Hi,
find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to submit this
month.
@John
Any news about "your" GSoC project?
Any further comments, objections or additions?
<draft>
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF
documents.
General Comments
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There are no issues that require Board attention.
Community
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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
Releases
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Version 1.8.8 was released on 13nd of December 2014. It is an incremental bugfix
release based on PDFBox 1.8.x.
Development:
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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.
</draft>
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
