v7.17.0

7.17.0

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Enhancements made

• Add support for arbitrary browser arguments #2227 (@shreve, @Carreau, @krassowski)

Bugs fixed

• Fix QtPNGExporter returning empty bytes on macOS #2264 (@h3pdesign, @Carreau, @QuLogic)
• Fix CVE-2025-53000: Secure Inkscape Windows path (registry first + block CWD) #2261 (@h3pdesign, @krassowski, @mberlanda, @minrk, @salmankadaya, @th3gowtham)
• Fix get_export_names and get_exporter default args #2228 (@shreve, @krassowski)
• PyPA-Compliant Summary #2226 (@hackowitz-af, @Carreau)

Maintenance and upkeep improvements

• avoid cov environment on free-threaded Pythons #2267 (@minrk)
• update pre-commit, and fix all issues. #2238 (@Carreau)
• Drop test on 3.9, test on 3.13, 3.14, 3.14t #2237 (@Carreau)
• Bump the actions group across 1 directory with 2 updates #2231 (@Carreau, @krassowski)
• Replace @flaky.flaky decorate with pytest marker #2229 (@mgorny, @Carreau)
• update to mermaid 11.10.0 #2224 (@bollwyvl, @krassowski)
• Drop support for Python 3.8, fix the CI tests #2221 (@shreve, @minrk)

Documentation improvements

• Use intersphinx_registry #2232 (@Carreau, @krassowski)

Contributors to this release

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@bollwyvl (activity) | @Carreau (activity) | @h3pdesign (activity) | @hackowitz-af (activity) | @krassowski (activity) | @mberlanda (activity) | @mgorny (activity) | @minrk (activity) | @MSeal (activity) | @QuLogic (activity) | @salmankadaya (activity) | @shreve (activity) | @th3gowtham (activity)