REL: 5.3.0

## What's new

### New Features (ENH)
- Handle attachments in /Kids and provide object-oriented API (#3108) by @stefan6419846

### Bug Fixes (BUG)
- Handle annotations being None on merging (#3111) by @stefan6419846

### Robustness (ROB)
- Prevent excessive layout mode text output from Type3 fonts (#3082) by @shartzog

### Documentation (DOC)
- stefan6419846 becomes BDFL of pypdf (#3078) by @MartinThoma

### Developer Experience (DEV)
- Remove ignoring multiple Ruff rules by @j-t-1
- Remove unused mutmut configuration (#3092) by @stefan6419846

### Testing (TST)
- Fix warning assertions to use `pytest.warns()` (#3083) by @mgorny

[Full Changelog](5.2.0...5.3.0)

Author: stefan6419846

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,29 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
+## Version 5.3.0, 2025-02-09
+
+### New Features (ENH)
+- Handle attachments in /Kids and provide object-oriented API (#3108)
+
+### Bug Fixes (BUG)
+- Handle annotations being None on merging (#3111)
+
+### Robustness (ROB)
+- Prevent excessive layout mode text output from Type3 fonts (#3082)
+
+### Documentation (DOC)
+- stefan6419846 becomes BDFL of pypdf (#3078)
+- Tidy the visitor function description (#3086)
+
+### Developer Experience (DEV)
+- Remove ignoring multiple Ruff rules
+- Remove unused mutmut configuration (#3092)
+
+### Testing (TST)
+- Fix warning assertions to use `pytest.warns()` (#3083)
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/compare/5.2.0...5.3.0)
+
 ## Version 5.2.0, 2025-01-26
 
 ### Deprecations (DEP)

pypdf/_version.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "5.2.0"
+__version__ = "5.3.0"