Version 5.2.0, 2025-01-26

What's new

Deprecations (DEP)

• Deprecate with replacement CCITParameters (#3019) by @j-t-1
• Correct deprecation of interiour_color (#2947) by @j-t-1

New Features (ENH)

• Support alternative (U)F names for embedded file retrieval (#3072) by @stefan6419846
• Adding support for reading .metadata.keywords (#2939) by @Lucas-C

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Handle further Tf operators in text extraction layout mode (#3073) by @blushingpenguin
• Ensure add_metadata can deal with _info = None (#3040) by @xmo-odoo
• Handle IndirectObject in CCITTFaxDecode filter (#2965) by @stefan6419846
• Handle chained colorspace for inline images when no filter is set (#3008) by @stefan6419846
• Avoid extracting inline images twice and dropping other operators (#3002) by @stefan6419846
• Fixed reference of value with str.__new__ in TextStringObject (#2952) by @thomas-forte
• Handle indirect objects in font width calculations (#2967) by @nsw42
• Title sometimes is bytes and not str (#2930) by @reformy
• Fix undefined variable for text extraction (regression) (#2934) by @stefan6419846
• Don't close stream passed to PdfWriter.write() (#2909) by @alexaryn

Robustness (ROB)

• Handle zero height fonts when extracting text (#3075) by @blushingpenguin
• Deal with content streams not containing streams (#3005) by @stefan6419846
• Gracefully handle some text operators when the operands are missing (#3006) by @stefan6419846
• Fall back to non-Adobe Ascii85 format for missing end markers (#3007) by @stefan6419846
• Ignore odd-length strings when processing cmap lines (#3009) by @stefan6419846
• Skip annotation destination being NullObject in PdfWriter (#2964) by @stefan6419846
• Skip destination page being None in PdfWriter (#2963) by @dxsooo
• Fix infinite loop case when reading null objects within an Array by @jakep-allenai
• Fixing infinite loop in ArrayObject read_from_stream (#2928) by @jakep-allenai

Documentation (DOC)

• Add note about default line colors (#3014) by @stefan6419846

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Remove ignoring Ruff rule PGH004 (#3071) by @j-t-1
• Tidy ignore array in tool.ruff.lint (#3069) by @j-t-1
• Move Windows CI to Python 3.13 (#3003) by @stefan6419846
• Move to Ubuntu 22.04 (#3004) by @stefan6419846

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Fix formatting of warning message and include exception message (#3076) by @stefan6419846
• Narrow return type for ContentStream.operations (#2941) by @kmurphy4

Testing (TST)

• Fix image similarity for upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 (#3039) by @stefan6419846
• Replace broken Apache Tika Corpora urls (#3041) by @stefan6419846

Code Style (STY)

• Add form feed to WHITESPACES (#3054) by @j-t-1
• Lots of small internal changes by @j-t-1

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