Release history

0.2.0

Release date: 2021-01-10

New features and enhancements

Signing

  • Allow the caller to specify an output stream when signing.

Validation

  • The incremental update analysis functionality has been heavily refactored into something more rule-based and modular. The new difference analysis system is also much more user-configurable, and a (sufficiently motivated) library user could even plug in their own implementation.

  • The new validation system treats /Metadata updates more correctly, and fixes a number of other minor stability problems.

  • Improved validation logging and status reporting mechanisms.

  • Improved seed value constraint enforcement support: this includes added support for /V, /MDP, /LockDocument, /KeyUsage and (passive) support for /AppearanceFilter and /LegalAttestation.

CLI

  • You can now specify negative page numbers on the command line to refer to the pages of a document in reverse order.

General PDF API

  • Added convenience functions to retrieve references from dictionaries and arrays.

  • Tweaked handling of object freeing operations; these now produce PDF null objects instead of (Python) None.

Bugs fixed

  • root_ref now consistently returns a Reference object

  • Corrected wrong usage of @freeze_time in tests that caused some failures due to certificate expiry issues.

  • Fixed a gnarly caching bug in HistoricalResolver that sometimes leaked state from later revisions into older ones.

  • Prevented cross-reference stream updates from accidentally being saved with the same settings as their predecessor in the file. This was a problem when updating files generated by other PDF processing software.

0.1.0

Release date: 2020-12-30

Initial release.