v56.1

Bug fixes

• #1674: Follow max-height on footnot area, with financial support from Code & Co.
• #1678: Fix gradients with opacity set

Contributors

• Guillaume Ayoub
• Lucie Anglade

Backers and sponsors

• Grip Angebotssoftware
• Manuel Barkhau
• Crisp BV
• SimonSoft
• Menutech
• Spacinov
• KontextWork
• René Fritz
• NCC Group
• Kobalt
• Tom Pohl
• Moritz Mahringer
• Florian Demmer
• Yanal-Yvez Fargialla
• Gábor
• Piotr Horzycki
• Andrew Ittner

v56.0

This version also includes the changes from unstable b1 version listed below.

Read about this release on our blog.

New features

• 70f9b62: Support format 5 for bitmap glyphs

Bug fixes

• #1666: Fix reproducible PDF generation with embedded images
• #1668: Fix @page:nth() selector
• 3bd9a8e: Don’t limit the opacity groups to the original box size
• cb9540b, 76d174f, 9ce6547: Minor bugfixes for split table rows

Contributors

• Guillaume Ayoub

Backers and sponsors

• Grip Angebotssoftware
• Manuel Barkhau
• Crisp BV
• SimonSoft
• Menutech
• Spacinov
• KontextWork
• René Fritz
• NCC Group
• Kobalt
• Des images et des mots
• Andreas Zettl
• Tom Pohl
• Moritz Mahringer
• Florian Demmer
• Yanal-Yvez Fargialla
• Gábor
• Piotr Horzycki

v56.0b1

This version is experimental, don't use it in production. If you find bugs, please report them!

Read about this release on our blog.

Dependencies

• pydyf 0.2.0+ is now needed

Features

• #1660: Support nested line-clamp, with financial support from Expert Germany
• #1644, #1645: Support bitmap fonts, with financial support from Expert Germany
• #1651, #630: Support PDF/A, with financial support from Blueshoe

Bug fixes

• #1656: Fix chained variables in the same selector block
• #1028: Fix font weight management in @font-face rules
• #1653: Don’t crash when @font-face’s src ends with a comma
• #1650: Don’t check origin when URL only contains fragment
• e38bff8: Don’t crash when inherited SVG attributes are not set on the parent

Performance

• e6021da: Launch tests in parallel by default

Contributors

• Guillaume Ayoub
• aschmitz
• Lucie Anglade

Backers and sponsors

• Grip Angebotssoftware
• Manuel Barkhau
• Crisp BV
• SimonSoft
• Menutech
• Spacinov
• KontextWork
• René Fritz
• NCC Group
• Kobalt
• Des images et des mots
• Andreas Zettl
• Tom Pohl
• Moritz Mahringer
• Florian Demmer
• Yanal-Yvez Fargialla
• Gábor
• Piotr Horzycki

v55.0

This version also includes the changes from unstable b1 version listed below.

Read about this release on our blog.

Bug fixes

• #1626, 3802f88: Fix the vertical position and available height of absolute boxes
• 9641098, e5e6b88: Minor fixes for multi-column layout
• 0fcc7de: Don’t stop rendering SVG when CSS parsing fails
• #1636: Fix sequential footnotes that could disappear when overflowing
• #1637: Fix position of absolute boxes with right-to-left direction
• #1641: Fix relative paths for SVG files stored as data URLs

Contributors

• Guillaume Ayoub
• aschmitz

Backers and sponsors

• Grip Angebotssoftware
• Manuel Barkhau
• Crisp BV
• SimonSoft
• Menutech
• Spacinov
• KontextWork
• René Fritz
• NCC Group
• Kobalt
• Nathalie Gutton
• Andreas Zettl
• Tom Pohl
• Moritz Mahringer
• Florian Demmer
• Yanal-Yvez Fargialla
• Gábor
• Piotr Horzycki

v55.0b1

This version is experimental, don't use it in production. If you find bugs, please report them!

Read about this release on our blog.

Dependencies

• Python 3.7+ is now needed, Python 3.6 is not supported anymore

Features

• #1534: Support word-break: break-all
• #489, #1619: Support column breaks
• #1553: Allow reproducible PDF generation

Bug fixes

• #1007, #1524: Handle inherit in shorthand properties
• #1539, #1541: Space out no-repeat patterns
• #1554: Avoid invalid PDF operators when drawing SVG text
• #1564, #1566, #1570: Don’t output footnotes before their call sites
• #1020, #1597: Prevent infinite loops in multi-column layout
• #1512, #1613: Fix position of absolute boxes in right-to-left contexts
• #1093: Draw borders around absolute replaced boxes
• #984, #1604: Fix skip stacks for columns
• #1621: Better support of nested text-decoration properties
• fe1f3d9: Fix absolute blocks in lines
• 4650b70: Clear adjoining margins when a container’s child doesn’t fit

