Version 1.27.7, 2022-04-19

Bug Fixes (BUG):
- Import exceptions from PyPDF2.errors in PyPDF2.utils (py-pdf#780)

Code Style (STY):
-  Naming in 'make_changelog.py'

Version 1.27.6, 2022-04-18

Deprecations (DEP):
-  Remove support for Python 2.6 and older (py-pdf#776)

New Features (ENH):
-  Extract document permissions (py-pdf#320)

Bug Fixes (BUG):
-  Clip by trimBox when merging pages, which would otherwise be ignored (py-pdf#240)
-  Add overwriteWarnings parameter PdfFileMerger (py-pdf#243)
-  IndexError for getPage() of decryped file (py-pdf#359)
-  Handle cases where decodeParms is an ArrayObject (py-pdf#405)
-  Updated PDF fields don't show up when page is written (py-pdf#412)
-  Set Linked Form Value (py-pdf#414)
-  Fix zlib -5 error for corrupt files (py-pdf#603)
-  Fix reading more than last1K for EOF (py-pdf#642)
-  Acciental import

Robustness (ROB):
-  Allow extra whitespace before "obj" in readObjectHeader (py-pdf#567)

Documentation (DOC):
-  Link to pdftoc in Sample_Code (py-pdf#628)
-  Working with annotations (py-pdf#764)
-  Structure history

Developer Experience (DEV):
-  Add issue templates (py-pdf#765)
-  Add tool to generate changelog

Maintenance (MAINT):
-  Use grouped constants instead of string literals (py-pdf#745)
-  Add error module (py-pdf#768)
-  Use decorators for @staticmethod (py-pdf#775)
-  Split long functions (py-pdf#777)

Testing (TST):
-  Run tests in CI once with -OO Flags (py-pdf#770)
-  Filling out forms (py-pdf#771)
-  Add tests for Writer (py-pdf#772)
-  Error cases (py-pdf#773)
-  Check Error messages (py-pdf#769)
-  Regression test for issue py-pdf#88
-  Regression test for issue py-pdf#327

Code Style (STY):
-  Make variable naming more consistent in tests

All changes: py-pdf/pypdf@1.27.5...1.27.6

Version 1.27.5, 2022-04-15

Security (SEC):

- ContentStream_readInlineImage had potential infinite loop (py-pdf#740)

Bug fixes (BUG):

- Fix merging encrypted files (py-pdf#757)
- CCITTFaxDecode decodeParms can be an ArrayObject (py-pdf#756)

Robustness improvements (ROBUST):

- title sometimes None (py-pdf#744)

Documentation (DOC):

- Adjust short description of the package

Tests and Test setup (TST):

- Rewrite JS tests from unittest to pytest (py-pdf#746)
- Increase Test coverage, mainly with filters (py-pdf#756)
- Add test for inline images (py-pdf#758)

Developer Experience Improvements (DEV):

- Remove unused Travis-CI configuration (py-pdf#747)
- Show code coverage (py-pdf#754, py-pdf#755)
- Add mutmut (py-pdf#760)

Miscellaneous:

- STY: Closing file handles, explicit exports, ... (py-pdf#743)

All changes: py-pdf/pypdf@1.27.4...1.27.5

Version 1.27.4, 2022-04-12

Bug fixes (BUG):

- Guard formatting of __init__.__doc__ string (py-pdf#738)

Packaging (PKG):

- Add more precise license field to setup (py-pdf#733)

Testing (TST):

- Add test for issue py-pdf#297

Miscellaneous:

- DOC: Miscallenious ➔ Miscellaneous (Typo)
- TST: Fix CI triggering (master ➔ main) (py-pdf#739)
- STY: Fix various style issues (py-pdf#742)

1.27.3

- PKG: Make Tests not a subpackage (py-pdf#728)
- BUG: Fix ASCII85Decode.decode assertion (py-pdf#729)
- BUG: Error in Chinese character encoding (py-pdf#463)
- BUG: Code duplication in Scripts/2-up.py
- ROBUST: Guard 'obj.writeToStream' with 'if obj is not None'
- ROBUST: Ignore a /Prev entry with the value 0 in the trailer
- MAINT: Remove Sample_Code (py-pdf#726)
- TST: Close file handle in test_writer (py-pdf#722)
- TST: Fix test_get_images (py-pdf#730)
- DEV: Make tox use pytest and add more Python versions (py-pdf#721)
- DOC: Many (py-pdf#720, py-pdf#723-725, py-pdf#469)

1.27.2

- Add Scripts (including `pdfcat`), Resources, Tests, and Sample_Code back to
  PyPDF2. It was removed by accident in 1.27.0, but might get removed with 2.0.0
  See py-pdf#718 for discussion

1.27.0

Features:

 - Add alpha channel support for png files in Script (py-pdf#614)

Bug fixes (BUG):

 - Fix formatWarning for filename without slash (py-pdf#612)
 - Add whitespace between words for extractText() (py-pdf#569, py-pdf#334)
 - "invalid escape sequence" SyntaxError (py-pdf#522)
 - Avoid error when printing warning in pythonw (py-pdf#486)
 - Stream operations can be List or Dict (py-pdf#665)

Documentation (DOC):

 - Added Scripts/pdf-image-extractor.py
 - Documentation improvements (py-pdf#550, py-pdf#538, py-pdf#324, py-pdf#426, py-pdf#394)

Tests and Test setup (TST):

 - Add Github Action which automatically run unit tests via pytest and
   static code analysis with Flake8 (py-pdf#660)
 - Add several unit tests (py-pdf#661, py-pdf#663)
 - Add .coveragerc to create coverage reports

Developer Experience Improvements (DEV):

 - Pre commit: Developers can now `pre-commit install` to avoid tiny issues
               like trailing whitespaces

Miscallenious:

 - Add the LICENSE file to the distributed packages (py-pdf#288)
 - Use setuptools instead of distutils (py-pdf#599)
 - Improvements for the PyPI page (py-pdf#644)
 - Python 3 changes (py-pdf#504, py-pdf#366)

You can see the full changelog at: py-pdf/pypdf@1.26.0...1.27.0

Version 1.26.0 update

Conform to semantic versioning. Patch number added