From fdf204ea6ac54c37b8e59449e223f24fa8d1f324 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Wagner-Hall <dwagnerhall@twitter.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 18:53:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Release notes for 1.16.0rc1 (#7748)

---
 src/python/pants/notes/1.16.x.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/python/pants/notes/1.16.x.rst b/src/python/pants/notes/1.16.x.rst
index eb89b37bd10..654d626b2d1 100644
--- a/src/python/pants/notes/1.16.x.rst
+++ b/src/python/pants/notes/1.16.x.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,27 @@
 ======================
 This document describes releases leading up to the ``1.16.x`` ``stable`` series.
 
+1.16.0rc1 (5/17/2019)
+---------------------
+
+Bugfixes
+~~~~~~~~
+
+* Confluence publishing uses correct text types (#7746)
+  `PR #7746 <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/7746>`_
+
+* Fix 'current' platform check for python_dist() targets with C/C++ sources (#7687)
+  `PR #7687 <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/7687>`_
+
+* Fix ordering of args from compiler_option_sets and add test for scalac profiling (#7683)
+  `PR #7683 <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/7683>`_
+
+Version updates
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Bump pex to 1.6.7 (#7731)
+  `PR #7731 <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/7731>`_
+
 1.16.0rc0 (5/7/2019)
 --------------------