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

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