What's Changed

• Pylint fixes by @cclauss in #773
• pre-commit autoupdate 2024-07-24 by @cclauss in #774
• GitHub Actions: Add Python 3.13 beta 4 to the testing by @cclauss in #775
• Tidy up documentation by @kytta in #729
• Keep GitHub Actions up to date with GitHub's Dependabot by @cclauss in #772
• fix reDOS CVE in getColor function by @Trupal00p in #784
• Reuse background PDF file over multiple pages (#778) by @sjoerdjob in #779
• Update import for breaking changes in python-bidi 0.5.0 by @bengosney in #767
• Add support of base64 fonts by @vladimir-g in #740
• tests: skip cases that download artifacts when http_proxy is set by @adrien-n in #793
• Typos workflow by @mikemanger in #795

New Contributors

• @kytta made their first contribution in #729
• @Trupal00p made their first contribution in #784
• @sjoerdjob made their first contribution in #779
• @bengosney made their first contribution in #767
• @vladimir-g made their first contribution in #740
• @adrien-n made their first contribution in #793
• @mikemanger made their first contribution in #795

Full Changelog: v0.2.16...v0.2.17

🐛 Bug-Fixes

• [ #751 ] Add compatibility for reportlab >= 4.1

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release:
@stefan6419846

🐛 Bug fixes

• [ #731 ] Fix TypeError on column widths specified as percentages
• [ #730 ] Fix TypeError when formatting width in debug logging

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release:
@JanEgner @timobrembeck

🐛 Bug fixes

• [ #106 ] Fix page number & page count
• [ #723 ] Fix ZeroDivisionError on broken image files

📘 Documentation

• [ #707 ] Update README
• [ #711 ] Modernize Sphinx configuration

🧹 Cleanup

• [ #700 ] Change print statement to log.exception
• [ #706 ] Remove Python2 compatibility
• [ #705 ] Depend on html5lib >= 1.1
• [ #699 ] Depend on reportlab >= 4.0.4
• [ #714 ] Use black code style
• [ #715 ] Enforce consistent file formatting
• [ #716 ] Add ruff code linter
• [ #717 ] Start using type hints & validate them via mypy
• [ #718 ] Drop support for Python 3.7 (reached end of life on 2023-06-27)
• [ #719 ] Add support for Python 3.12 (released on 2023-10-02)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release:
@JanEgner @lucasgadams @a-detiste @holtwick @stefan6419846 @timobrembeck

This release only aims to fix issues with pycairo and xhtml2pdf dependencies with reportlab.

This is a bug fixes release changes here:

• Fix canvas graph
• Remove duplicate pypdf entry from setup.py

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
@brandonlake-semaphore, @sunpoet

Released: 2023-01-30

Important notes

• Text RTL has new implementation but I am not sure if works as required, more works need so use it, for text and let me know if it's works.

🎉 New

• OL tag allow start counter
• Div, P, And Body allows dir attribute (rtl and ltr) to provide text direction

💪🏼 Improvements

• Page counter and Page number are now available as simple text inside paragraphs
• New regex for strip up to curly bracket
• Change pyPDF3 to pypdf.

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:

@BergLucas, @matllubos, @timoludwig, @MartinThoma, @charludo, @jorenham

🐛 Bug-Fixes

• Fix background-image issues with #614 and pull requests with #619
• Fix CSSParseError for minified @font-face definitions #609
• Fixed a few typos and grammar mistakes in usage.rst documentation. #610

🎉 New

• Add encryption and password protection
• New WaterMark management system with new options
• Add Graphic builder
• Add signing pdfs (simple and pades)

🐛 Bug-Fixes

• Remove import cycle between utils and default
• Fixed link_callback construction of path
• Fixed path when is relative to current path

⚠️ Deprecation

• xhtml in pisa.CreatePDF support will removed on next release
• XML2PDF and XHTML2PDF will be removed on next release use HTML2PDF instead

📘 Documentation

• Add render pdf on documentation and add some html example.
• Include graphics examples

| Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
| @marcelagz for graphics support :)

• Drop python 2 support.
• Remove most of python 2 code and cleanup
• Update packages dependencies
• Remove six dependency and update Readme
• Set timeout in https options
• Add new file manager approach using factory method, now new classes deal with different types of data
  B64InlineURI, LocalProtocolURI, NetworkFileUri, LocalFileURI, BytesFileUri
• Now getColor return None when None is passed ignoring default value, but return default if bool(data) == false
• rtl languages reversed lines added as a ParaFrag (note: not fully supported yet)
• Check if Paragraph has 'rtl' attribute (note: not fully supported yet)
• Fix UnboundLocalError in reportlab_paragraph (#585) (#586)
• Remove usage of getStringIO (#590) removed form reportlab
• Change test for github workflow using only Linux
• Add Python 3.9, 3.10
• Switch from PyPDF2 to PyPDF3
• Add SVG support
• Update package information.
• Allow call tests using make.