount of patches compared to other contributions is growing. So more and more people are not just using PDFBox but dig deeper into it ## PMC changes: - Currently 21 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Matthäus Mayer on Mon Oct 16 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 21 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Joerg O. Henne at Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Releases: - 2.0.9 was released on Fri Mar 23 2018 - 3.0.0 JBIG2 was released on Tue Feb 27 2018 ## JIRA activity: - 127 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 127 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
- the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF
documents.
## Issues:
- there are no issue requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- the integration of the JBig2 ImageIO plugin is complete
- we are planning to release the first Apache based version of the JBig2
ImageIO plugin this month
- we are working on fixing bugs in 2.0.x
- we have resolve quite a number of 2.0.x releated tickets so that most
likely the next bugfix version 2.0.9 will be released this month as well
## Board feedback (comment from the last october board meeting)
mt: Reading the "2.0.7 release" thread on private@ it appears that the
project is dependent on a single committer for at least a sub-set of
regression tests. Could you explain this in more detail please. If there are
tests the community depends on, I'd expect to see those tests in an ASF
repository where any committer can run them.
These tests are not classic regression tests but tests on a large amount (>
500000) of files. The results are compared to the results of a previous
version and then committers investigate files with some extreme negative
differences or with new exceptions. The same is done (on an even larger scale)
for Tika, see [1] and [2]. The Tika tests need 4TB, and the files can't be
hosted on a public ASF repo or released under the Apache License because the
files largely derive from Common Crawl or the internet generally, and
copyright/licensing would pose a problem. There is a special vm to host the
described test and it is possible to grant access to all interested
Tika/PDFBox committers. Tilman already got his access bits in december, so
that at least one other committer is able to run those tests if needed. Maybe
others will follow.
[1]
http://events.lin uxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/ApacheConMiami2017_tallison_v2.pdf
[2]
http://o penpreservation.org/blog/2016/10/04/apache-tikas-regression-corpus-tika-1302/
## Health report:
- there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the
mailing lists
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Joerg O. Henne was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 09 2017
- Sebastian Holder was added to the PMC on Wed Oct 11 2017
- Carolin Köhler was added to the PMC on Wed Oct 11 2017
- Matthäus Mayer was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 16 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- Joerg O. Henne was added as a committer on Mon Oct 09 2017
- Sebastian Holder was added as a committer on Wed Oct 11 2017
- Carolin Köhler was added as a committer on Wed Oct 11 2017
- Matthäus Mayer was added as a committer on Mon Oct 16 2017
## Releases:
- 2.0.8 was released on Thu Nov 02 2017
## JIRA activity:
- 101 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 75 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: - the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - we are working on fixing bugs in 2.0.x - there are some small improvements as well - we already started a vote for 2.0.8, but cancelled it due to a regression - Levigo donated their JBig2 ImageIO plugin to PDFBox and we are almost done with the integration ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists ## PMC changes: - Currently 21 PMC members. - New PMC members: - Joerg O. Henne was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 09 2017 - Sebastian Holder was added to the PMC on Wed Oct 11 2017 - Carolin Köhler was added to the PMC on Wed Oct 11 2017 - Matthäus Mayer was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 16 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 21 committers. - New commmitters: - Joerg O. Henne was added as a committer on Mon Oct 09 2017 - Sebastian Holder was added as a committer on Wed Oct 11 2017 - Carolin Köhler was added as a committer on Wed Oct 11 2017 - Matthäus Mayer was added as a committer on Moon Oct 16 2017 ## Releases: - 2.0.7 was released on Thu Jul 20 2017 ## JIRA activity: - 94 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 90 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: - the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - we are working on fixing bugs in 2.0.x - there are some small improvements as well - Levigo is thinking about relicensing their JBig2 ImageIO plugin [1], which is an optional dependency of PDFBox. Furthermore they think about donating the plugin to the PDFBox community. Jörg Henne from Levigo contacted us on dev@pdfbox and we showed our interest. Levigo has to do some more legal homework, but it looks like we'll get some new stuff soon. [1] https://github.com/levigo/jbig2-imageio ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists ## PMC changes: - Currently 17 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Tim Allison on Mon Sep 19 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 17 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Tim Allison at Mon Sep 19 2016 ## Releases: - 2.0.6 was released on Mon May 15 2017 ## JIRA activity: - 109 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 110 