diff --git a/contrib/extraction/CHANGES.txt b/contrib/extraction/CHANGES.txt
index 5b2729bd3dd..1609b2da955 100644
--- a/contrib/extraction/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/contrib/extraction/CHANGES.txt
@@ -17,8 +17,12 @@ You will need Solr up and running.  Then, simply add the extraction JAR file, pl
 to your Solr Home lib directory.  See http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtractingRequestHandler for more details on hooking it in
  and configuring.
 
-
 $Id:$
+
+================== Release 1.5-dev ==================
+
+* SOLR-1567: Upgrade to Tika 0.5, which upgrades many of the underlying libraries (PDFBox, for example) too (gsingers)
+
 ================== Release 1.4.0 ==================
 
 1. SOLR-284:  Added in support for extraction. (Eric Pugh, Chris Harris, gsingers)
@@ -34,4 +38,4 @@ $Id:$
     for discussion on language detection.
     See http://www.apache.org/dist/lucene/tika/CHANGES-0.4.txt. (gsingers)
 
-6. SOLR-1274: Added text serialization output for extractOnly (Peter Wolanin, gsingers)    
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+6. SOLR-1274: Added text serialization output for extractOnly (Peter Wolanin, gsingers)    
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diff --git a/contrib/extraction/lib/geronimo-stax-api_1.0_spec-1.0.1.jar b/contrib/extraction/lib/geronimo-stax-api_1.0_spec-1.0.1.jar
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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diff --git a/contrib/extraction/lib/jempbox-0.2.0.jar b/contrib/extraction/lib/jempbox-0.2.0.jar
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diff --git a/contrib/extraction/lib/metadata-extractor-2.4.0-beta-1.jar b/contrib/extraction/lib/metadata-extractor-2.4.0-beta-1.jar
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diff --git a/contrib/extraction/lib/pdfbox-0.7.3.jar b/contrib/extraction/lib/pdfbox-0.7.3.jar
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diff --git a/contrib/extraction/lib/poi-3.5-FINAL.jar b/contrib/extraction/lib/poi-3.5-FINAL.jar
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/contrib/extraction/lib/poi-3.5-FINAL.jar
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diff --git a/contrib/extraction/lib/tagsoup-1.2.jar b/contrib/extraction/lib/tagsoup-1.2.jar
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diff --git a/contrib/extraction/lib/tika-core-0.4.jar b/contrib/extraction/lib/tika-core-0.4.jar
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diff --git a/contrib/extraction/src/main/java/org/apache/solr/handler/extraction/ExtractingRequestHandler.java b/contrib/extraction/src/main/java/org/apache/solr/handler/extraction/ExtractingRequestHandler.java
index 0d870366d31..32cb7b3a13c 100644
--- a/contrib/extraction/src/main/java/org/apache/solr/handler/extraction/ExtractingRequestHandler.java
+++ b/contrib/extraction/src/main/java/org/apache/solr/handler/extraction/ExtractingRequestHandler.java
@@ -76,11 +76,7 @@ public class ExtractingRequestHandler extends ContentStreamHandlerBase implement
           throw new SolrException(ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, e);
         }
       } else {
-        try {
-          config = TikaConfig.getDefaultConfig();
-        } catch (TikaException e) {
-          throw new SolrException(ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, e);
-        }
+        config = TikaConfig.getDefaultConfig();
       }
       NamedList configDateFormats = (NamedList) initArgs.get(DATE_FORMATS);
       if (configDateFormats != null && configDateFormats.size() > 0) {
@@ -92,11 +88,7 @@ public class ExtractingRequestHandler extends ContentStreamHandlerBase implement
         }
       }
     } else {
-      try {
-        config = TikaConfig.getDefaultConfig();
-      } catch (TikaException e) {
-        throw new SolrException(ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, e);
-      }
+      config = TikaConfig.getDefaultConfig();
     }
     factory = createFactory();
   }