Version 5.8.0, 2025-07-13

What's new

New Features (ENH)

• Implement flattening for writer (#3312) by @PJBrs

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Unterminated object when using PdfWriter with incremental=True (#3345) by @m32

Robustness (ROB)

• Resolve some image extraction edge cases (#3371) by @stefan6419846
• Ignore faulty trailing newline during RLE decoding (#3355) by @henningkoertelgmg
• Gracefully handle odd-length strings in parse_bfchar (#3348) by @stefan6419846

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Modernize license specifiers (#3338) by @stefan6419846

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Reduce max-complexity of tool.ruff.lint.mccabe (#3365) by @j-t-1
• Refactor text extraction code by @MartinThoma

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