From 66036b0342e23fd6c329db6080fa45e5689551ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 16:43:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release firestore 1.16.0

---
 .release-please-manifest-individual.json |  2 +-
 firestore/CHANGES.md                     | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 firestore/internal/version.go            |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest-individual.json b/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
index e397ed29c224..ec0b141c4974 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   "bigtable": "1.23.0",
   "datastore": "1.17.0",
   "errorreporting": "0.3.0",
-  "firestore": "1.15.0",
+  "firestore": "1.16.0",
   "logging": "1.9.0",
   "profiler": "0.4.0",
   "pubsub": "1.38.0",
diff --git a/firestore/CHANGES.md b/firestore/CHANGES.md
index 60d530eeda51..005e17c411e7 100644
--- a/firestore/CHANGES.md
+++ b/firestore/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,28 @@
 # Changes
 
+## [1.16.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/firestore/v1.15.0...firestore/v1.16.0) (2024-05-14)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **firestore/apiv1:** A new message `Backup` is added ([a3bb7c0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/a3bb7c07ba570f26c6eb073ab3275487784547d0))
+* **firestore/apiv1:** Add Vector Index API ([f8ff971](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/f8ff971366999aefb5eb5189c6c9e2bd76a05d9e))
+* **firestore:** Add new types ExplainOptions, ExplainMetrics, PlanSummary, ExecutionStats ([05f58cc](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/05f58ccce530d8a3ab404356929352002d5156ba))
+* **firestore:** Add VectorSearch API ([cddd528](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/cddd528a02edae10dde8ba2529922565ef27c418))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **firestore:** Bump x/net to v0.24.0 ([ba31ed5](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/ba31ed5fda2c9664f2e1cf972469295e63deb5b4))
+* **firestore:** Move createIndexes calls ([#9714](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/9714)) ([d931626](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/d9316263ca4ad0667d4a0f886a4977b36585b572))
+* **firestore:** Update protobuf dep to v1.33.0 ([30b038d](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/30b038d8cac0b8cd5dd4761c87f3f298760dd33a))
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* **firestore/apiv1:** Allow 14 week backup retention for Firestore daily backups ([#9685](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/9685)) ([2cdc40a](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/2cdc40a0b4288f5ab5f2b2b8f5c1d6453a9c81ec))
+* **firestore/apiv1:** Correct BackupSchedule recurrence docs that mentioned specific time of day ([fe85be0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/fe85be03d1e6ba69182ff1045a3faed15aa00128))
+
 ## [1.15.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/firestore/v1.14.0...firestore/v1.15.0) (2024-03-05)
 
 
@@ -192,5 +215,3 @@
 
 This is the first tag to carve out firestore as its own module. See:
 https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules#is-it-possible-to-add-a-module-to-a-multi-module-repository.
-
-
diff --git a/firestore/internal/version.go b/firestore/internal/version.go
index 43a2a84ef8eb..b82e17a1938d 100644
--- a/firestore/internal/version.go
+++ b/firestore/internal/version.go
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@
 package internal
 
 // Version is the current tagged release of the library.
-const Version = "1.15.0"
+const Version = "1.16.0"