Version 5.0.0, 2024-09-17
This version drops support for Python 3.7 (not maintained since July 2023), PdfMerger (use PdfWriter instead) and AnnotationBuilder (use annotations instead).
Deprecations (DEP)
- Remove the deprecated PfdMerger and AnnotationBuilder classes and other deprecations cleanup (#2813)
- Drop Python 3.7 support (#2793)
New Features (ENH)
- Add capability to remove /Info from PDF (#2820)
- Add incremental capability to PdfWriter (#2811)
- Add UniGB-UTF16 encodings (#2819)
- Accept utf strings for metadata (#2802)
- Report PdfReadError instead of RecursionError (#2800)
- Compress PDF files merging identical objects (#2795)
Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Fix sheared image (#2801)
Robustness (ROB)
- Robustify .set_data() (#2821)
- Raise PdfReadError when missing /Root in trailer (#2808)
- Fix extract_text() issues on damaged PDFs (#2760)
- Handle images with empty data when processing an image from bytes (#2786)