Version 2.10.8, 2022-09-14

What's Changed

• ROB: Improve NameObject reading/writing by @pubpub-zz in #1345
• ENH: Add PageObject.user_unit property by @MartinThoma in #1336

Full Changelog: 2.10.7...2.10.8

Version 2.10.7, 2022-09-11

What's Changed

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Fix Error in transformations (#1341) by @pubpub-zz
• Decode #23 in NameObject (#1342) by @pubpub-zz

Testing (TST)

• Use pytest.warns() for warnings, and .raises() for exceptions (#1325) by @mgorny

New Contributors

• @mgorny made their first contribution in #1325

Full Changelog: 2.10.6...2.10.7

2.10.6

What's Changed

Two robustness issues were fixed by @pubpub-zz - thank you 🙏
The infinite loop issue might also be a security concern, depending on how you use PyPDF2.

Robustness (ROB):

• Fix infinite loop due to Invalid object (#1331)
• Fix image extraction issue with superfluous whitespaces (#1327)

Full Changelog: 2.10.5...2.10.6

Version 1.28.6, 2022-09-08

This is a bugfix for the old 1.x branch of PyPDF2 that still supports Python 2. Please try to update to the latest PyPDF2 > 2.0.0 version to get way better text extraction, support for modern encryption, and much more.

What's Changed

• BUG: Adjust 'super' calls for Python 2 by @omit66 in #1335

New Contributors

• @omit66 made their first contribution in #1335

Full Changelog: 1.28.5...1.28.6

Version 2.10.5, 2022-09-04

What's Changed

New Features (ENH)

• Process XRefStm (#1297)
• Auto-detect RTL for text extraction (#1309) by @pubpub-zz

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Avoid scaling cropbox twice (#1314) by @yegorLitvinov

Robustness (ROB)

• Fix offset correction in revised PDF (#1318) by @pubpub-zz
• Crop data of /U and /O in encryption dictionary to 48 bytes (#1317) by @exiledkingcc
• MultiLine bfrange in cmap (#1299) by @pubpub-zz
• Cope with 2 digit codes in bfchar (#1310) by @pubpub-zz
• Accept '/annn' charset as ASCII code (#1316) by @pubpub-zz
• Log errors during Float / NumberObject initialization (#1315) by @pubpub-zz
• Cope with corrupted entries in xref table (#1300) by @pubpub-zz

Documentation (DOC)

• Migration guide (PyPDF2 1.x ➔ 2.x) (#1324)
• Creating a coverage report (#1319)
• Fix AnnotationBuilder.free_text example (#1311)
• Fix usage of page.scale by replacing it with page.scale_by (#1313) by @yegorLitvinov

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Only run coverage for PyPDF2

Maintenance (MAINT)

• PdfReaderProtocol (#1303)
• Throw PdfReadError if Trailer can't be read (#1298) by @ediamondscience
• Remove catching OverflowException (#1302)

Testing (TST)

• Catch Exception for sample-files repo (#1307)

New Contributors

• @ediamondscience made their first contribution in #1298
• @yegorLitvinov made their first contribution in #1313
• @markdlevy made their first contribution in #1311

Full Changelog: 2.10.4...2.10.5

Version 2.10.4, 2022-08-28

What's Changed

Robustness (ROB)

• Fix errors/warnings on no /Resources within extract_text (#1276) by @pubpub-zz
• Add required line separators in ContentStream ArrayObjects (#1281) by @pubpub-zz

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Use NameObject idempotency (#1290)

Testing (TST)

• Rectangle deletion (#1289)
• Add workflow tests (#1287)
• Remove files after tests ran (#1286)

Packaging (PKG)

• Add minimum version for typing_extensions requirement (#1277) by @Shortfinga

New Contributors

• @Shortfinga made their first contribution in #1277

Full Changelog: 2.10.3...2.10.4

Version 2.10.3, 2022-08-21

What's Changed

Robustness (ROB)

• Decrypt returns empty bytestring (#1258) by @pubpub-zz

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Modify CI to better verify built package contents (#1244) by @MasterOdin

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Let PdfMerger._create_stream raise NotImplemented (#1251) and
  remove 'mine' as PdfMerger always creates the stream (#1261)
• password param of _security._alg32(...) is only a string, not bytes (#1259)
• Remove unreachable code in read_block_backwards (#1250) and _extract_text (#1262)

Testing (TST)

• Delete annotations (#1263)
• Close PdfMerger in tests (#1260)
• PdfReader.xmp_metadata workflow (#1257)
• Various PdfWriter (Layout, Bookmark deprecation) (#1249)

Full Changelog: 2.10.2...2.10.3

Version 2.10.2, 2022-08-15

Full Changelog: 2.10.1...2.10.2

Version 2.10.1, 2022-08-15

What's Changed

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• TreeObject.remove_child had a non-PdfObject assignment for Count (#1233, #1234)
• Fix stream truncated prematurely (#1223) by @pubpub-zz

Documentation (DOC)

• Fix docstring formatting (#1228)

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Split generic.py (#1229)

Testing (TST)

• Decrypt AlgV4 with owner password (#1239)
• AlgV5.generate_values (#1238)
• TreeObject.remove_child / empty_tree (#1235, #1236)
• create_string_object (#1232)
• Free-Text annotations (#1231)
• generic._base (#1230)
• Strict get fonts (#1226)
• Increase PdfReader coverage (#1219, #1225)
• Increase PdfWriter coverage (#1237)
• 100% coverage for utils.py (#1217)
• PdfWriter exception non-binary stream (#1218)
• Don't check coverage for deprecated code (#1216)

Full Changelog: 2.10.0...2.10.1

Version 2.10.0, 2022-08-07

What's Changed

New Features (ENH):

• "with" support for PdfMerger and PdfWriter (#1193) by @JianzhengLuo
• Add AnnotationBuilder.text(...) to build text annotations (#1202)

Bug Fixes (BUG):

• Allow IndirectObjects as stream filters (#1211)

Documentation (DOC):

• Font scrambling
• Page vs Content scaling (#1208)
• Example for orientation parameter of extract_text (#1206) by @pubpub-zz
• Fix AnnotationBuilder parameter formatting (#1204)

Developer Experience (DEV):

• Add flake8-print (#1203)

Maintenance (MAINT):

• Introduce WrongPasswordError / FileNotDecryptedError / EmptyFileError (#1201) by @chilledgeek

Full Changelog: 2.9.0...2.10.0

New Contributors 🎉

• @JianzhengLuo made their first contribution in #1193
• @chilledgeek made their first contribution in #1201

Full Changelog: 2.9.0...2.10.0