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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ For a detailed list of changes, please see the file
- Many performance enhancements have been added. In developer
performance benchmarks, gains on the order of 20% have been
observed. Most of that work, including major optimization of
- qpdf's lexical layer, was done by M. Holger.
+ qpdf's lexical and parsing layers, was done by M. Holger.
- Replacement of ``PointerHolder`` with ``std::shared_ptr``
@@ -178,6 +178,12 @@ For a detailed list of changes, please see the file
``replaceKeyAndGetOld``, a ``null`` object if the object was not
previously there.
+ - The method ``QPDFObjectHandle::getOwningQPDF`` now returns a
+ null pointer (rather than an invalid pointer) if the owning
+ ``QPDF`` object has been destroyed. This situation should
+ generally not happen for correct code, but at least the
+ situation is detectible now.
+
- Add new ``Pipeline`` methods to reduce the amount of casting that is
needed:
@@ -247,6 +253,9 @@ For a detailed list of changes, please see the file
some additional caching to reduce the overhead of repeatedly
reading environment variables at runtime.
+ - Lots of code cleanup and refactoring work was contributed in
+ multiple pull requests by M. Holger.
+
10.6.3: March 8, 2022
- Announcement of upcoming change: