v53.0

This version also includes the changes from unstable b1 and b2 versions listed below.

Read about this release on our blog.

Dependencies

• Pango 1.44.0+ is now needed.
• pydyf 0.0.3+ is now needed.
• fontTools 4.0.0+ is now needed.
• html5lib 1.0.1+ is now needed.

API changes

• FontConfiguration is now in the weasyprint.text.fonts module.
• --format and --resolution options have been deprecated, PDF is the only output format supported.
• --optimize-images option has been deprecated and replaced by --optimize-size, allowing images, fonts, all and none values.
• weasyprint.tools have been removed.
• Document.resolve_links, Document.make_bookmark_tree and Document.add_hyperlinks have been removed.

Performance

• Improve image management

New features

• #1374: Support basic "clipPath" in SVG

Bug fixes

• #1369: Render use path in SVG
• #1370: Fix fill color on use path in SVG
• #1371: Handle stroke-opacity and fill-opacity
• #1378: Fix crash with borders whose widths are in em
• #1394: Fix crash on draw_pattern
• #880: Handle stacking contexts put in contexts by previous generations
• #1386: Catch font subsetting errors
• #1403: Fix how x and y attributes are handled in SVG
• #1399, #1401: Don’t crash when use tags reference non-existing element
• #1393: Handle font collections
• #1408: Handle x and y attributes in use tags

Documentation

• #1391, #1405: Add documentation for installation

Contributors

• Guillaume Ayoub
• Lucie Anglade
• Pelle Bo Regener
• aschmitz
• John Jackson
• Felix Schwarz
• Syrus Dark
• Christoph Päper

Backers and sponsors

• OpenEdition
• Grip Angebotssoftware
• Simonsoft
• PDF Blocks
• Menutech
• Manuel Barkhau
• print-css.rocks
• Simon Sapin
• KontextWork
• René Fritz
• Maykin Media
• Nathalie Gutton
• Andreas Zettl
• Tom Pohl
• NCC Group
• Moritz Mahringer
• Florian Demmer
• Des images et des mots
• Mohammed Y. Alnajdi
• Yanal-Yvez Fargialla
• Yevhenii Hyzyla