v4.9.124

This release contains improvements for the annotation editor, form rendering, image conversion, text selection and the viewer.

Changes since v4.8.69

• Bump the stable version in pdfjs.config by @timvandermeij in #18994
• Update dependencies and translations to the most recent versions by @timvandermeij in #18995
• Enable the "should have an alt attribute from toolTip" unit-test in Node.js by @Snuffleupagus in #18998
• Enable the 'gets PDF filename from query string appended to "blob:" URL' unit-test in Node.js by @Snuffleupagus in #18997
• Use the toBase64Util helper function in the unit-tests by @Snuffleupagus in #18999
• Install and use the most recent Node types for the types tests by @timvandermeij in #19000
• Fix the "must convert input to uppercase" scripting integration test by @timvandermeij in #19001
• [api-minor] Update the minimum supported Node.js version to 20, and only support the Fetch API for "remote" PDF documents in Node.js by @Snuffleupagus in #18959
• Fix error on empty response headers by @CyberAndrii in #19010
• Try to improve handling of missing trailer dictionaries in XRef.indexObjects (issue 18986) by @Snuffleupagus in #19007
• Shorten a few helper functions in src/core/core_utils.js by @Snuffleupagus in #19005
• Add helper functions to load image blob/bitmap data in test/unit/api_spec.js by @Snuffleupagus in #19003
• Bump library version to 4.9 by @Snuffleupagus in #19002
• Simplify toRomanNumerals function by @calixteman in #19011
• Fix Typo:XFATemplate class Para Styling paddingight => paddingRight by @Snuffleupagus in #19012
• Set the padding of the buttons in the toolbars to zero by @calixteman in #19018
• Shorten the Page.prototype.userUnit getter slightly by @Snuffleupagus in #19019
• [api-minor] Replace the canvas package with @napi-rs/canvas by @Snuffleupagus in #19015
• Apply gradient when stroking text by @calixteman in #19023
• Disable ref test 'issue18896' for Chrome because it takes too much time by @calixteman in #19024
• Simplify saving added/modified annotations. by @calixteman in #19026
• Migrate to ESLint flat config by @nicolo-ribaudo in #19029
• Add a PartialEvaluator helper for fetching CMap and Standard Font data by @Snuffleupagus in #19021
• Use Python 3.13 in the GitHub workflows by @timvandermeij in #19035
• Update dependencies and translations to the most recent versions by @timvandermeij in #19033
• [api-minor] Add a getDocument option to disable ImageDecoder usage by @Snuffleupagus in #19031
• Remove the extensions/chromium/.eslintrc file (PR 19029 follow-up) by @Snuffleupagus in #19052
• Enable the ESLint no-var rule in the src/core/evaluator.js file by @Snuffleupagus in #19050
• Enable the ESLint no-console rule in parts of the code-base by @Snuffleupagus in #19042
• Avoid redundant CMap-value lookup in extendCMap (PR 5101 follow-up) by @Snuffleupagus in #19057
• Convert the Dict-implementation to use a Map internally by @Snuffleupagus in #19051
• Improve clean-up of #_hcmCache-data in DOMFilterFactory.prototype.destroy by @Snuffleupagus in #19059
• [api-minor] Disable ImageDecoder usage by default in Chromium browsers by @Snuffleupagus in #19045
• When saving some annotations with the same name, set the value in the parent by @calixteman in #19054
• Remove obsolete Gitpod files by @timvandermeij in #19062
• Update dependencies and translations to the most recent versions by @timvandermeij in #19061
• Update svglint to 3.1.0 by @calixteman in #18669
• Use JSON imports instead of PDFJSDev.json by @nicolo-ribaudo in #19068
• Fix the "must check that an infinite loop is not triggered" integration test by @timvandermeij in #19064
• Enable the unicorn/no-single-promise-in-promise-methods ESLint plugin rule by @Snuffleupagus in #19071
• Fix 'must load a SVG, delete it and undo' integration test by @calixteman in #19069
• Simplify the getUuid helper function by @Snuffleupagus in #19084
• Use the V entry as an option when no options in a choice widget by @calixteman in #19086
• [Editor] Simplify the draw layer code by @calixteman in #19085
• [Editor] Avoid to scroll when dragging an editor on a touch screen by @calixteman in #19087
• [Editor] Avoid to use event.movementX/Y when resizing an editor by @calixteman in #19088
• Ensure that the response-origin of range requests match the full request (issue 12744) by @Snuffleupagus in #19028
• Rescale the image data when they're really too large by @calixteman in #19095
• Fix path traversal issue in createTemporaryNodeServer by @Rob--W in #19096
• Convert the getPdfManager function to be asynchronous by @Snuffleupagus in #19091
• Drop trailing whitespace from test/unit/api_spec.js by @Rob--W in #19100
• Fix the highlight integration test when highlighting with the keyboard by @calixteman in #19111
• [Editor] Disallow to have multiple pointers while dragging an editor by @calixteman in #19109
• [Editor] Add a new base class to allow to add a drawing in the SVG layer. by @calixteman in #19093
• Correctly compute the mapping between text and normalized text when it contains a compound word on two lines by @calixteman in #19122
• Use the stopEvent helper function everywhere possible by @Snuffleupagus in #19121
• Very slightly improve the performance when searching in a pdf by @calixteman in #19123
• [Editor] Allow to abort the current drawing by @calixteman in #19129
• Fix #serializeBoxes function not output correct quadPoints values for deserialize (issue19056) by @jarklee in #19066
• Simplify the code to zoom in using a pinch gesture by @calixteman in #19124
• Build date consistently (in term of tz) when executing some embedded JS (bug 1934157) by @calixteman in #19131
• Use even more optional chaining in the src/display/api.js file by @Snuffleupagus in #19135
• Shorten the WorkerMessageHandler class a little bit by @Snuffleupagus in #19136
• Move the getPage call in PDFDocumentProperties class by @Snuffleupagus in #19137
• Update dependencies and translations to the most recent versions by @timvandermeij in #19099
• Disable the browser-tests in Google Chrome on the bots by @Snuffleupagus in #19117