Version 1.27.6, 2022-04-18

What changed

Deprecations (DEP)

• Remove support for Python 2.6 and older (#776)

New Features (ENH)

• Extract document permissions (#320)

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Clip by trimBox when merging pages, which would otherwise be ignored (#240)
• Add overwriteWarnings parameter PdfFileMerger (#243)
• IndexError for getPage() of decryped file (#359)
• Handle cases where decodeParms is an ArrayObject (#405)
• Updated PDF fields don't show up when page is written (#412)
• Set Linked Form Value (#414)
• Fix zlib -5 error for corrupt files (#603)
• Fix reading more than last1K for EOF (#642)
• Acciental import

Robustness (ROB)

• Allow extra whitespace before "obj" in readObjectHeader (#567)

Documentation (DOC)

• Link to pdftoc in Sample_Code (#628)
• Working with annotations (#764)
• Structure history

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Add issue templates (#765)
• Add tool to generate changelog

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Use grouped constants instead of string literals (#745)
• Add error module (#768)
• Use decorators for @staticmethod (#775)
• Split long functions (#777)

Testing (TST)

• Run tests in CI once with -OO Flags (#770)
• Filling out forms (#771)
• Add tests for Writer (#772)
• Error cases (#773)
• Check Error messages (#769)
• Regression test for issue #88
• Regression test for issue #327

Code Style (STY)

• Make variable naming more consistent in tests

New Contributors

• @denis-osipov made their first contribution in #359
• @malthejorgensen made their first contribution in #567
• @forrestv made their first contribution in #240
• @andrecp made their first contribution in #243
• @jc275 made their first contribution in #405
• @rltpoa made their first contribution in #642
• @vb64 made their first contribution in #628
• @thijsbrouwers made their first contribution in #603
• @malvidin made their first contribution in #414
• @mwhit74 made their first contribution in #412

Full Changelog: 1.27.5...1.27.6