REL: 6.19.0

## What's new

### Security (SEC)
- Limit size of alphabetical page labels (#4096) by @stefan6419846

### Deprecations (DEP)
- Replace PdfWriter method add_js (#3979) by @j-t-1

### Performance Improvements (PI)
- Move static value out of loop body for appearance stream data (#4087) by @stefan6419846
- Reduce number of full data lookups for attachment mapping API (#4081) by @stefan6419846

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Do not copy unrelated pages when appending pages with non-terminal fields (#4078) by @anandghegde
- Use page reference for existing internal link targets (#4076) by @r-kamei
- Arabic-Indic digits are reversed during text extraction (#4077) by @Syamjith-NK
- Parse a string rect for add_uri into a rectangle (#4074) by @RavSinghChandan

[Full Changelog](6.18.1...6.19.0)

Author: stefan6419846

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,25 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
+## Version 6.19.0, 2026-09-16
+
+### Security (SEC)
+- Limit size of alphabetical page labels (#4096)
+
+### Deprecations (DEP)
+- Replace PdfWriter method add_js (#3979)
+
+### Performance Improvements (PI)
+- Move static value out of loop body for appearance stream data (#4087)
+- Reduce number of full data lookups for attachment mapping API (#4081)
+
+### Bug Fixes (BUG)
+- Do not copy unrelated pages when appending pages with non-terminal fields (#4078)
+- Use page reference for existing internal link targets (#4076)
+- Arabic-Indic digits are reversed during text extraction (#4077)
+- Parse a string rect for add_uri into a rectangle (#4074)
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/compare/6.18.1...6.19.0)
+
 ## Version 6.18.1, 2026-09-11
 
 ### Security (SEC)

pypdf/_version.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "6.18.1"
+__version__ = "6.19.0"