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

Version 2.9.0, 2022-07-31

What's Changed

New Features (ENH)

• Add ability to add hex encoded colors to outline items (#1186) by @mtd91429
• Add support for pathlib.Path in PdfMerger.merge (#1190) by @MartinThoma
• Add link annotation (#1189) by @MartinThoma
• Add capability to filter text extraction by orientation (#1175) by @pubpub-zz

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Named Dest in PDF1.1 (#1174) by @pubpub-zz
• Incomplete Graphic State save/restore (#1172) by @pubpub-zz

Documentation (DOC)

• Update changelog url in package metadata (#1180) by @mkniewallner
• Mention camelot for table extraction (#1179) by @MartinThoma
• Mention pyHanko for signing PDF documents (#1178) by @MartinThoma
• We have CMAP support since a while (#1177) by @MartinThoma

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Consistent usage of warnings / log messages (#1164) by @MartinThoma
• Consistent terminology for outline items (#1156) by @mtd91429

New Contributors

• @mkniewallner made their first contribution in #1180 🎉

Full Changelog: 2.8.1...2.9.0

Version 2.8.1, 2022-07-25

What's Changed

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• u_hash in AlgV4.compute_key (#1170) by @exiledkingcc

Robustness (ROB)

• Fix loading of file from #134 (#1167)
• Cope with empty DecodeParams (#1165) by @pubpub-zz

Documentation (DOC)

• Typo in merger deprecation warning message (#1166) by @pubpub-zz

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Package updates; solve mypy strict remarks (#1163)

Testing (TST)

• Add test from #325 (#1169) by @pubpub-zz

Full Changelog: 2.8.0...2.8.1

Version 2.8.0, 2022-07-24

What's Changed

Thank you @pubpub-zz and @exiledkingcc for your contributions ❤️

New Features (ENH)

• Add writer.add_annotation, page.annotations, and generic.AnnotationBuilder (#1120)

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Set /AS for /Btn form fields in writer (#1161)
• Ignore if /Perms verify failed (#1157)

Robustness (ROB)

• Cope with utf16 character for space calculation (#1155)
• Cope with null params for FitH / FitV destination (#1152)
• Handle outlines without valid destination (#1076)

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Introduce _utils.logger_warning (#1148)

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Break up parse_to_unicode (#1162)
• Add diagnostic output to exception in read_from_stream (#1159)
• Reduce PdfReader.read complexity (#1151)

Testing (TST)

• Add workflow tests found by arc testing (#1154)
• Decrypt file which is not encrypted (#1149)
• Test CryptRC4 encryption class; test image extraction filters (#1147)

Full Changelog: 2.7.0...2.8.0

Version 2.7.0, 2022-07-21

What's Changed

New Features (ENH)

• Add outline_count property (#1129)

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Make reader.get_fields also return dropdowns with options (#1114)
• Add deprecated EncodedStreamObject functions back until PyPDF2==3.0.0 (#1139)

Robustness (ROB)

• Cope with missing /W entry (#1136)
• Cope with invalid parent xref (#1133)

Documentation (DOC)

• Contributors file (#1132)
• Fix type in signature of PdfWriter.add_uri (#1131)

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Add .git-blame-ignore-revs (#1141)

Code Style (STY)

• Fixing typos (#1137)
• Re-use code via get_outlines_property in tests (#1130)

New Contributors

• @KourFrost made their first contribution in #1114

Full Changelog: 2.6.0...2.7.0

Version 1.28.5, 2022-07-21

What's Changed

• BUG: Add missing deprecated EncodedStreamObject functions by @MasterOdin in #1140

Full Changelog: 1.28.4...1.28.5

2.6.0

What's Changed

New Features (ENH)

• Add color and font_format to PdfReader.outlines[i] (#1104)
• Extract Text Enhancement (whitespaces) (#1084)

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Use build_destination for named destination outlines (#1128)
• Avoid a crash when a ToUnicode CMap has an empty dstString in beginbfchar (#1118)
• Prevent deduplication of PageObject (#1105)
• None-check in DictionaryObject.read_from_stream (#1113)
• Avoid IndexError in _cmap.parse_to_unicode (#1110)

Documentation (DOC)

• Explanation for git submodule
• Watermark and stamp (#1095)

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Text extraction improvements (#1126)
• Destination.color returns ArrayObject instead of tuple as fallback (#1119)
• Use add_bookmark_destination in add_bookmark (#1100)
• Use add_bookmark_destination in add_bookmark_dict (#1099)

Testing (TST)

• Add test for arab text (#1127)
• Add xfail for decryption fail (#1125)
• Add xfail test for IndexError when extracting text (#1124)
• Add MCVE showing outline title issue (#1123)

Code Style (STY)

• Use IntFlag for permissions_flag / update_page_form_field_values (#1094)
• Simplify code (#1101)

New Contributors

• @mtd91429 made their first contribution in #1104
• @dkg made their first contribution in #1110
• @jlshin made their first contribution in #1113

Full Changelog: 2.5.0...2.6.0