What's new
Deprecations (DEP)
- Deprecate passing a boolean to remove_images (#4412) by @MartinThoma
- Make add_outline_item keyword-only (#4401) by @MartinThoma
New Features (ENH)
- Scale a soft mask to the size of its image (#4391) by @Pixeless001
Performance Improvements (PI)
- Do not decode streams to find identical objects (#4424) by @MartinThoma
- Speed up the pure-Python RC4 used without a crypto library (#4396) by @deadstrobe5
- Skip per-character direction checks for left-to-right text in extract_text() (#4395) by @deadstrobe5