Version 2.12.1, 2022-12-10

[MartinThoma]

What's Changed

Documentation (DOC)

• Deduplicate extract_text docstring (DOC: Deduplicate extract_text docstring #1485)
• How to cite PyPDF2 (DOC: How to cite PyPDF2 #1476)

Maintenance (MAINT)

Consistency changes:

• indirect_ref/ido ➔ indirect_reference, dest➔ page_destination (MAINT: indirect_ref/ido ➔ indirect_reference, dest➔ page_destination #1467) by @kygoben
• owner_pwd/user_pwd ➔ owner_password/user_password (MAINT: owner_pwd/user_pwd ➔ owner_password/user_password #1483)
• position ➜ page_number in Merger.merge (MAINT: position ➔ page_number in Merger.merge #1482) by @Infus3d
• indirect_ref ➜ indirect_reference (MAINT: indirect_ref ➔ indirect_reference #1484)

New Contributors

• @kygoben made their first contribution in MAINT: indirect_ref/ido ➔ indirect_reference, dest➔ page_destination #1467
• @Infus3d made their first contribution in MAINT: position ➔ page_number in Merger.merge #1482

Full Changelog: 2.12.0...2.12.1

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This discussion was created from the release Version 2.12.1, 2022-12-10.

[MartinThoma]

I really hope the consistency changes didn't add a breaking change.

The next release will be PyPDF2==3.0.0 with #1371 and #1437. As it is a major release, we can get rid of some deprecated code as well