Prepare for 2.16.0 release

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <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.module</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-module-kotlin</artifactId>

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Co-maintainers:
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-2.16.0-rc1 (20-Oct-2023)
+2.16.0 (15-Nov-2023)
 
 #707: If JsonSetter(nulls = Nulls.SKIP) is specified, the default argument is now used when null.
 #700: Reduce the load on the search process for serializers.