From d795d2422979ddda937ca02c652dec8752bd37c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tatu Saloranta <tatu.saloranta@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 16:12:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare for 2.16.0-rc1 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 887cc2e68..0cfafc239 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>2.16.0-rc1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.16.0-rc1</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
index 9766dbeb1..c2e9cfdfa 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Project: jackson-dataformat-xml
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-2.16.0 (not yet released)
+2.16.0-rc1 (20-Oct-2023)
 
 #148: `@JacksonXmlElementWrapper` not respected when serializing
   `Iterator`s / `Iterable`s