PyMuPDF 1.23.9rc2 release candidate

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PyMuPDF-1.23.9rc2 release candidate is available.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed with:

python -m pip install pymupdf==1.23.9rc2

[Linux-aarch64 wheels are not available.]

Changes in version 1.23.9rc2 (2024-01-08)

• Use MuPDF-1.23.8.

• Bug fixes (rebased implementation only):

  • Fixed Shelling out to pip during tests is problematic #2950
  • Fixed Passing a string as a page number raises IndexError instead of TypeError. #2961
  • Fixed annot.next throws AttributeError #2969
  • Fixed 1.23.9rc1: module 'fitz.mupdf' has no attribute 'fz_copy_pixmap_rect' #2978

• Other:

  • Improved support for Linux system installs, including adding reguslar test on Github.
  • Add optional setting of opacity to Page.insert_htmlbox().
  • Add missing flake8 to scripts/gh_release.py:test_packages.
  • Use newly public functions in MuPDF-1.23.8.

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