This was added so that CI goes down from about 14min 23s to about 9min 20s

Please note that i...

Closes #2233

Retrieve the user logins for all commits from the GitHub API to correctly attribute each user, w...

This reworks the docs on merging PDF files to quite some extent:

* Formatting: Make it consis...

## What's new

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Avoid exceeding recursion depth when retrieving image mode...

## What's new

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- invalid cm/tm in visitor functions (#2206) by @pubpub-zz
-...

Reworks and is still valid to close #2059

Closes #2200
Closes #2075

Full credit to sjoerdjob for this contribution via #1995

See #1788

Co-authored-by: Sjoerd ...

Closes #2236

Fixes #2240

Bumps [pillow](https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow) from 10.0.0 to 10.0.1.
- [Release notes...

There have been two issues with the existing test:

* The name was incorrect, as it never real...

Discovered while working on #2214

## What's new

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- PDF size increases because of too high float writing preci...

See #1910

address regression from #2203

This fixes the issue spotted in #2191

The solution was to re-introduce calls to `PageObject._...

See #2075

closes #2204

## What's new

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Missing new line in extract_text with cm operations (#2142...

Closes #2146

Closes #2138

Closes #2192

Add documentation and fix a method name as discussed in #2105

closes #2181

## What's new

### Security (SEC)
- Infinite recursion caused by IndirectObject clone (#2156)

...

Closes #2137

closes #2158
closes #2159

Closes #1903

closes #2147

If an object contains an indirect_reference which points to the object it self, cloning it will ...

This PR aims to improve reading complexity of the code by moving inner functions of `_xobj_to_im...

Fixes #2157

Closes #2166

Based on #2171, feels like pdfly has a bit of a discovery problem. Adding a link at the front of...

See https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/discussions/2171#discussioncomment-6956195

Closes #2165
Closes #2176

See #2144

Closes #2173

Closes #2105

## What's new

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Cope with missing /I in articles (#2134)
- Fix image look...

Closes #2089

This adds a test for the correct rendering of watermarked files.

Closes #2112

Closes #2124
Closes #2110

Tests which have `enable_socket` and a small timeout might fail because the download isn't finis...

This was originally added by stefan on #2130

This allows anyone to manually run the workflow ...

Dealing with a non-standard compliant PDF where the length is an IndirectObject that can not be ...

Some images could not be removed using remove_images. There is only one page in the pdf and the ...

See #2125

Closes #2125

Closes #2121

## What's new

### Performance Improvements (PI)
- Making pypdf as fast as pdfrw (#2086)

### M...

Closes #2122

Closes #2120

TypeAlias was added in 3.7.4.3

This makes pypdf_watermarking is as fast as pdfrw_watermarking().

What was done:

* Remove ...

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Check version of crypt provider (#2115)
- TypeError: can't concat str to...

Closes #2107

We often need a couple of package versions to investigate issues. This command gives us a one-li...

* #2108
* #2109

This was introduced when I removed seemingly unnecessary calls to b_,
a helper function that co...

Use the current version of Python 3.12 whether it is a pre-release or a production release as di...

## What's new

### Security (SEC)
- Avoid endless recursion of reading damaged PDF file (#2093)...

When we know the parameter is utf8-encodable and longer than two characters, pypdf doesn't need ...

While on it, pre-commit was also updated + several fixes for mypy.

Taken from https://github....

Trying to run the tests after `pip install -e '.[dev]'` results in:

ERROR tests/test_reader.p...

Fixes #140

Full credit to Lucas

Co-authored-by: "Cimon Lucas (LCM)" <[email protected]>

## What's new

### Performance Improvements (PI)
- optimize _decode_png_prediction (#2068)

###...