Version 7.1.0, 2026-11-13

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

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