• Fixed Python API ignoring the language parameter, always defaulting to
  eng. The API now correctly maps language to OcrOptions languages
  and splits +-separated codes (e.g. eng+deu) to match CLI behavior.
  {issue}1640
• Fixed Python API producing empty OCR output because tesseract_timeout
  defaulted to 0, causing Tesseract to time out immediately. The default is
  now None, falling back to the plugin's 180-second timeout. {issue}1636
• Fixed OCR text layer displacement on PDFs with non-zero MediaBox origins
  (e.g. JSTOR or cropped PDFs). The coordinate transformation matrix is now
  always computed, not skipped when rotation is zero. {issue}1630
• Restored image overlay support (--image) for the hocrtransform tool,
  enabling sandwich PDF output with the fpdf2 renderer. {issue}1634
• Docker: updated Alpine base image to 3.23.
• Documentation restructured into per-major-version release notes files.
• Release process improvements.