From bbac5307f20316f5fe5d95f8444975edb037d43c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "James R. Barlow" <james@purplerock.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:17:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] v17.8.1 release notes

---
 docs/releasenotes/version17.md | 12 ++++++++++++
 pyproject.toml                 |  2 +-
 src/ocrmypdf/_version.py       |  2 +-
 uv.lock                        |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/releasenotes/version17.md b/docs/releasenotes/version17.md
index 84ad9b1d..a7c9d94e 100644
--- a/docs/releasenotes/version17.md
+++ b/docs/releasenotes/version17.md
@@ -3,6 +3,18 @@
 
 # v17
 
+## v17.8.1
+
+- Improved the `--tesseract-pagesegmode` help text to point to
+  `tesseract --help-extra`, since Tesseract 5.5.2 moved the page segmentation
+  mode documentation there from `tesseract --help`. Thanks @sokai.
+- Internal refactoring: completed a project-wide mypy type-checking pass
+  (`--check-untyped-defs` is now enabled, and the mypy pre-commit hook is now
+  blocking rather than advisory), fixing several latent edge-case bugs
+  surfaced along the way.
+- Release process improvements: migrated from pre-commit to prek for local
+  git hooks, and added a dedicated lint job to CI.
+
 ## v17.8.0
 
 - `--output-type auto` (the default) again produces PDF/A whenever it can,
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index acf0f84b..50a642f2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "ocrmypdf"
-version = "17.8.0"
+version = "17.8.1"
 description = "OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
diff --git a/src/ocrmypdf/_version.py b/src/ocrmypdf/_version.py
index e93d7c91..5fb10511 100644
--- a/src/ocrmypdf/_version.py
+++ b/src/ocrmypdf/_version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 James R. Barlow
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
-__version__ = "17.8.0"
+__version__ = "17.8.1"
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 48fc5556..8f330184 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -1422,7 +1422,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ocrmypdf"
-version = "17.8.0"
+version = "17.8.1"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "fpdf2" },