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

Version 2.5.0, 2022-07-10

What's Changed

New Features (ENH)

• Add support for indexed color spaces / BitsPerComponent for decoding PNGs (#1067)
• Add PageObject._get_fonts (#1083)

Performance Improvements (PI)

• Use iterative DFS in PdfWriter._sweep_indirect_references (#1072)

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Let Page.scale also scale the crop-/trim-/bleed-/artbox (#1066)
• Column default for CCITTFaxDecode (#1079)

Robustness (ROB)

• Guard against None-value in _get_outlines (#1060)

Documentation (DOC)

• Stamps and watermarks (#1082)
• OCR vs PDF text extraction (#1081)
• Python Version support
• Formatting of CHANGELOG

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Cache downloaded files (#1070)
• Speed-up for CI (#1069)

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Set page.rotate(angle: int) (#1092)
• Issue #416 was fixed by #1015 (#1078)

Testing (TST)

• Image extraction (#1080)
• Image extraction (#1077)

Code Style (STY)

• Apply black
• Typo in Changelog

Full Changelog: 2.4.2...2.5.0

2.4.2

What's Changed

New Features (ENH)

• Add PdfReader.xfa attribute (#1026)

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Wrong page inserted when PdfMerger.merge is done (#1063)
• Resolve IndirectObject when it refers to a free entry (#1054)

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Added {posargs} to tox.ini (#1055)

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Remove PyPDF2._utils.bytes_type (#1053)

Testing (TST)

• Scale page (indirect rect object) (#1057)
• Simplify pathlib PdfReader test (#1056)
• IndexError of VirtualList (#1052)
• Invalid XML in xmp information (#1051)
• No pycryptodome (#1050)
• Increase test coverage (#1045)

Code Style (STY)

• DOC of compress_content_streams (#1061)
• Minimize diff for #879 (#1049)

Full Changelog: 2.4.1...2.4.2

Version 2.4.1, 2022-06-30

What's Changed

New Features (ENH)

• Add writer.pdf_header property (getter and setter) (#1038)

Performance Improvements (PI)

• Remove b_ call in FloatObject.write_to_stream (#1044)
• Check duplicate objects in writer._sweep_indirect_references (#207)

Documentation (DOC)

• How to surppress exceptions/warnings/log messages (#1037)
• Remove hyphen from lossless (#1041)
• Compression of content streams (#1040)
• Fix inconsistent variable names in add-watermark.md (#1039)
• File size reduction
• Add CHANGELOG to the rendered docs (#1023)

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Handle XML error when reading XmpInformation (#1030)
• Deduplicate Code / add mutmut config (#1022)

Code Style (STY)

• Use unnecessary one-line function / class attribute (#1043)
• Docstring formatting (#1033)

New Contributors

• @Hatell made their first contribution in #207
• @behzadfhm made their first contribution in #1039

Full Changelog: 2.4.0...2.4.1

2.4.0

What's Changed

Thanks to @exiledkingcc PyPDF2 now also supports R6 decryption 🎉 Thank you 🤗

New Features (ENH)

• Support R6 decrypting (#1015)
• Add PdfReader.pdf_header (#1013)

Performance Improvements (PI)

• Remove ord_ calls (#1014)

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Fix missing page for bookmark (#1016)

Robustness (ROB)

• Deal with invalid Destinations (#1028)

Documentation (DOC)

• get_form_text_fields does not extract dropdown data (#1029)
• Adjust PdfWriter.add_uri docstring
• Mention crypto extra_requires for installation (#1017)

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Use /n line endings everywhere (#1027)
• Adjust string formatting to be able to use mutmut (#1020)
• Update Bug report template

Full Changelog: 2.3.1...2.4.0

Version 2.3.1, 2022-06-19

What's Changed

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Forgot to add the interal _codecs subpackage.

Full Changelog: 2.3.0...2.3.1

2.3.0

What's Changed

The highlight of this release is improved support for file encryption
(AES-128 and AES-256, R5 only). See #749 for the amazing work of
@exiledkingcc 🎊 Thank you 🤗

Deprecations (DEP)

• Rename names to be PEP8-compliant (#967)
• PdfWriter.get_page: the pageNumber parameter is renamed to page_number
• PyPDF2.filters:
  • For all classes, a parameter rename: decodeParms ➔ decode_parms
  • decodeStreamData ➔ decode_stream_data
• PyPDF2.xmp:
  • XmpInformation.rdfRoot ➔ XmpInformation.rdf_root
  • XmpInformation.xmp_createDate ➔ XmpInformation.xmp_create_date
  • XmpInformation.xmp_creatorTool ➔ XmpInformation.xmp_creator_tool
  • XmpInformation.xmp_metadataDate ➔ XmpInformation.xmp_metadata_date
  • XmpInformation.xmp_modifyDate ➔ XmpInformation.xmp_modify_date
  • XmpInformation.xmpMetadata ➔ XmpInformation.xmp_metadata
  • XmpInformation.xmpmm_documentId ➔ XmpInformation.xmpmm_document_id
  • XmpInformation.xmpmm_instanceId ➔ XmpInformation.xmpmm_instance_id
• PyPDF2.generic:
  • readHexStringFromStream ➔ read_hex_string_from_stream
  • initializeFromDictionary ➔ initialize_from_dictionary
  • createStringObject ➔ create_string_object
  • TreeObject.hasChildren ➔ TreeObject.has_children
  • TreeObject.emptyTree ➔ TreeObject.empty_tree

New Features (ENH)

• Add decrypt support for V5 and AES-128, AES-256 (R5 only) (#749)

Robustness (ROB)

• Fix corrupted (wrongly) linear PDF (#1008)

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Move PDF_Samples folder into ressources
• Fix typos (#1007)

Testing (TST)

• Improve encryption/decryption test (#1009)
• Add merger test cases with real PDFs (#1006)
• Add mutmut config

Code Style (STY)

• Put pure data mappings in separate files (#1005)
• Make encryption module private, apply pre-commit (#1010)

New Contributors

• @kianmeng made their first contribution in #1007

Full Changelog: 2.2.1...2.3.0

Version 2.2.1, 2022-06-17

What's Changed

Performance Improvements (PI)

• Remove b_ calls (#992, #986)
• Apply improvements to _utils suggested by perflint (#993)

Robustness (ROB)

• utf-16-be' codec can't decode (...) (#995)

Documentation (DOC)

• Remove reference to Scripts (#987)

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Fix type annotations for add_bookmarks (#1000)

Testing (TST)

• Add test for PdfMerger (#1001)
• Add tests for XMP information (#996)
• reader.get_fields / zlib issue / LZW decode issue (#1004)
• reader.get_fields with report generation (#1002)
• Improve test coverage by extracting texts (#998)

Code Style (STY)

• Apply fixes suggested by pylint (#999)

Full Changelog: 2.2.0...2.2.1

Version 2.2.0, 2022-06-13

What's Changed

The 2.2.0 release improves text extraction (#969 - again by @pubpub-zz 🙏):

• Improvements around /Encoding / /ToUnicode
• Extraction of CMaps improved
• Fallback for font def missing
• Support for /Identity-H and /Identity-V: utf-16-be
• Support for /GB-EUC-H / /GB-EUC-V / GBp/c-EUC-H / /GBpc-EUC-V (beta release for evaluation)
• Arabic (for evaluation)
• Whitespace extraction improvements

Those changes should mainly improve the text extraction for non-ASCII alphabets,
e.g. Russian / Chinese / Japanese / Korean / Arabic.

Full Changelog: 2.1.1...2.2.0