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: - the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - we are working on fixing bugs in 2.0.x - there are some small improvements as well - we decided to switch the current trunk from 2.1.0 to 3.0.0 as we are going to introduce some api changes which require a major release - Maruan started an effort to update our website - we support the new donation campaign and added the logo including a link ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists ## PMC changes: - Currently 17 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Tim Allison on Mon Sep 19 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 17 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Tim Allison at Mon Sep 19 2016 ## Releases: - 2.0.5 was released on Fri Mar 17 2017 ## JIRA activity: - 105 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 106 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: - the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time - we solved an issue with an android port of PDFBox. The author didn't change the package names after forking PDFBox. We asked him to change that and he complied. ## Activity: - we are working on fixing bugs in 2.0.x - there are some small improvements as well - Maruan started an effort to update our logo. It's still a work in progress ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists ## PMC changes: - Currently 17 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Tim Allison on Mon Sep 19 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 17 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Tim Allison at Mon Sep 19 2016 ## Releases: - 1.8.13 was released on Fri Dec 09 2016 - 2.0.4 was released on Fri Dec 16 2016 ## JIRA activity: - 120 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 105 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: - the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - we are working on fixing bugs in 2.0.x - there are some small improvements as well ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - there is an increasing number of inquiries about our new major version 2.0.x. There are more and more new people being attracted as well as users upgrading from the former 1.8.x version. ## PMC changes: - Currently 17 PMC members. - Tim Allison was added to the PMC on Mon Sep 19 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 17 committers. - Tim Allison was added as a committer on Mon Sep 19 2016 ## Releases: - 2.0.3 was released on Sat Sep 17 2016 ## JIRA activity: - 111 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 94 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: - the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - we are working on fixing bugs in 2.0.x - thanks to Shane, PDFBox is now registered as trademark ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - the core team consists of 4 - 5 active developers - we are still searching for new blood but due to our small community it isn't that easy to accomplish. We started a discussion on private@ right after our last board report ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was John Hewson on Thu Feb 06 2014 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 16 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was John Hewson at Fri Feb 07 2014 ## Releases: - 1.8.12 was released on Tue Apr 26 2016 - 2.0.1 was released on Tue Apr 26 2016 - 2.0.2 was released on Thu Jun 09 2016 ## JIRA activity: - 103 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 87 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - after releasing three RCs we finally got our long awaited major release 2.0.0 out of the door - Sally helped us to spread the word about the new release: - https://s.apache.org/Ly9B - https://s.apache.org/CErv - https://s.apache.org/NK05 - first discussions about possible fields to be included in 2.1.x/3.0.x just started ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - the core team consists of 4 - 5 active developers - due to the new release there were a significant increase of messages on users@ - due to the new release there were a significant decrease of messages on dev@ as we limited our development activities to bugfixes ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was John Hewson on Thu Feb 06 2014 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 16 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was John Hewson at Fri Feb 07 2014 ## Releases: - 1.8.11 was released on Mon Jan 18 2016 - 2.0.0 was released on Fri Mar 18 2016 ## Mailing list activity: - users@pdfbox.apache.org: - 551 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 644 emails sent to list (447 in previous quarter) - dev@pdfbox.apache.org: - 151 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 1907 emails sent to list (3158 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 126 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 120 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time" ## Activity: - we are planning to release the third and hopefully last RC of PDFBox very soon - as there are a lot of fixes for the 1.8 branch we are going to release a bugfix version of the 1.8 branch as well - joining forces with Tim Allison from Apache TIKA to run some bulk tests (analyzing ~250k of pdfs using different of versions of PDFBox) is a huge help in many ways - compare 2.0.0 with 1.8.x (benchmarks as well as comparing results) - determine regressions - observe memory footprint/performance - find pdfs using rare features/combination of features which are unsupported by PDFBox ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - the core team consists of 4 - 