The Apache PDFBox Team would like to inform you that PDFBox 1.8.17is the last release of the 1.8 branch, which has reached its end of life and won't be longer officially supported.
The current community mainly maintains the 2.0.x branch and the brand new 3.0.x branch. We recommend everyone to upgrade at least to the 2.0.x branch for the best experience.
[1] https://pdfbox.apache.org/2.0/migration.html [2] https://pdfbox.apache.org/3.0/migration.html Thanks, The Apache PDFBox Team
