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From: Martin Thoma <info@martin-thoma.de>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:32:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] REL: 1.27.9
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A change I would like to highlight is the performance improvement for
large PDF files (#808) 🎉

New Features (ENH):
-  Add papersizes (#800)
-  Allow setting permission flags when encrypting (#803)
-  Allow setting form field flags (#802)

Bug Fixes (BUG):
-  TypeError in xmp._converter_date (#813)
-  Improve spacing for text extraction (#806)
-  Fix PDFDocEncoding Character Set (#809)

Robustness (ROB):
-  Use null ID when encrypted but no ID given (#812)
-  Handle recursion error (#804)

Documentation (DOC):
-  CMaps (#811)
-  The PDF Format + commit prefixes (#810)
-  Add compression example (#792)

Developer Experience (DEV):
-  Add Benchmark for Performance Testing (#781)

Maintenance (MAINT):
-  Validate PDF magic byte in strict mode (#814)
-  Make PdfFileMerger.addBookmark() behave life PdfFileWriters\' (#339)
-  Quadratic runtime while parsing reduced to linear  (#808)

Testing (TST):
-  Newlines in text extraction (#807)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2/compare/1.27.8...1.27.9
---
 CHANGELOG          | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 PyPDF2/_version.py |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 918df4533c..be7d233619 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,41 @@
+Version 1.27.9, 2022-04-24
+--------------------------
+
+A change I would like to highlight is the performance improvement for
+large PDF files (#808) 🎉
+
+New Features (ENH):
+-  Add papersizes (#800)
+-  Allow setting permission flags when encrypting (#803)
+-  Allow setting form field flags (#802)
+
+Bug Fixes (BUG):
+-  TypeError in xmp._converter_date (#813)
+-  Improve spacing for text extraction (#806)
+-  Fix PDFDocEncoding Character Set (#809)
+
+Robustness (ROB):
+-  Use null ID when encrypted but no ID given (#812)
+-  Handle recursion error (#804)
+
+Documentation (DOC):
+-  CMaps (#811)
+-  The PDF Format + commit prefixes (#810)
+-  Add compression example (#792)
+
+Developer Experience (DEV):
+-  Add Benchmark for Performance Testing (#781)
+
+Maintenance (MAINT):
+-  Validate PDF magic byte in strict mode (#814)
+-  Make PdfFileMerger.addBookmark() behave life PdfFileWriters\' (#339)
+-  Quadratic runtime while parsing reduced to linear  (#808)
+
+Testing (TST):
+-  Newlines in text extraction (#807)
+
+Full Changelog: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2/compare/1.27.8...1.27.9
+
 Version 1.27.8, 2022-04-21
 --------------------------
 
diff --git a/PyPDF2/_version.py b/PyPDF2/_version.py
index 69a09fb4ae..f820ab3260 100644
--- a/PyPDF2/_version.py
+++ b/PyPDF2/_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "1.27.8"
+__version__ = "1.27.9"