REL: 6.2.0

## What's new

### New Features (ENH)
- Add 'strict' parameter to PDFWriter (#3503) by @Arya-A-Nair

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- PdfWriter.append fails when there are articles being None (#3509) by @Noah-Houghton

### Documentation (DOC)
- Execute docs examples in CI (#3507) by @ievgen-kapinos

[Full Changelog](6.1.3...6.2.0)

REL: 6.1.3

## What's new

### Security (SEC)
- Allow limiting size of LZWDecode streams (#3502) by @stefan6419846
- Avoid infinite loop when reading broken DCT-based inline images (#3501) by @stefan6419846

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- PageObject.scale() scales media box incorrectly (#3489) by @Nid01

### Robustness (ROB)
- Fail with explicit exception when image mode is an empty array (#3500) by @stefan6419846

[Full Changelog](6.1.2...6.1.3)

REL: 6.1.2

## What's new

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Fix handling of zero-length StreamObject (#3485) by @Likend

### Robustness (ROB)
- Deal with wrong size for incremental PDF files (#3495) by @stefan6419846
- Improve handling for malformed cross-reference tables (#3483) by @stefan6419846

### Developer Experience (DEV)
- Use released Python 3.14 by @stefan6419846
- Use Mapping instead of dict in type hint of update_page_form_field_values (#3490) by @stefan6419846

[Full Changelog](6.1.1...6.1.2)

REL: 6.1.1

## What's new

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Insert new embedded files in a sorted manner (#3477) by @stefan6419846
- Fix name tree handling for embedded files with Kids-based inputs (#3475) by @stefan6419846
- Make embedding files not break PDF/A-3 compliance (#3472) by @stefan6419846

### Documentation (DOC)
- Document AFRelationship handling for PDF/A and provide constants (#3478) by @stefan6419846

[Full Changelog](6.1.0...6.1.1)

REL: 6.1.0

## What's new

### New Features (ENH)
- Enhance XMP metadata handling with creation and setter methods (#3410) by @Arya-A-Nair
- Add all font metrics for base 14 Type 1 PDF fonts (#3363) by @PJBrs
- Allow deleting embedded files (#3461) by @stefan6419846
- Add support for Python in FIPS mode for document identifier (#3438) by @xnox

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Fix handling of UTF-16 encoded destination titles (#3463) by @stefan6419846
- Guard empty input to prevent IndexError (#3448) by @KyleJung0828

### Developer Experience (DEV)
- Fix type hint for XMP metadata setter to add bytes type (#3464) by @stefan6419846

[Full Changelog](6.0.0...6.1.0)

REL: 6.0.0

## What's new

### Security (SEC)
- Limit decompressed size for FlateDecode filter (#3430) by @stefan6419846

### Deprecations (DEP)
- Drop Python 3.8 support (#3412) by @stefan6419846

### New Features (ENH)
- Move BlackIs1 functionality to tiff_header (#3421) by @j-t-1

### Robustness (ROB)
- Skip Go-To actions without a destination (#3420) by @badGarnet

### Developer Experience (DEV)
- Update code style related libraries (#3414) by @stefan6419846
- Update mypy to 1.17.0 (#3413) by @stefan6419846
- Stop testing on Python 3.8 and start testing on Python 3.14 (#3411) by @stefan6419846

### Maintenance (MAINT)
- Cleanup deprecations (#3424) by @stefan6419846

[Full Changelog](5.9.0...6.0.0)

REL: 5.9.0

## What's new

### New Features (ENH)
- Automatically preserve links in added pages (#3298) by @larsga
- Allow writing/updating all properties of an embedded file (#3374) by @Arya-A-Nair

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Fix XMP handling dropping indirect references (#3392) by @stefan6419846

### Robustness (ROB)
- Deal with DecodeParms being empty list (#3388) by @stefan6419846

### Documentation (DOC)
- Document how to read and modify XMP metadata (#3383) by @stefan6419846

[Full Changelog](5.8.0...5.9.0)

REL: 5.8.0

## What's new

### New Features (ENH)
- Implement flattening for writer (#3312) by @PJBrs

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Unterminated object when using PdfWriter with incremental=True (#3345) by @m32

### Robustness (ROB)
- Resolve some image extraction edge cases (#3371) by @stefan6419846
- Ignore faulty trailing newline during RLE decoding (#3355) by @henningkoertelgmg
- Gracefully handle odd-length strings in parse_bfchar (#3348) by @stefan6419846

### Developer Experience (DEV)
- Modernize license specifiers (#3338) by @stefan6419846

### Maintenance (MAINT)
- Reduce max-complexity of tool.ruff.lint.mccabe (#3365) by @j-t-1
- Refactor text extraction code by @MartinThoma

[Full Changelog](5.7.0...5.8.0)

REL: 5.7.0

## What's new

### Performance Improvements (PI)
- Performance optimization for LZW decoding (#3329) by @henningkoertelgmg

### Robustness (ROB)
- Flate decoding for streams with faulty tail bytes (#3332) by @henningkoertelgmg
- dc_creator could be a Bag as well (#3333) by @stefan6419846
- Handle tree being NullObject when retrieving named destinations (#3331) by @stefan6419846

### Maintenance (MAINT)
- Move inline-image mappings to constants (#3328) by @stefan6419846

[Full Changelog](5.6.1...5.7.0)

REL: 5.6.1

## What's new

### New Features (ENH)
- Add PDF/A XMP metadata support (#3314) by @Arya-A-Nair

### Robustness (ROB)
- Deal with annotations not being lists on merge (#3321) by @stefan6419846
- Handle NullObject for cmap encoding Differences entry (#3317) by @stefan6419846

### Developer Experience (DEV)
- Update ruff to 0.12.0 (#3316) by @stefan6419846

[Full Changelog](5.6.0...5.6.1)