v1.2.1

[1.2.1] - 2026-10-23

Security

• ContextGem now requires certifi 2026.10.19 or later. Earlier versions trust the emSign root of eMudhra, whose intermediate certificate authorities were compromised (GHSA-6q48-6c7w-9gw2), and litellm verifies the connections to the model providers, as huggingface_hub does the downloads of SaT models, against the root certificates of certifi, unless SSL_CERT_FILE names others: with an older certifi, a forged certificate is accepted, e.g. to read the API key that a request sends. An environment keeps its installed certifi until a package requires a newer one, so upgrading ContextGem now upgrades it.
• ContextGem now allows Pillow 13 (pillow>=11.3.0,<14.0.0), which fixes the 39 advisories of Pillow 12.3.0, 4 of them critical, e.g. a heap buffer overflow when a JPEG image is decoded. Pillow was capped below 13, as the packages of Docling were, so that ContextGem installs only with the Pillow versions that its tests run on: the tests now run on Pillow 13, with Docling 2.142.0, the first release of Docling that allows it.

Known issues

• With docling-core 2.104.0, the first version that allows Pillow 13 (above), an HTML block in a Markdown file converted with Docling, e.g. a <table>, comes out as its markup: Document.from_docling() gives one paragraph of the HTML text, where it gave the text of the block, e.g. a table header and a paragraph for each row. Docling passes an HTML block through a code block, whose text docling-core now escapes (docling-project/docling-core#894). Markdown files without HTML blocks are not affected. The issue is reported to Docling (docling-project/docling#4982). Document.from_docling() gives what Docling reads: upgrading to a release of Docling that reads the HTML blocks as before brings back the earlier paragraphs, without a new release of ContextGem.