diff --git a/RELEASENOTES.md b/RELEASENOTES.md
index 40db8da0b..fd0377c91 100644
--- a/RELEASENOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASENOTES.md
@@ -10,7 +10,22 @@ Versions 1.12 onwards of JHOVE released by the Open Preservation Foundation.
 
 JHOVE 1.16
 ----------
-2016-03-16
+
+### 2017-07-20 : FIX - NPE preventing CrossRefStream objects from being read
+Contains:
+- [Pull Request #258](https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/pull/258)
+
+Fixes PDFs with CrossRefStream objects being reported as "Well-formed and valid" when most of the file's contents remain unchecked.
+
+### 2017-03-20 : FIX - Broken ModuleBase.skipBytes method
+Contains:
+- [Pull Request #194](https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/pull/194)
+
+Fixes:
+- [Issue #71](https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/issues/71)
+- [Issue #193](https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/issues/193)
+
+2017-03-16
 
 ### General
 
diff --git a/jhove-bbt/scripts/create-1.16-target.sh b/jhove-bbt/scripts/create-1.16-target.sh
index 58317c7d2..b410fa970 100644
--- a/jhove-bbt/scripts/create-1.16-target.sh
+++ b/jhove-bbt/scripts/create-1.16-target.sh
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "audit.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i '/^   <module
 
 find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "audit.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's/^   <module release="1.5">UTF8-hul<\/module>$/   <module release="1.6">UTF8-hul<\/module>/' {} \;
 
-find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "audit.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's/^   <module release="1.7">PDF-hul<\/module>$/   <module release="1.8">PDF-hul<\/module>/' {} \;
-find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "audit-PDF-hul.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's/^  <release>1.7<\/release>$/  <release>1.8<\/release>/' {} \;
+find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "audit.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's/^   <module release="1.7">PDF-hul<\/module>$/   <module release="1.9">PDF-hul<\/module>/' {} \;
+find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "audit-PDF-hul.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's/^  <release>1.7<\/release>$/  <release>1.9<\/release>/' {} \;
 
 find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "audit.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's/^   <module release="1.3">WAVE-hul<\/module>$/   <module release="1.4">WAVE-hul<\/module>/' {} \;
 find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "audit-WAVE-hul.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's/^  <release>1.3<\/release>$/  <release>1.4<\/release>/' {} \;
@@ -76,11 +76,11 @@ find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "audit-UTF8-hul.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's/^
 
 find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "*.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's/2011-02-03/2014-07-18/' {} \;
 
-find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "audit-PDF-hul.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's/^  <date>2012-08-12<\/date>$/  <date>2017-03-14<\/date>/' {} \;
+find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "audit-PDF-hul.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's/^  <date>2012-08-12<\/date>$/  <date>2017-07-20<\/date>/' {} \;
 find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "audit-WAVE-hul.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's/^  <date>2007-12-14<\/date>$/  <date>2017-03-14<\/date>/' {} \;
 
-find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "*.pdf.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's%<reportingModule release="1.7" date="2012-08-12">PDF%<reportingModule release="1.8" date="2017-03-14">PDF%' {} \;
-find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "README.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's%<reportingModule release="1.7" date="2012-08-12">PDF%<reportingModule release="1.8" date="2017-03-14">PDF%' {} \;
+find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "*.pdf.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's%<reportingModule release="1.7" date="2012-08-12">PDF%<reportingModule release="1.9" date="2017-07-20">PDF%' {} \;
+find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "README.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's%<reportingModule release="1.7" date="2012-08-12">PDF%<reportingModule release="1.9" date="2017-07-20">PDF%' {} \;
 find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "*.wav.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's%<reportingModule release="1.3" date="2007-12-14">WAVE%<reportingModule release="1.4" date="2017-03-14">WAVE%' {} \;
 
 find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "audit.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's/<rights>.*<\/rights>/<rights>Derived from software Copyright 2004-2011 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Version 1.7 to 1.11 independently released. Version 1.12 onwards released by Open Preservation Foundation. Released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.<\/rights>/' {} \;
@@ -91,28 +91,28 @@ find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "*.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's%Unicode6\.0\.0%
 
 find "${targetRoot}" -type f -name "*.jhove.xml" -exec sed -i 's%<reportingModule release="1.5"%<reportingModule release="1.6"%' {} \;
 
