• Add support for Python 3.12

• New functionality run_and_get_multiple_output #511

• Fix for config parsing on Windows (#356 and #501)
• Fixes for the default hocr and boxing configs (#106 and #454)
• get_tesseract_version caching is optional and disabled by default for the user (#411)
• Various CI upgrades

• Fix image_to_osd regression (reported by @klavdijS)

• Support only python 3.7+ (3.6 is End of Life)
• Switch from deprecated distutils version parsing to packaging.version
• Add build system requirements in order for pip to properly install Pillow

Bugfix release:

• Header handling in file_to_dict function by @igor-ma
• Proper raising behavior in case of timeout by @amenezes
• __version__ attribute support by @amenezes
• Couple of bug fixes

[breaking change] Python 2 and 3.5 support dropped - reason, End of Life.
Migration to GitHub Actions CI workflow and pre-commit.ci for linting.
Added new function get_languages.
A couple of bug fixes.

Added support for ALTO XML output (by @eivtho)
Minor bugfix with TSV parsing.
More graceful timeout termination under Unix-like environments.

Removed pre-processing conversion - Pillow's image mode matrix doesn't support all use cases.
Fix for the output data from tesseract
Fix for dynamic I/O error handling

Support for WebP images
Support for python 3.8 (CI testing)
Improved cli error reporting
Fix for temp files under Windows