Version 2.5.0, 2022-07-10

[MartinThoma]

What's Changed

New Features (ENH)

• Add support for indexed color spaces / BitsPerComponent for decoding PNGs (BUG: Byte math errors for decoding bitmap PNGs #1067)
• Add PageObject._get_fonts (ENH: Add PdfReader._get_fonts #1083)

Performance Improvements (PI)

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

Bug Fixes (BUG)

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

Robustness (ROB)

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

Documentation (DOC)

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

Developer Experience (DEV)

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

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Set page.rotate(angle: int) (MAINT: Annotate angle parameter of page.rotate with int instead of float #1092)
• Issue PyPDF2.utils.PdfReadError: file has not been decrypted #416 was fixed by ENH: Support R6 decrypting #1015 (MAINT: Issue #416 was fixed by #1015 #1078)

Testing (TST)

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

Code Style (STY)

• Apply black
• Typo in Changelog

Full Changelog: 2.4.2...2.5.0

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This discussion was created from the release Version 2.5.0, 2022-07-10.

[MartinThoma]

We are now below 100 open issues and only have 10 open PRs 🎉