Version 1.24 RC (April 27, 2023)

Applications

• added support for recursive processing of PDF files in ZIP archives
• revised and upgraded plug-ins included into the installation bundle
• added Cancel button in GUI to cancel the job
• added new --progress parameter in CLI to report progress info
• added new --config parameter in CLI to support config file as a new CLI argument
• renamed xml report format option to raw in CLI (xml is now reserved for the default report format)
• enchanced validation error messages and their variable data
• support feature report in json format
• added warnings on incompatible CLI arguments
• fixed saving GUI application settings
• fixed getting log level from the config file
• fixed handling of malformed config files

PDF model

• added new property nestingLevel to Hn structure element
• added new properties firstPageIDValue and lastIDValue to COSDocument
• refactored the properties of XMP and Info dictionary metadata
• refactored the properties for Table structure elements

PDF Parser

• added method to check for an ascii-string
• updated predefined CMaps
• fixed parsing hybrid PDFs
• fixed decoding Flate filters with invalid checksum
• fixed issue with duplicated short and long keys in inline image dictionaries
• added warning for Page objects with missing resources dictionary
• added support for PDF 2.0 namespace and PDF 2.0 standard structure elements

Validation

• (PDF/UA-1) fixed validating TU entry in form fields with multiple Widget annotations
• (PDF/UA-1) refactored Table validation rules
• (PDF/UA-1) added a new rule to check for presence of StructTreeRoot entry in the document catalog
• (PDF/A-2,3,4) fixed issue with false negative for CMYK-based JPEG2000 images in presence of DefaultCMYK color space
• (PDF/A-1,2,3,4) refactored and enchanced metadata fixer functionality
• (PDF/A-2,3,4) permit empty Name for the optional content configuration dictionary
• (PDF/A-2,3,4) fixed validation of circular role mapping
• (PDF/A-1,2,3) updated rules ids to match the exact location of the corresponding "shall" clause in the specification

Core library

• added support for jakarta and Spring Boot 3 (Java 11+ only)
• fixed output encoding of all logs and reports to be UTF8 (independently of locale)