PyMuPDF-1.23.9 released

[julian-smith-artifex-com]

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: New 'rebased' implementation of PyMuPDF #2680

• Use MuPDF-1.23.9.

• Bug fixes (rebased implementation only):

  • Fixed Page.derotation_matrix returns a tuple instead of a Matrix with rebased implementation #2911
  • Fixed Rebased version: KeyError in resolve_names when merging pdfs  #2919
  • Fixed New feature that allows inserting named-destination links doesn't work #2922
  • Fixed ZeroDivisionError: float division by zero when use apply_redactions() #2943
  • Fixed Shelling out to pip during tests is problematic #2950
  • Fixed Replacement unicode character in text extraction #2954
  • Fixed apply_redactions() moving text #2957
  • Fixed Passing a string as a page number raises IndexError instead of TypeError. #2961
  • Fixed annot.next throws AttributeError #2969
  • Fixed 1.23.9rc1: module 'fitz.mupdf' has no attribute 'fz_copy_pixmap_rect' #2978

• Other:

  • Add optional setting of opacity to Page.insert_htmlbox().
  • Fixed issue with add_redact_annot() mentioned in how to build pyodide's pymupdf #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.

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This discussion was created from the release PyMuPDF-1.23.9 released.

[julian-smith-artifex-com]

1.23.9 also fixes three other issues, which have always worked in the rebased implementation:

• Fixed segfault trying to call clean_contents on certain pdfs with python 3.12 #2907
• Fixed SystemError: <built-in function TextPage_extractIMGINFO> returned a result with an exception set #2905
• Fixed Segmentation Fault when inserting three (but not two) copies of the same source page into one destination page #2742

[julian-smith-artifex-com]

Linux-aarch64 wheels are now available; install in the usual way with pip.