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