Version 5.0.1, 2024-09-29

Version 5.0.1, 2024-09-29

New Features (ENH)

• Add full parameter to PdfWriter constructor (py-pdf#2865)

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Update pyproject.toml with minimum Python version of 3.8 (py-pdf#2859)
• Cope with unbalanced delimiters in dictionary object (py-pdf#2878)
• Cope with encoding with too many differences (py-pdf#2873)
• Missing spaces in extract_text() method (py-pdf#1328) (py-pdf#2868)
• Tolerate truncated files and no warning when jumping startxref (py-pdf#2855)

Robustness (ROB)

• Repair PDF with invalid Root object (py-pdf#2880)
• Continue parsing dictionary object when error is detected (py-pdf#2872)
• Merge documents with invalid pages in named destinations (py-pdf#2857)
• Tolerate comments in arrays (py-pdf#2856)

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Use latest Python version for benchmarking (py-pdf#2879)

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Add tests to source distributions (py-pdf#2874)
• Refactor _update_field_annotation (py-pdf#2862)

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