PyMuPDF-1.21.0 released

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PyMuPDF-1.21.0 has been released.

• This release uses MuPDF-1.21.0.

• New feature: Stories.

• Added wheels for Python-3.11.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed Regression in custom image insertion since 1.19.3 (maybe insert_image bug?) #1701
  • Fixed Document.delete_pages declines keyword arguments #1854
  • Fixed Access Violation Error #1868
  • Fixed adding text with fontname="Helvetica" can silently fail #1909
  • Fixed draw_rect: does not respect width if color is not specified, and possible doc issue #1913
  • Fixed subset_fonts: make it possible to silence the stdout #1917
  • Fixed Rectangle detection can be incorrect producing wrong output #1936
  • Fixed Segmentation fault (core dumped) #1945
  • Fixed pdfocr_save Pixmap_pdfocr_save Causes Hard Crash #1965
  • Fixed Segmentation fault when using get_drawings() #1971
  • Fixed block_no and block_type are switched in get_text("block")  #1946
  • Fixed AttributeError: 'Widget' object has no attribute '_annot' in delete widget #2013

• Misc changes to core code:

  • Fixed various compiler warnings and a sequence-point bug.
  • Added support for Memento builds.
  • Fixed leaks detected by Memento in test suite.
  • Fixed handling of exceptions in set_name() and set_rect().
  • Allow build with latest MuPDF, for regular testing of PyMuPDF master.
  • Cope with new MuPDF exceptions when setting rect for some Annot types.
  • Reduced cosmetic differences between MuPDF's config.h and PyMuPDF's _config.h.
  • Cope with various changes to MuPDF API.

• Other:

  • Fixed various broken links and typos in docs.
  • Mention install of swig-python on MacOS for Unable to install under M1 Macintosh mode (works in x86/rosetta 2 mode) #875.
  • Added (untested) wheels for macos-arm64.

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

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