Version 4.2.0, 2024-04-07

What's new

New Features (ENH)

• Allow multiple charsets for NameObject.read_from_stream (#2585) by @pubpub-zz
• Add support for /Kids in page labels (#2562) by @stefan6419846
• Allow to update fields on many pages (#2571) by @pubpub-zz
• Tolerate PDF with invalid xref pointed objects (#2335) by @pubpub-zz
• Add Enforce from PDF2.0 in viewer_preferences (#2511) by @pubpub-zz
• Add += and -= operators to ArrayObject (#2510) by @pubpub-zz

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Fix merge_page sometimes generating unknown operator 'QQ' (#2588) by @rfotino
• Fix fields update where annotations are kids of field (#2570) by @pubpub-zz
• Process CMYK images without a filter correctly (#2557) by @pubpub-zz
• Extract text in layout mode without finding resources (#2555) by @pubpub-zz
• Prevent recursive loop in some PDF files (#2505) by @pubpub-zz

Robustness (ROB)

• Tolerate "truncated" xref (#2580) by @pubpub-zz
• Replace error by warning for EOD in RunLengthDecode/ASCIIHexDecode (#2334) by @pubpub-zz
• Rebuild xref table if one entry is invalid (#2528) by @pubpub-zz
• Robustify stream extraction (#2526) by @pubpub-zz

Documentation (DOC)

• Update release process for latest changes (#2564) by @stefan6419846
• Encryption/decryption: Clone document instead of copying all pages (#2546) by @redfast00
• Minor improvements (#2542) by @j-t-1
• Update annotation list (#2534) by @j-t-1
• Update references and formatting (#2529) by @j-t-1
• Correct threads reference, plus minor changes (#2521) by @j-t-1
• Minor readability increases (#2515) by @j-t-1
• Simplify PaperSize examples (#2504) by @j-t-1
• Minor improvements (#2501) by @j-t-1

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Remove unused dependencies (#2572) by @stefan6419846
• Remove page labels PR link from message (#2561) by @stefan6419846
• Fix changelog generator regarding whitespace and handling of "Other" group (#2492) by @stefan6419846
• Add REL to known PR prefixes (#2554) by @stefan6419846
• Release using the REL commit instead of git tag (#2500) by @MartinThoma
• Unify code between PdfReader and PdfWriter (#2497) by @pubpub-zz
• Bump softprops/action-gh-release from 1 to 2 (#2514) by @dependabot[bot]

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Ressources → Resources (and internal name childs) (#2550) by @pubpub-zz
• Fix typos found by codespell (#2549) by @stefan6419846
• Update Read the Docs configuration (#2538) by @j-t-1
• Add root_object, _info and _ID to PdfReader (#2495) by @pubpub-zz

Testing (TST)

• Allow loading truncated images if required (#2586) by @stefan6419846
• Fix download issues from #2562 (#2578) by @pubpub-zz
• Improve test_get_contents_from_nullobject to show real use-case (#2524) by @stefan6419846
• Add missing test annotations (#2507) by @stefan6419846

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