5 active developers - after releasing two RCs of the next major version more people show their interest in PDFBox (see the increased number of subscribers to users@) ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was John Hewson at Thu Feb 06 2014 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 16 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was John Hewson at Fri Feb 07 2014 ## Releases: - 1.8.10 on Jul 22 2015 - 2.0.0 RC1 on Oct 19 2015 - 2.0.0 RC2 on Nov 22 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - users@pdfbox.apache.org: - 543 subscribers (up 41 in the last 3 months): - 451 emails sent to list (535 in previous quarter) - dev@pdfbox.apache.org: - 147 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 3260 emails sent to list (2871 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 175 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 163 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Activity: - after a long time of hard work we decided to cut a release candidate for 2.0.0 this october. As we are down to 6 open tickets I'm quite optimistic that it'll really come true - we joined forces with Tim Allison from Apache TIKA to run some bulk tests from time to time to avoid regressions ## Health report: - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the mailing lists - the core team consists of 4 - 5 active developers - we expect to attract more people once our new major release is out of the door ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time" ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was John Hewson at Thu Feb 06 2014 ## LDAP changes: - Currently 16 committers and 16 committee group members. - No new committee group members added in the last 3 months - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was John Hewson at Fri Feb 07 2014 ## Releases: - 1.8.10 was released on Wed Jul 22 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - users@pdfbox.apache.org: - 497 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months): - 519 emails sent to list (578 in previous quarter) - dev@pdfbox.apache.org: - 145 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months): - 2932 emails sent to list (2594 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 151 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 143 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Activity: - the work on our next major release 2.0.0 is an ongoing effort - our plan to cut a first release candidate in April didn't come true - we are down to round about 25 tickets for 2.0.0 ##GSoC - Project "PDFBOX-2530 improve PDFDebugger" is doing nicely, many useful code contributions by the student have been committed, and benefits of the improved PDFDebugger are already being felt. The best is that the activities of the student have motivated other committers to provide additional improvements, so the whole thing is now a group effort that is expanded beyond the original targets ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 16 committers and 16 PMC members in the project. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was John Hewson at Tue Feb 11 2014 - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was John Hewson at Fri Feb 07 2014 ## Releases: - Last release was 1.8.9 on Sat Mar 28 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - users@pdfbox.apache.org: - 496 subscribers (up 15 in the last 3 months): - 579 emails sent to list (572 in previous quarter) - dev@pdfbox.apache.org: - 148 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 2609 emails sent to list (3650 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 110 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 97 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with
PDF documents.
## Activity:
- Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF
Association, see http://s.apache.org/Wsf for further details
- there is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the
community
- we've just released another bugfix release 1.8.9
- the work on our next major release 2.0 is an ongoing effort
- we are planning to cut a first release candidate in April
## GSoC:
- PDFBox participates in GSoC2015 with issue PDFBOX-2530
- Tilman Hausherr is the registered mentor
- there have been two applications
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 16 committers and 16 PMC members in the project.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was John Hewson at Tue Feb 11 2014
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was John Hewson at Fri Feb 07 2014
## Releases:
- 1.8.9 was released on Sat Mar 28 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@pdfbox.apache.org:
- 480 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months):
- 589 emails sent to list (344 in previous quarter)
- dev@pdfbox.apache.org:
- 151 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 3710 emails sent to list (4297 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 153 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 196 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. John Hewson and Tilman Hausherr were added as committers and PMC members to our ranks in February 2014. 