🔖 Release version 0.156.8 (#16567)

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docs/en/docs/release-notes.md

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 ## Latest Changes
 
+## 0.156.8 (2026-10-21)
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 ### Fixes
 
 * 🐛 Preserve uploaded file positions when converting to `bytes`. PR [#16566](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/16566) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).

fastapi/__init__.py

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 """FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production"""
 
-__version__ = "0.156.7"
+__version__ = "0.156.8"
 
 from starlette import status as status