Release iText 7.0.3

With 7.0.3 we're bringing you another maintenance release for iText 7 Community. We've also updated pdfSweep to 1.0.2, pdfXFA to 1.0.1 and the license key library to 2.0.4.

As these are maintenance releases, there are no major new features. Hereby, a quick overview per product of the fixes and improvements included in the new release.

iText 7 Core/Community 7.0.3

Improvements for smart mode (= reusing identical resources) and copying pages with form fields.
Added ECDSA algorithm OIDs.
Table layout improvements.
Fixed XXE vulnerability.
Various improvements for layout algorithms.

pdfSweep 1.0.2

Maintenance release.

pdfXFA 1.0.1

Clean up of the API.
Updated dependencies for hyphenation and Asian fonts.

License Key Library 2.0.4

More user friendly error handling.
Fixed XXE vulnerability.

iText 7.0.3 Core

BUG

DEVSIX-1228: Copy in Smart Mode: Documents with many pages take up huge memory space
DEVSIX-1232: text alignment justified is not applied correctly for Tamil
DEVSIX-1273: XXE vulnerability in PdfReader when parsing XFA
DEVSIX-1304: Javadocs jars are empty
DEVSIX-1305: Javascript in Javadocs
DEVSIX-1094: PdfSweep mangles the .pdf
DEVSIX-1145: Html2Pdf and Layout: Review Html2Pdf css media print test with Float property
DEVSIX-1154: Incorrect table border is drawn when colspans are set
DEVSIX-1185: When height of column renderer is too small text does not proceed to next area
DEVSIX-1190: Layout: exception on second layout of tables when empty row has been removed
DEVSIX-1198: pdfXfa: review failed test in .Net version
DEVSIX-1204: PdfImageXObject.GetImageBytes() goes into eternal loop (.NET only)
DEVSIX-1208: PdfSimpleFont.decodeIntoGlyphLine cannot handle Type3 font
DEVSIX-1234: Auto-sizing of fonts not done in PdfSignatureAppearance
DEVSIX-1235: better colorspace support
DEVSIX-1244: Unnamed fields put at incorrect place in hierarchy
DEVSIX-1249: Layouting tables results in exception with immediateFlush=false
DEVSIX-1280: Tabs are only applied to one inline element following the tab
DEVSIX-1102: Merging a document with outlines triggers a PdfException
DEVSIX-1103: Merging a document with outlines created in Adobe DC drops the outlines
DEVSIX-1106: Investigate: column widths not respected when adding image/barcode
DEVSIX-1118: Ignore /Differences entries that come out over 255 in extraction
DEVSIX-1126: Html2Pdf: Some images not correctly retrieved from href
DEVSIX-1167: pdfSweep does not sweep at the correct location
DEVSIX-1173: Signature Appearance not added when page has a pre-existing anots array that is indirectly referenced.
DEVSIX-1197: Initial nbsp gets ignored
DEVSIX-1202: License Key: Version number w/ 4 digits
DEVSIX-1203: License Key: Version Instantiation w/ exception being rethrown in catch clause
DEVSIX-1229: pdfHTML: Tagged Pdf, <a> tags not tagged as Link
DEVSIX-1231: Text Alignment using pdf2html : content is not justified
DEVSIX-1233: Deferred Signing: Nullpointer exception when signing deferred in append mode
DEVSIX-1237: PdfTextExtractor: allow GraphicsState as PdfStream ?
DEVSIX-1259: Typography: Tamil cluster not recognized as such
DEVSIX-1261: pdfXfa: Incorrect Flattening of XFA which contains Chinese content
DEVSIX-1262: Layout: FixedPosition y-position lost for large tables
DEVSIX-414: Word spacing doesn't work for composite fonts

Improvement

DEVSIX-1171: FontProvider refactoring
DEVSIX-1188: Layout: allow overriding accessible attributes
DEVSIX-917: Html2Pdf: conversion of lists to Pdf/A
DEVSIX-1008: Html2Pdf: support page-break css properties
DEVSIX-1048: Html2Pdf: support counters
DEVSIX-1057: TableRenderer refactoring: review borders handling
DEVSIX-1141: Limit lookback buffer of autosweep strategy
DEVSIX-1199: Set initial ID
DEVSIX-1205: pdfXfa: Change licensekey dependency to regular branch. Add tests.
DEVSIX-1223: Margin collapse shouldn't be applied if float property is present
DEVSIX-1250: Process tables with big footers / headers
DEVSIX-1251: pdfXfa: Use iText7 versions of hyph and font-asian libraries
DEVSIX-1252: TableWidth documentation
DEVSIX-1254: Floating functionality overlaps float elements when they do not fit in available area
DEVSIX-925: Html2Pdf: better support for white-space css property
DEVSIX-1044: Fix attached list of Javadoc warnings
DEVSIX-1061: Extend table correctly if HEIGHT/MIN_HEIGHT is applied
DEVSIX-1093: Review AffineTransform class
DEVSIX-1107: Refactor large table's borders processing in the context of current border changes
DEVSIX-1108: Layout: Float elements inside tables
DEVSIX-1117: Merge border_refactoring into develop and update all outdated cmps
DEVSIX-1121: Provide constructor with File parameter for PdfWriter and PdfReader
DEVSIX-1125: Investigate who "wins" in collapsing (table/cell/footer/header border) and make changes
DEVSIX-1153: Git pull requests
DEVSIX-1210: Implement MIN/MAX height for Images
DEVSIX-1218: Copy font-information from form
DEVSIX-1221: Tables: fix background for collapsed borders drawing
DEVSIX-1241: Paragraphs with rotation in tables: incorrect width calculation
DEVSIX-1253: Do not write StructParents for pages if it is not necessary
DEVSIX-1260: CompareTool: number tree comparison
DEVSIX-1276: Inconsistent table layout()
DEVSIX-1060: Process alignment and splitting tricky case
DEVSIX-1286: Support specifying security provider in LtvVerification and LtvVerifier

New feature

DEVSIX-1096: Implement support for /E (expansion text)
DEVSIX-1182: Implement new requirements for the PDF 2.0 dig sigs support
DEVSIX-1186: Font resizing inside of Acroforms
DEVSIX-1246: Investigate ECDSA

Task

Layout: Float elements investigation
Html2Pdf: Investigate <form> and related tags
Html2Pdf: support CSS property @font-face
Max width for tables in case nested table
Initial implementation of new PDF 2.0 tag set
Investigate differences PDF 1.7 and 2.0
.NET port of pdfXfa
PDF 2.0: Review AES-256 encryption
PDF 2.0: Review dig sig
PDF 2.0 and digital signatures: create tests set
PDF 2.0: AES 256 sample with form fields
PDF 2.0: Dig sig incremental update sample
Release iText 7 Core for .NET Standard 1.6
Core: location extraction strategy
Add PdfBoolean.valueOf(boolean)
Smart mode: fix serialization and improve caching
Add trial "carte blanche" mechanism
Use iText 5 cert to detect if license key is an iText 5 license
Stable FontRegisterProvider for tests
README.md for .NET port