493 (481 last report) subscribers on the user@ list 149 (155 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list 170 JIRA tickets were created and 233 were resolved in the past 3 months. Releases -------- Version 1.8.8 was released on 13nd of December 2014. It is an incremental bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x. Development: ------------ The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are: - switch to java 1.6 - enhance the parser - code cleanup - enhance rendering - enhance font handling - add unicode support - reduce memory footprint The long-awaited new major release is still under construction and there is still a lot to do. Most of the bigger parts are done so that we see the light at the end of the tunnel. Software Quality ---------------- There is an ongoing effort to improve PDFBox based on the analysis of different tools such as SonarQube, FindBugs and others. Only last month we reduced the number of issues as reported SonarQube by 20%. We joined our forces with the Tika project. Tim Allison ran some tests on their huge pool of test files pdfs (> 50.000 pdfs) to - avoid regressions when preparing the PDFBox 1.8.8 bugfix release - get clearance for updating Tika to use PDFBox 1.8.8 - find differences/areas for improvements comparing the new major release 2.0 to the current released version 1.8.x - avoid regressions when switching the parser - find areas for improvements/unsupported features and corner case pdfs not exactly following the pdf specs
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. John Hewson and Tilman Hausherr were added as committers and PMC members to our ranks in February 2014. Jukka Zitting stepped back and went emeritus per his own request in April 2014. 481 (451 last report) subscribers on the user@ list 155 (153 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list Releases -------- Version 1.8.7 was released on 19nd of September 2014. It is an incremental bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x. GSoC ---- PDFBOX-1915: (Mentor Tilman Hausherr) The code was merged into the PDFBox codebase and was shipped as part of the 1.8.7 release. Development: ------------ The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are: - switch to java 1.6 - enhance the parser - code cleanup - enhance rendering - enhance font handling - reduce memory footprint We hoped to release the new major release in the late summer but reality proves us wrong. It'll take some more time.
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. 451 (452 last report) subscribers on the user@ list 153 (157 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list Maruan gave a presentation about PDFBox at the PDF Days Europe 2014 in cologne. We got some positive feedback and a couple of people show some interest in our project/community. Releases -------- Version 1.8.5 was released on 2nd of May 2014 Version 1.8.6 was released on 22nd of June 2014 Both are incremental bugfix releases based on PDFBox 1.8.x. GSoC ---- PDFBOX-1912 (Mentor John Hewson): The major components of the OCR support have been completed and the code is currently on the student’s GitHub page awaiting further integration. Student has passed their midterm and plans to work on extended features before making a commit towards the end of the project. PDFBOX-1915: (Mentor Tilman Hausherr) The first half of the project (which is also the core component) has been completed successfully and the student has passed her midterm evaluation. It is planned to commit the code within a few days. Development: ------------ The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are: - switch to java 1.6 - modularization - replace/enhance the parser - code cleanup - enhance rendering We are targeting the late summer as a rough release date for the next major release.
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. John Hewson and Tilman Hausherr were added as committers and PMC members to our ranks in February 2014. Eric Leleu stepped back and went emeritus per his own request in March 2014. 452 (429 last report) subscribers on the user@ list 157 (164 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list Maruan Sahyoun is going to present PDFBox at the PDF Days Europe in Cologne on June 16th-17th. http://www.pdfa.org/event/pdf-days-europe-2014-2/ http://www.pdfa.org/2014/03/pdf-days-europe-2014-agenda/ Releases -------- Version 1.8.4 was released on 31st of January 2014 1.8.4 is an incremental bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x. GSoC ---- John Hewson and Tilman Hausherr prepared 2 projects to be mentored at GSoC 2014 PDFBOX-1912 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1912 PDFBOX-1915 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1915 We received 4 proposals and the rating is ongoing, see timeline at https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014 Development: ------------ Most likely the next bugfix version 1.8.5 will be released in the 2nd quarter. The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are: - switch to java 1.6 - modularization - replace/enhance the parser - refactor the underlying COS model - code cleanup - enhance rendering
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. After adding Maruan Sahyoun and Thomas Chojecki to our ranks in March 2013 there weren't any changes so far. 429 (404 last report) subscribers on the user@ list 164 (160 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list Releases -------- Version 1.8.3 was released on 29th of November 2013 1.8.3 is an incremental bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x. Development: ------------ Most likely the next bugfix version 1.8.4 will be released this quarter. The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are: - switch to java 1.6 - modularization - replace/enhance the parser - refactor the underlying COS model - code cleanup - enhance rendering After the transition to the Apache CMS we are now ready to improve our documentation. We started with an overview of the PDF specification coverage of PDFBox. Furthermore we are going to overhaul the existing test cases. There is an ongoing discussion on how to enhance the test coverage.
