REL: 6.10.0

## What's new

### Security (SEC)
- Disallow custom XML entity declarations for XMP metadata (#3724) by @stefan6419846

### New Features (ENH)
- Skip MD5 key derivation for AES-256 encrypted PDFs (#3694) by @Ygnas

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Use remove_orphans in compress_identical_objects (#3310) by @j-t-1
- Fix PdfReadError when xref table contains comments before trailer (#3710) by @rassie
- Correctly verify AES padding during decryption (#3699) by @stefan6419846
- Fix stale object cache from non-authoritative object streams (#3698) by @astahlman
- Fix extract_links pairing when annotations include non-links (#3687) by @ReinerBRO

### Documentation (DOC)
- Add AI policy (#3717) by @stefan6419846

[Full Changelog](6.9.2...6.10.0)

Author: stefan6419846

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,25 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
+## Version 6.10.0, 2026-04-10
+
+### Security (SEC)
+- Disallow custom XML entity declarations for XMP metadata (#3724)
+
+### New Features (ENH)
+- Skip MD5 key derivation for AES-256 encrypted PDFs (#3694)
+
+### Bug Fixes (BUG)
+- Use remove_orphans in compress_identical_objects (#3310)
+- Fix PdfReadError when xref table contains comments before trailer (#3710)
+- Correctly verify AES padding during decryption (#3699)
+- Fix stale object cache from non-authoritative object streams (#3698)
+- Fix extract_links pairing when annotations include non-links (#3687)
+
+### Documentation (DOC)
+- Add AI policy (#3717)
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/compare/6.9.2...6.10.0)
+
 ## Version 6.9.2, 2026-03-23
 
 ### Security (SEC)

pypdf/_version.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "6.9.2"
+__version__ = "6.10.0"