From 8b0bf6cac7fef58ffb040469a8b74db529ddb26f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tatu Saloranta <tatu.saloranta@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:57:15 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare for 2.16.0 release

---
 pom.xml                   | 2 +-
 release-notes/VERSION-2.x | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d4462ed5..b57357b6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>2.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.16.0</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-dataformats-text</artifactId>
diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
index 8fe19698..111e3366 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Active Maintainers:
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-2.16.0-rc1 (20-Oct-2023)
+2.16.0 (15-Nov-2023)
 
 #198: (csv) Support writing numbers as quoted Strings with
   `CsvGenerator.Feature.ALWAYS_QUOTE_NUMBERS`