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. After adding Maruan Sahyoun and Thomas Chojecki to our ranks in March 2013 there weren't any changes so far. 404 (364 last report) subscribers on the user@ list 160 (156 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list Releases -------- Version 1.8.2 was released on 2th of june 2013 1.8.2 is an incremental bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x. Development: ------------ Most likely the next bugfix version 1.8.3 will be released this quarter. We already started making the preparations. The work on our next major release just started. The main topics are: - switch to java 1.6 - modularization - replace/enhance the parser - refactor the underlying COS model - code cleanup - enhance rendering
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. After adding Maruan Sahyoun and Thomas Chojecki to our ranks in the last quarter there weren't any changes this time. 364 subscribers on the user@ list 156 subscribers on the dev@ list Releases -------- Version 1.8.2 was released on 2th of june 2013 1.8.2 is an incremental bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x. Development: ------------ We are now using the Apache CMS for our website. Thanks to Maruan Sahyoun and Joe Schaefer the migration went smooth without any issues. A discussion about a new major release of PDFBox just started. We already gathered a lot of ideas of possible changes, such as - switch to java 1.6 - modularization - replace/enhance the parser - refactor the underlying COS model - update dependencies including possible api-changes, e.g. bouncy castle - code cleanup - ...
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. We invited two new committers/PMC-members to our ranks and both accepted: Maruan Sahyoun Thomas Chojecki 351 subscribers on the user@ list 154 subscribers on the dev@ list Releases -------- Version 1.8.0 was released on 23th of march 2013 Version 1.8.1 was released on 10th of april 2013 New modules since 1.8.0: Preflight to validate PDF files against the PDF/A-1b ISO standard Xmpbox to handle XMP metadata in PDF file Development: ------------ We decided to use the Apache CMS for our website. Maruan is working on the transition. Next major development cycles: - enhance testing - modularization - parser enhancements
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- It was again a quiet quarter but there is still a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. No new committers/PMC members. 339 subscribers on the user@ list 152 subscribers on the dev@ list Releases -------- At ApacheConEU some of us started a discussion on a possible new release and I hope we will prepare for a new one in the first quarter this year. Version 1.7.1 was released on 25th of July 2012 Development: ------------ The development on the next major release is still in progress. We are currently working on - improved font handling - improved rendering - bugfixing Guillaume finished the refactoring of the xmpbox module.
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- It was a quiet quarter but there is still a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. No new committers/PMC members. Releases -------- PDFBox 1.7.1 was released on 25th of July 2012 Development: ------------ The development on the next major release is still in progress. We are currently working on - improved font handling - improved rendering - refactoring + improved integration of xmpbox - bugfixing Eric finished the refactoring of the preflight module. Guillaume is still working on the xmpbox module.
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. Wolfgang Glas offered to contribute some code to improve the unicode support when creating documents, one of the most asked features. Releases -------- PDFBox 1.7.0 was released on 29 May 2012 We didn't officially release preflight and xmpbox, as the refactoring isn't finished yet. We didn't remove the source but disabled the maven build for it. We are planning to cut a 1.7.1 bug fix release in the near future. Development: ------------ The development on the next release is still in progress. We are currently working on - improved font handling - improved rendering - refactoring + improved integration of preflight - bug fixing We just started a discussion on how to proceed with the next release(s), it looks like the next release will probably be a major one. The new conforming parser works well and will replace the old one at least in the next major release. Eric and Guillaume are making progress on the refactoring of preflight and xmpbox.
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The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. Tharaka Wijebandara is preparing a GSOC proposal for an improvement of the PDFReader coming with PDFBox. Mehdi Houshmand volunteers as mentor. Releases -------- No release this quarter. Development: ------------ The development on the next release is still in progress. We are currently working on - a new conforming parser - improved font handling - improved rendering - refactoring + improved integration of preflight - bugfixing We just started a discussion on how to proceed with the next release(s), if it'll be a major release or if there will be a bugfix/feature release first.
