PyMuPDF 1.23.9

PyMuPDF-1.23.9 released

on Python PyPI

PyMuPDF-1.23.9 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

[Linux-aarch64 wheels are not available yet, they will be build and uploaded later.]

Changes in version 1.23.9 (2024-01-11)

• Default to new "rebased" implementation.

  • The old "classic" implementation is available with import fitz_old as fitz.
  • For more information about why we are changing to the rebased implementation,
    see: #2680

• Use MuPDF-1.23.9.

• Bug fixes (rebased implementation only):

  • Fixed #2911
  • Fixed #2919
  • Fixed #2922
  • Fixed #2943
  • Fixed #2950
  • Fixed #2954
  • Fixed #2957
  • Fixed #2961
  • Fixed #2969
  • Fixed #2978

• Other:

  • Add optional setting of opacity to Page.insert_htmlbox().
  • Fixed issue with add_redact_annot() mentioned in #2934.
  • Fixed Page.rotation() to return 0 for non-PDF documents instead of raising an exception.
  • Fixed internal quad detection to cope with any Python sequence.
  • Fixed rebased fitz.pymupdf_version_tuple - was previously set to mupdf version.
  • Improved support for Linux system installs, including adding regular testing on Github.
  • Add missing flake8 to scripts/gh_release.py:test_packages.
  • Use newly public functions in MuPDF-1.23.8.
  • Improved scripts/test.py to help investigation of MuPDF issues.