JHOVE 1.20 release candidate available

March 21 , 2018

The release candidate for JHOVE 1.20 is now available for testing at:
http://software.openpreservation.org/dev/jhove/jhove-1.20-RC.jar.

JHOVE 1.20 will include improvements to the WAVE module including support for RF64 files, better reporting and minor bug fixes. There are some new validation checks in the PDF module for the header, document catalog and page dictionary. Finally, image format reporting has been added to NISO MIX 1.0 output and PDF image MIME types detection has been fixed.

A list of all the new fixes and features can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/releases/tag/d1.20-RC.1.

If you experience any issues or have any feedback please get in touch.

We are still testing the release candidate and there may be a few small changes before the production release which is planned for the end of March.

Many thanks go to the JHOVE Product Board and contributors to this release.

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