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. Releases -------- No release this quarter. Development: ------------ The development on the next release is still in progress. We are currently working on - a new conforming parser - improved font handling - improved rendering - refactoring + improved integration of preflight Maybe our next release will be a major release, but it's still to early to go for it as the discussion about it just started some time ago.
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- New committers and PMC members: Guillaume Bailleul and Eric Leleu There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. Releases -------- No release this quarter. Development: ------------ Guillaume Bailleul, Eric Leleu, Germain Costenobel and their employer ATOS Worldline donated the codebase of PaDaF a java-based PDF/A validator to the ASF. As it passed the IP-Clearance process, it is now part of PDFBox. The development on the next release is still in progress. We are currently working on - a new conforming parser - improved font handling - improved rendering Project Branding Requirements ----------------------------- Done ==== - Project Website Basics - Project Metadata - Project Naming And Descriptions - Other Trademark Guidelines - Trademark Attributions - Website Navigation Links - Logos And Graphics - Powered By... Logos Nothing left to do.
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- New committer and PMC member: Kevin Jackson There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. Releases -------- - Apache PDFBox 1.6.0 was released on July 2, 2011 Development: ------------ Guillaume Bailleul, Eric Leleu, Germain Costenobel and their employer ATOS Worldline donated the codebase of PaDaF a java-based PDF/A validator to the ASF. As it is based on Apache PDFBox it will be integrated to it as a new submodule. The IP-Clearance process http://s.apache.org/QJa is managed by Andreas. The development on the next release just started. We are currently working on - a new conforming parser - improved true type font handling Project Branding Requirements ----------------------------- Done ==== - Project Website Basics - Project Metadata - Other Trademark Guidelines In progress =========== - Project Naming And Descriptions - Trademark Attributions - Website Navigation Links - Logos And Graphics - Powered By... Logos
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. No new committers or PMC Members were added. Releases -------- - PDFBox 1.5.0 was released on March 3, 2011 Development: ------------ The development on the next release just started. We are currently working on - a signing interface (thanks to Thomas Chojecki for the contribution and to Adam Nichols for the effort to integrate the code) - a better true type font handling to improve rendering and pdf creation Project Branding Requirements ----------------------------- Done ==== - Project Website Basics - Project Metadata - Other Trademark Guidelines In progress =========== - Project Naming And Descriptions - Trademark Attributions - Website Navigation Links - Logos And Graphics - Powered By... Logos
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. No new committers or PMC Members were added. Releases -------- - PDFBox 1.3.1 was released on October 26, 2010 - PDFBox 1.4.0 was released on December 20, 2010 Development: ------------ The development on the next release just started. We are currently working on - a signing interface (thanks to Thomas Chojecki for the contribution and to Adam Nichols for the effort to integrate the code) - a better font handling to improve text extraction and rendering Project Branding Requirements ----------------------------- Done ==== - Project Website Basics - Project Metadata - Other Trademark Guidelines In progress =========== - Project Naming And Descriptions - Trademark Attributions - Website Navigation Links - Logos And Graphics - Powered By... Logos
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. Two of our committers will soon become Adobe employees through an acquisition. Adobe is the creator of the PDF format, so we see this as an opportunity for PDFBox. Releases -------- We are preparing for the next release 1.3.0. Jukka volunteered as release manager. Development: ------------ PDFBox 1.3.0 will again include a lot of improvements and bugfixes: - JPEG2000 support - improved font encoding (CID, CFF-fonts) when extracting text - made the parser more lenient handling out of spec pdfs - improved text extraction - as the additional CMAP files from Adobe are now published under a more suitable license (BSD), we were able to include them directly in svn instead of downloading them as a part of the build process (see LEGAL-36)
General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- The PDFBox PMC voted Adam Nichols as new committer and PMC member. There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. In november Andreas will present PDFBox within the content track at ApacheCon in Atlanta. Releases -------- - PDFBox (incl. FontBox and JempBox) 1.2.0 was released on June 29, 2010 - PDFBox (incl. FontBox and JempBox) 1.2.1 was released on July 11, 2010 Development: ------------ PDFBox 1.2.0 includes a lot of improvements and bug fixes. Because of a significant performance regression we had to release Version 1.2.1 just right after the last version. As some people are interested in using PDFBox for text extraction on AndroidOS and with Google Apps Engine, we are thinking about a more modular design so that it is easier to adapt PDFBox for the usage on those runtime environments with limited java support.
General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- New committers + PMC members: Villu Ruusmann Johannes Koch The activity on both user@ and dev@ mailing list is increasing slightly. There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. Releases -------- - FontBox and PDFBox 1.0.0 were released on February 16, 2010 - FontBox, JempBox and PDFBox 1.1.0 were released on March 31, 2010 Development: ------------ Jukka merged the 3 separate trunks of fontbox, jempbox and pdfbox into one trunk and created a maven environment to build simultaneous releases of all 3 components. Johannes contributed a lot of stuff to support tagged pdfs. The integration of Villus CFF/Type2 support is completed. Due to a contribution of Atsuo Ishimoto we improved the text extracting capabilites of CJK based pdfs. Daniel works on several optimizations to support the .NET version of PDFBox using a more recent version of IKVM. There are a lot of other minor improvements and bugfixes.
Andreas clarified that both Johannes and Atsuo were added as both committers and PMC members simultaneously.
General Comments There are no issues that require Board attention. Due to christmas there was not that much traffic on the mailing lists in december. But now people are returning. JempBox No new releases, no new issues. FontBox We are still working on integrating Villu's patch which adds support for Adobe CFF/Type2 fonts to FontBox. It contains a lot of new classes which have to be reviewed before we can add them. Probably the CFF/Type2 support will give us an alternative to solve a major issue with embedded true type fonts (PDFBOX-490). PDFBox We changed some external libraries to more recent versions. We received a lot of promising patches from different contributors in the last months. E.g., there were several patches from Mel Martinez including notable performance improvements for the parser, which Jukka already added to the codebase. As some of the other contributions include substantial changes to the codebase, we have to ask the contributors to sign a CLA first.
General Comments There are no issues that require Board attention. The transfer of PDFBox from the incubator to its new home as an Apache TLP is completed. We decided to upgrade to Java 5 with the upcoming 1.0.0 version. JempBox We released the first version (1.0.0) of JempBox as an Apache TLP. FontBox After receiving an ICLA from Villu Ruusmann we are able to integrate his contribution which adds support for Adobe CFF/Type2 fonts to FontBox. Following the integration we will prepare to release the first version of FontBox. PDFBox Jukka switched the PDFBox build from ant to maven. Some minor issues were solved and some minor improvements were added. Right after the release of FontBox we will start planning the first release of PDFBox as TLP.
General Comments There are no issues that require Board attention. We are still working on transferring PDFBox from the incubator to its new home as an Apache TLP. JempBox Jukka switched the JempBox build from ant to maven. We are discussing to replace JempBox with Apache XMLGraphics. Jeremias volunteers to implement the missing features which are needed by PDFBox. FontBox Jukka switched the FontBox build from ant to maven. Andreas tries to fix a major issue with truetype fonts. Additionally we have to check on a contribution from the community which adds support for Adobe CFF/Type2 fonts to FontBox. PDFBox Jukka works on switching the PDFBox build from ant to maven. The activity on both user@ and dev@ mailing list is increasing slightly. There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. We are planning to release a first version as Apache TLP, just right after Jukka finishes switching the build tool.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to reading, creating and manipulating PDF documents for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache PDFBox Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache PDFBox Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to reading, creating and manipulating PDF documents and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache PDFBox" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache PDFBox Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache PDFBox Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache PDFBox Project: * Andreas Lehmkühler <lehmi@apache.org> * Ben Litchfield <blitchfield@apache.org> * Brian Carrier <carrier@apache.org> * Daniel Wilson <danielwilson@apache.org> * Jeremias Märki <jeremias@apache.org> * Jukka Zitting <jukka@apache.org> * Philipp Koch <pkoch@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andreas Lehmkühler be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache PDFBox, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache PDFBox PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache PDFBox Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache PDFBox Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator PDFBox podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator PDFBox podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7H, Establish the Apache PDFBox Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008. The PDFBox project continues doing well. Perhaps due to to the summer break, the development activities stuck a little bit, but the community itself is growing. A problem was detected with the naming of the previously released FontBox and JempBox Maven artifacts. Project mentor Jukka Zitting worked around this issue by copying the existing release artifacts to match the Maven metadata (0.8.0-incubator instead of 0.8.0-incubating). It was noted that even though a new release vote wasn't strictly necessary for such an action, it should have been done only based on community consensus. After solving most of the remaining blockers found during the license review we will likely soon make a release of the main PDFBox library. PDFBox will soon be ready to graduate from the Incubator. Issues before graduation: * Closing the last recently resolved legal issues found during the license review * Release PDFBox 0.8.0-incubating * Increase community activity
