Dear all, The Open Preservation Foundation has an exciting double release for you today: the v1.30 release candidates of veraPDF and Arlington are available for community testing! veraPDF is an open-source, industry-supported PDF/A and PDF/UA (Machine checks) validator and part of the OPF reference toolset. The Arlington PDF Checker is an open-source PDF checker based on the Arlington PDF Model. veraPDF 1.30 features several validation improvements and added support for Java 25 in the Core Library. Arlington has the newest model included in this release, with an upgraded veraPDF parser to version 1.30.1 RC and added auto-detect for ISO_19005_3 and WTPDF extensions. To learn more about the new features, see the release notes <https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/releases/tag/v1.30.0-RC1>, or to download the tools, click here <https://openpreservation.org/news/verapdf-and-arlington-1-30-release-candidate/?q=3> . You can also subscribe <http://lists.verapdf.org/listinfo/users>to the veraPDF user mailing list. -- Best wishes, Peadar ------------------------- Peadar Ó Raifeartaigh | Marketing and Communications Officer Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) <https://openpreservation.org/> Bluesky <https://bsky.app/profile/openpreservation.org> | GitHub <https://github.com/openpreserve/> | Mailing List <http://openpreservation.org/subscribe>Received on Thu Feb 19 2026 - 07:02:11 EST