REL: 6.16.2

## What's new

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Make remove_from_tree() work on outline items (#3939) by @RISHIKKASULA
- Be more lenient about space width in layout mode text extraction (#3992) by @PJBrs
- Do not scale the text leading by the font size (#3987) by @matthewkogan
- Update annotation appearance stream matrix on page transform (#3968) by @BashfulHippo
- Allow repeated page references (#3959) by @yuming-long

### Robustness (ROB)
- Improve RC4 fallback when cryptography can't provide it (#3853) by @msylw

[Full Changelog](6.16.1...6.16.2)

Author: stefan6419846

CHANGELOG.md

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 # CHANGELOG
 
+## Version 6.16.2, 2026-08-23
+
+### Bug Fixes (BUG)
+- Make remove_from_tree() work on outline items (#3939)
+- Be more lenient about space width in layout mode text extraction (#3992)
+- Do not scale the text leading by the font size (#3987)
+- Update annotation appearance stream matrix on page transform (#3968)
+- Allow repeated page references (#3959)
+
+### Robustness (ROB)
+- Improve RC4 fallback when cryptography can't provide it (#3853)
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/compare/6.16.1...6.16.2)
+
 ## Version 6.16.1, 2026-08-14
 
 ### Security (SEC)

pypdf/_version.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "6.16.1"
+__version__ = "6.16.2"