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_numberPyPDF2.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
Full Changelog: 2.2.1...2.3.0