Dear All,

The Open Preservation Foundation are pleased to announce that the first
veraPDF 1.16 release candidate is now available for community testing.
Download the release candidate here
<https://software.verapdf.org/develop/verapdf-installer-rc.zip>.


This release includes new features and fixes including:

   -

   Added support for Function objects in PDF
   -

   Added detection and validation of the XMP encoding
   -

   Extended veraPDF model to include structure tree
   -

   More robust PDF parsing in case of critical low-level syntax errors
   -

   Optimized memory usage for more efficient batch processing with a large
   number of validation errors
   -

   GUI application improvements


We are also working towards PDF/UA validation, with added support for
tagging structure of PDF. Read the draft release notes
<https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/releases/tag/v1.16.0-RC1> for
more information.

There are still some spaces available for our webinar
<https://openpreservation.org/event/whats-new-in-verapdf-1-16/> this
afternoon to find out more about the new release.

Kind Regards,
Charlotte

-- 
Charlotte Armstrong | Project Officer | Open Preservation Foundation
<https://openpreservation.org/>
Twitter: @openpreserve <https://twitter.com/openpreserve> | Skype:
charlotte.armstrong_7