REL: 5.9.0

## What's new

### New Features (ENH)
- Automatically preserve links in added pages (#3298) by @larsga
- Allow writing/updating all properties of an embedded file (#3374) by @Arya-A-Nair

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Fix XMP handling dropping indirect references (#3392) by @stefan6419846

### Robustness (ROB)
- Deal with DecodeParms being empty list (#3388) by @stefan6419846

### Documentation (DOC)
- Document how to read and modify XMP metadata (#3383) by @stefan6419846

[Full Changelog](5.8.0...5.9.0)

Author: stefan6419846

CHANGELOG.md

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 # CHANGELOG
 
+## Version 5.9.0, 2025-07-27
+
+### New Features (ENH)
+- Automatically preserve links in added pages (#3298)
+- Allow writing/updating all properties of an embedded file (#3374)
+
+### Bug Fixes (BUG)
+- Fix XMP handling dropping indirect references (#3392)
+
+### Robustness (ROB)
+- Deal with DecodeParms being empty list (#3388)
+
+### Documentation (DOC)
+- Document how to read and modify XMP metadata (#3383)
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/compare/5.8.0...5.9.0)
+
 ## Version 5.8.0, 2025-07-13
 
 ### New Features (ENH)

pypdf/_version.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "5.8.0"
+__version__ = "5.9.0"