-falsePositivePdfs="pdf-hul-10-814778526.pdf.jhove.xml
-pdf-hul-11-govdocs-152588.pdf.jhove.xml
+falsePositivePdfs="pdf-hul-2-simple-annotated-in-adobe-x.pdf.jhove.xml
+pdf-hul-4-615006647.pdf.jhove.xml
+pdf-hul-4-govdocs-788261.pdf.jhove.xml
+pdf-hul-5-externalLink.pdf.jhove.xml
+pdf-hul-10-814778526.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-15-grid-system.pdf.jhove.xml
-pdf-hul-2-simple-annotated-in-adobe-x.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-33-826355544.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-39-616615442.pdf.jhove.xml
-pdf-hul-4-615006647.pdf.jhove.xml
-pdf-hul-4-govdocs-788261.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-40-61501688X.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-40-govdocs-088919.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-41-834460599.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-44-629642362.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-45-52897422X.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-45-govdocs-600753.pdf.jhove.xml
-pdf-hul-5-externalLink.pdf.jhove.xml
+pdf-hul-51-govdocs-085551.pdf.jhove.xml
+pdf-hul-52-govdocs-983827.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-55-govdocs-616137.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-56-improperly-constructed-page-tree.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-59-629642362.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-59-govdocs-681811.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-64-616615027.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-65-847453723.pdf.jhove.xml
-pdf-hul-8-Secured.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-84-govdocs-484279.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-87-embedded_video_avi.pdf.jhove.xml
 pdf-hul-87-webCapture.pdf.jhove.xml"
diff --git a/jhove-modules/src/main/java/edu/harvard/hul/ois/jhove/module/PdfModule.java b/jhove-modules/src/main/java/edu/harvard/hul/ois/jhove/module/PdfModule.java
index d07d5bb6b..8c7fce3ee 100644
--- a/jhove-modules/src/main/java/edu/harvard/hul/ois/jhove/module/PdfModule.java
+++ b/jhove-modules/src/main/java/edu/harvard/hul/ois/jhove/module/PdfModule.java
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ public class PdfModule
      ******************************************************************/
 
     private static final String NAME = "PDF-hul";
-    private static final String RELEASE = "1.8";
-    private static final int [] DATE = {2017, 3, 14};
+    private static final String RELEASE = "1.9";
+    private static final int [] DATE = {2017, 7, 20};
     private static final String [] FORMAT = {
         "PDF", "Portable Document Format"
     };
diff --git a/jhove-modules/src/main/java/edu/harvard/hul/ois/jhove/module/pdf/CrossRefStream.java b/jhove-modules/src/main/java/edu/harvard/hul/ois/jhove/module/pdf/CrossRefStream.java
index 0ba35c121..19058a292 100644
--- a/jhove-modules/src/main/java/edu/harvard/hul/ois/jhove/module/pdf/CrossRefStream.java
+++ b/jhove-modules/src/main/java/edu/harvard/hul/ois/jhove/module/pdf/CrossRefStream.java
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ public boolean isValid () {
 
                 _index = new IndexRange[indexObjCount / 2];
                 for (int i = 0; i < _index.length; i++) {
+                    _index[i] = new IndexRange();
                     _index[i].start = ((PdfSimpleObject)indexObjs.get(i * 2)).getIntValue();
                     _index[i].len = ((PdfSimpleObject)indexObjs.get(i * 2 + 1)).getIntValue();
                 }
@@ -112,6 +113,7 @@ public boolean isValid () {
             else {
                 // Set up default index.
                 _index = new IndexRange[1];
+                _index[0] = new IndexRange();
                 _index[0].start = 0;
                 _index[0].len = _size;
             }