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 # HDMF Changelog
 
+## HDMF 3.9.0 (Upcoming)
+
+### New features and minor improvements
+- Increase raw data chunk cache size for reading HDF5 files from 1 MiB to 32 MiB. @bendichter, @rly [#925](https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf/pull/925)
+- Increase default chunk size for `GenericDataChunkIterator` from 1 MB to 10 MB. @bendichter, @rly [#925](https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf/pull/925)
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 ## HDMF 3.8.1 (July 25, 2023)
 
 ### Bug fixes