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v2.1.0

useautumn/autumnv2.1.0Jun 7, 2026by adbar

AI Summary

This release focuses on performance improvements, robustness, and comprehensive bug fixes. Key updates include faster XPath processing using XSLT extensions, dependency updates, and significant enhancements to table and image extraction. The update also introduces a new metadata extraction method and improves general code maintenance.

Key Highlights

  • Faster XPath performance using XSLT extensions
  • Enhanced table extraction and link preservation capabilities
  • Added `extract_with_metadata` method and support for `meta name image`
  • Dependency updates, specifically lxml
  • Improved code robustness and modernization

New Features

  • Added `extract_with_metadata` method
  • Added support for `meta name image`
  • Added all Justext languages known to the detector

Full Release Notes

Major changes:
- Dependencies updated, lxml in particular (with minimal changes in the code)
- Faster XPath performance using XSLT extensions by @Honesty-of-the-Cavernous-Tissue (#793)
- More deprecation warnings
- More robust code

Fixes:
- Fix node pruning raising an AttributeError in certain cases by @PLPeeters (#761)
- Refine img src url and fix table extraction bugs by @unsleepy22 (#762)
- Fix eager doctype regex matching by @UVMvmfee (#764)
- Add extract_with_metadata method and ut by @unsleepy22 (#765)
- More robust table extraction by @unsleepy22 (#767)
- Detect code in pre-tag using indicators and fix code formatting issues by @steineggerroland (#776)
- Fix tokenizer not stripping "Ideographic Full Stop" by @reinoldus (#783)
- Improve spacing in item, cell and code blocks by @unsleepy22 (#772)
- Changed code to handle potential empty string by @seanswyi (#790)
- Optimize PUNCT_TBL creation by @deedy5 (#791)
- Replace `None`s in code blocks by @crackcomm in (#797)
- Propagate no_fallback setting to fast argument by @unsleepy22 (#800)
- Fix bug #807 by @arcombe012 (#808)
- Added support to meta name image by @felipehertzer (#809)
- Preserve images when links are included by @rmarchei (#841)
- Clean fencedframe element during extraction by @eyupcanakman (#847)
- Add all Justext languages known to the detector with @cikay (#810)
- Safer lxml element init by @adbar (#856)
- Preserve links in tables when --links is enabled by @rmarchei (#858)

Maintenance:
- Update docs by @adbar (#773)
- Update README: fix /dependents links by @vbarbaresi (#785)
- Update CI pipeline by @adbar (#801)
- Update setup, fix code and tests by @adbar (#853)
- Review consistency of code, tests and docs by @adbar (#855)
- Add tests to prevent metadata bugs by @adbar (#857)
- Tests: check consistency by @adbar (#859)
- Modernize code base by @adbar (#860)
- Format the code with ruff by @adbar (#861)