PyMuPDF 1.23.9rc1 release candidate

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PyMuPDF-1.23.9rc1 release candidate is available.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed with:

python -m pip install pymupdf==1.23.9rc1

[Linux-aarch64 wheels are not available.]

Changes in version 1.23.9rc1 (2024-01-02)

• 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

• 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

• Other:

  • Fixed issue with add_redact_annot() mentioned in how to build pyodide's pymupdf #2934.
  • Fixed rebased fitz.pymupdf_version_tuple - was previously set to mupdf version.
  • Improved scripts/test.py to help investigation of MuPDF issues.
  • 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.

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