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<details><summary>google-cloud-storage: 3.8.0</summary>

##
[3.8.0](v3.7.0...v3.8.0)
(2026-01-13)

### Features

* expose persisted size in mrd (#1671)
([0e2961b](0e2961be))

* implement &#34;append_from_file&#34; (#1686)
([1333c95](1333c956))

* compute chunk wise checksum for bidi_writes (#1675)
([139390c](139390cb))

* flush the last chunk in append method (#1699)
([89bfe7a](89bfe7a5))

* add write resumption strategy (#1663)
([a57ea0e](a57ea0ec))

* add bidi stream retry manager. (#1632)
([d90f0ee](d90f0ee0))

* make flush size configurable (#1677)
([f7095fa](f7095faf))

### Bug Fixes

* no state lookup while opening bidi-write stream
([2d5a7b1](2d5a7b16))

* no state lookup while opening bidi-write stream (#1636)
([2d5a7b1](2d5a7b16))

* close write object stream always (#1661)
([4a609a4](4a609a4b))

* add system test for opening with read_handle (#1672)
([6dc711d](6dc711da))

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Co-authored-by: Victor Chudnovsky <vchudnov@google.com>