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008. The PDFBox project continues doing well. We released new versions of the JempBox and FontBox libraries, and will likely soon make a release of the main PDFBox library. The development activity is increasing and the community is diverse. PDFBox will soon be ready to graduate from the Incubator. Issues before graduation: * Resolve remaining issues found during the license review * Release PDFBox 0.8.0-incubating
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008. The past three months have been very good for the PDFBox project. Community activity has increased notably, and we've added Andreas Lehmkuhler and Brian Carrier as committers and PPMC members. The lengthy license review is nearly finished and we're preparing for the first Apache release of PDFBox. Issues before graduation: * Increase community size and activity * Resolve remaining issues found during the license review * First Apache release
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008. The website has been set up. The license review is underway and has already progressed quite far. The export control notification has been set up. These tasks and most other tasks were all performed by PDFBox mentors (mostly by Jukka Zitting). Sadly, there has been almost no participation by the initial committers, yet, except for handling the license grants and CLAs. On the user side, some questions don't seem to get answered. Not many patches have reached us, either. Issues before graduation: * Increase community size and activity * Finish license review * First Apache release
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008. We have finally migrated all sources to Apache svn and set up the project website at http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/. We also set up a CI build using Hudson. Traffic is picking up on the user and developer mailing lists, new issues are being reported through Jira, and there is initial discussion about an incubating 0.8.0 release. Software Grants have been received from Ben Litchfield and Daniel Wilson who are the primary authors of the PDFBox, FontBox and JempBox software. There have been a lot of small contributions (under the BSD license) by a number of other people to the project and it was asked (see http://markmail.org/message/zy6oweihmenqt6o4) on the legal-discuss list whether the primary authors have "sufficient rights" to grant a license for all of the code, or if we have to contact all the other contributors for separate grants. Having received no response to the question on legal-discuss we assumed that software grants from the primary authors was sufficient. We're discussing about what to do with the FontBox and JempBox codebases that are included as subprojects of PDFBox. We might decide to merge them with similar efforts in other Apache projects, most notably XML Graphics. Issues before graduation: * Increase community size and activity * License review * Export control notifications * First Apache release
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008. No progress last month as we're still waiting for the software grants for the PDFBox sources. Once received, we'll finish the migration to Apache infrastructure. We also need to do a more thorough license and export review and work on migrating the web sites and the user community. Issues before graduation: * Bring the sources to Apache * Increase community size and activity * Release once all licensing and export issues are resolved
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008. The contents of the issue trackers at SourceForge have been migrated to Jira. We've also created a pdfbox-users mailing list and plan to point people from the SourceForge support forums to that list. The project sources have not yet been migrated to Apache svn. Issues before graduation: * Bring the sources to Apache * Increase community size and activity * Release once all licensing and export issues are resolved
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008. The basic project infrastructure (lists, svn, jira, etc.) is already in place, and we are currently working on migrating the source code and existing issues from SourceForge. We have also requested a user mailing list to replace the current help forums on SourceForge. PDFBox uses the Bouncy Castle crypto libraries for handling encrypted PDF files. We will take care of export control issues as we proceed with importing the PDFBox sources to Apache.
PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008. The PDFBox project has just entered incubation, and we're currently setting up the project infrastructure. A question about the licensing of the JAI dependency was voiced on the mailing list.