PyMuPDF-1.24.3 released

[julian-smith-artifex-com]

PyMuPDF-1.24.3 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

[Linux-aarch64 wheels will be built and uploaded later.]

Changes in version 1.24.3 (2024-05-09)

• The Python module is now called pymupdf. fitz is still supported for
  backwards compatibility.

• Use MuPDF-1.24.2.

• Fixed issues:

  • Fixed PyMuPDF==1.24.0 will hanging when using page.get_text("text") #3357
  • Fixed Redacting results are not as expected in 1.24.x. #3376
  • Fixed Documentation mismatch for get_text_blocks return value order #3379
  • Fixed Contents stream contains floats in scientific notation #3381
  • Fixed Cannot add Widgets containing inter-field-calculation JavaScript #3402
  • Fixed missing attribute set_dpi() #3414
  • Fixed page.get_text() cause process freeze with certain pdf on v1.24.2 #3430

• Other:

  • New/modified methods:

    • Page.remove_rotation(): new, set page rotation to zero while keeping appearance.

  • Fixed some problems when checking for PDF properties.

  • Fixed pip builds from sdist
    (see discussion Alpine linux docker build failing "No matching distribution found for pymupdfb==1.24.1" #3360).

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This discussion was created from the release PyMuPDF-1.24.3 released.

[julian-smith-artifex-com]

Linux-aarch64 wheels are now available; install in the usual way with pip.