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Comment by mtrycz | Hacker News Reader

I see that they have released 2.0 lately, but can't find any dates, nor the improvements over 1.x. Is this the news? A press release would be better, probably. It's not [Show HN], it's an established Apache project, so I don't get what the news is here.

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While it's interesting to look for the latest changes in this project, even if there were none, it would still be a very valid submission since HN isn't specifically a news website.

In fact, I see so many "what's the news" posts that I sometimes think they should change the name!

Sorry, here's the link to the press release:

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_softwar...

I've used that at the startup I work, had to move from 1.x to 2.0 because the font support is miles better. Don't know about other minor improvements. Eventually we switched to https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/ because it makes for a much smoother experience overall for our use case (import pdfs into a lookbook, is a webapp for designer)

Their "Migration Guide" [1] contains a list of improvements. They should probably add a date to their pages, but reading their mailing list the release is at most a few days old.

[1]: http://pdfbox.apache.org/2.0/migration.html

The download pages do have dates, albeit you have to hunt to find them:

http://mirror.vorboss.net/apache/pdfbox/

  [DIR] 1.8.11/                 2016-01-17 21:55    -   
  [DIR] 2.0.0/                  2016-03-18 12:02    -

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