Performance

• #1548: Improve tests speed
• 3b0ae92, #1457: Improve fonts management
• #1597: Improve column layout speed
• #1587, #1607, #1608: Cache ch and ex units calculations

Contributors

• Guillaume Ayoub
• aschmitz
• Lucie Anglade
• Christoph Kepper
• Jack Lin
• Rian McGuire

Backers and sponsors

• Grip Angebotssoftware
• Manuel Barkhau
• Crisp BV
• SimonSoft
• Menutech
• KontextWork
• Maykin Media
• René Fritz
• NCC Group
• Spacinov
• Nathalie Gutton
• Andreas Zettl
• Tom Pohl
• Kobalt
• Moritz Mahringer
• Florian Demmer
• Yanal-Yvez Fargialla
• Gábor
• Piotr Horzycki
• DeivGuerrero

v54.3

Bug fixes

• #1588 Support position: absolute in footnotes
• #1586 Fix discarded text-align values

Contributors

• aschmitz
• Guillaume Ayoub

Backers and sponsors

• Grip Angebotssoftware
• Manuel Barkhau
• Crisp BV
• SimonSoft
• Menutech
• KontextWork
• Maykin Media
• René Fritz
• NCC Group
• Spacinov
• Nathalie Gutton
• Andreas Zettl
• Tom Pohl
• Kobalt
• Moritz Mahringer
• Florian Demmer
• Yanal-Yvez Fargialla
• Gábor
• Piotr Horzycki
• DeivGuerrero

v54.2

Bug fixes

• #1575: Always store parent blocks children as lists
• #1574, #1559: Fix float rounding errors
• #1571: Ignore unknown glyphs
• #1561, #1562: Fix line break when breaks occur between a nbsp and an inline block
• #1560: Always set the child index
• #1558: Fix patterns with use tags

Contributors

• Guillaume Ayoub
• Lucie Anglade
• Jack Lin
• aschmitz

Backers and sponsors

• Grip Angebotssoftware
• Manuel Barkhau
• Crisp BV
• SimonSoft
• Menutech
• KontextWork
• Maykin Media
• René Fritz
• NCC Group
• Spacinov
• Nathalie Gutton
• Andreas Zettl
• Tom Pohl
• Kobalt
• Moritz Mahringer
• Florian Demmer
• Yanal-Yvez Fargialla
• Gábor
• Piotr Horzycki
• DeivGuerrero

v54.1

Features

• #1547: Handle break-inside: avoid on tr tags

Bug fixes

• #1540, #1239: Handle absolute children in running elements
• #1538: Handle invalid values in text-align
• #1536: Handle absolute flex boxes

v54.0

This version also includes the changes from unstable v54.0b1.

Bug fixes

• #1531 Always use absolute paths to get hrefs in SVG
• #1523 Fix many rendering problems of broken tables
• e1aee70 Fix support of fonts with SVG emojis

Read more on CourtBouillon’s blog.

v54.0b1

This version is experimental, don't use it in production. If you find bugs, please report them!

Read about this release on our blog.

Dependencies

• html5lib 1.1+ is now needed.

New features

• #1509: Support footnotes, with financial support from Code & Co.
• #36: Handle parallel flows for floats, absolutes, table-cells
• #1389: Support text-align-last and text-align-all properties
• #1434: Draw SVG and PNG emojis
• #1520: Support overflow-wrap: anywhere
• #1435: Add environment variable to set DLL folder on Windows

Performance

• #1439: Cache SVG use tags
• #1481: Encode non-JPEG images as PNGs instead of JPEG2000s

Bug fixes

• #137: Don’t use text-transform text for content-based uses
• #1443: Don’t serialize and parse again inline SVG files
• #607: Correctly handle whitespaces in bookmark labels
• #1094: Fix column height with column-span content
• #1473: Fix absolutely positioned boxes in duplicated pages
• #1491: Fix target-counter attribute in flex items
• #1515, #1508: Don’t draw empty glyphs
• #1499: Don’t crash when font size is really small

Documentation

• #1519: Fix typo

Packaging

• The source package does not include a setup.py file anymore. You can find more information about this in #1410.

Contirbutors

• Guillaume Ayoub
• Lucie Anglade
• Colin Kinloch
• aschmitz
• Pablo González
• Rian McGuire

Backers and sponsors

• Grip Angebotssoftware
• Manuel Barkhau
• SimonSoft
• Menutech
• KontextWork
• Crisp BV
• Maykin Media
• René Fritz
• Simon Sapin
• NCC Group
• Nathalie Gutton
• Andreas Zettl
• Tom Pohl
• Des images et des mots
• Moritz Mahringer
• Florian Demmer
• Yanal-Yvez Fargialla
• Gábor
• Piotr Horzycki