REL: 6.1.0

## What's new

### New Features (ENH)
- Enhance XMP metadata handling with creation and setter methods (#3410) by @Arya-A-Nair
- Add all font metrics for base 14 Type 1 PDF fonts (#3363) by @PJBrs
- Allow deleting embedded files (#3461) by @stefan6419846
- Add support for Python in FIPS mode for document identifier (#3438) by @xnox

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Fix handling of UTF-16 encoded destination titles (#3463) by @stefan6419846
- Guard empty input to prevent IndexError (#3448) by @KyleJung0828

### Developer Experience (DEV)
- Fix type hint for XMP metadata setter to add bytes type (#3464) by @stefan6419846

[Full Changelog](6.0.0...6.1.0)

Author: stefan6419846

CHANGELOG.md

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 # CHANGELOG
 
+## Version 6.1.0, 2025-09-21
+
+### New Features (ENH)
+- Enhance XMP metadata handling with creation and setter methods (#3410)
+- Add all font metrics for base 14 Type 1 PDF fonts (#3363)
+- Allow deleting embedded files (#3461)
+- Add support for Python in FIPS mode for document identifier (#3438)
+
+### Bug Fixes (BUG)
+- Fix handling of UTF-16 encoded destination titles (#3463)
+- Guard empty input to prevent IndexError (#3448)
+
+### Developer Experience (DEV)
+- Fix type hint for XMP metadata setter to add bytes type (#3464)
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/compare/6.0.0...6.1.0)
+
 ## Version 6.0.0, 2025-08-11
 
 ### Security (SEC)

pypdf/_version.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "6.0.0"
+__version__ = "6.1.0"