PyMuPDF-1.26.1 released

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PyMuPDF-1.26.1 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

[Linux-aarch64 wheels will be built and uploaded later.]

Changes in version 1.26.1

• Use MuPDF-1.26.2.

• Fixed issues:

  • Fixed show_pdf_page does not like empty pages created by new_page #4520
  • Fixed fitz.get_text ignores 'pages' kwarg #4524
  • Fixed Regression? Spurious error? in insert_pdf in v1.25.4 #4412

• Other:

  • Partial fix for Undetected character styles #4503.
  • New method Document.rewrite_images(), useful for reducing file size, changing image formats, or converting color spaces.
  • Page.get_text(): restrict positional args to match docs.
  • Removed bogus definition of class Shape.
  • Removed release date from module, docs and changelog.
    • pymupdf.pymupdf_date and pymupdf.VersionDate are now both None.
    • They will be removed in a future release.

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