Security and feature update for webPDF 8

Security update

A security and feature update for webPDF 8 is currently available with revision number 2229.

The important core components OpenJDK (11.0.10) and Tomcat (9.0.41) have also been updated. This allows you to upgrade all used libraries and dependencies to current versions.

We recommend these security updates for all customers, as they are essential for secure and reliable use of webPDF.

This update also fixes issues in webPDF web services that occurred since the release of version 8.

These are the most important fixes and new features:

Server:

  • Security: Update OpenJDK to 11.0.10
  • Security: Update Tomcat to 9.0.41
  • Security: Update all libraries
  • Security/Feature: Update PDF/A converter

Portal:

  • Fix: Duplicate display of content in AcroForms
  • Feature: Display server load in backend

Web services:

  • Fix: Wrong position of redaction
  • Fix: Remove invalid links to deleted pages after "split" or "delete"
  • Feature: Consider color depth when converting graphics
  • Feature: Set language in metadata
  • Fix: Infinite loop on Toolbox split operation
  • Fix: Null pointer exception when inserting XMP data
  • Fix: Error in template when converting an ICS document
  • Feature: Collect server status information and make it available via REST
  • Fix: Mail conversion: remove invalid characters in attachment filenames
  • Fix: Exception during mail conversion and attachment processing with old parameter structure
  • Fix: Exception in mail conversion mode "ConvertMergeEmbed"
  • Fix: Output file size is always zero in billing entry
  • Feature: Support ZUGFeRD 2.1.x in webPDF

If you have any questions or problems, please contact our support.

Downloads​

Here you can find the update as usual: Download page.

The package for Linux via our public repository is available here: Linux packages