Scala 2.13.16 release notes (DRAFT)

Author: SethTisue

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+# Scala 2.13.16 (DRAFT)
+
+The Scala team at Lightbend is pleased to announce Scala 2.13.16.
+
+The following changes are highlights of this release:
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+### Compatibility
+
+### Features
+
+### Align with Scala 3
+
+### Errors and warnings
+
+### More changes
+
+For the complete 2.13.16 change lists, see [all merged PRs](https://github.com/scala/scala/pulls?q=is%3Amerged%20milestone%3A2.13.16) and [all closed bugs](https://github.com/scala/bug/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A2.13.16).
+
+## Compatibility
+
+As usual for our minor releases, Scala 2.13.16 is [binary-compatible](https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/binary-compatibility-of-scala-releases.html) with the whole Scala 2.13 series.
+
+Upgrading from 2.12? Enable `-Xmigration` while upgrading to request migration advice from the compiler.
+
+## Contributors
+
+A big thank you to everyone who's helped improve Scala by reporting bugs, improving our documentation, spreading kindness in discussions around Scala, and submitting and reviewing pull requests! You are all magnificent.
+
+We especially acknowledge and thank A. P. Marki, also known as Som Snytt, who is responsible for many of the improvements in this release.
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+This release was brought to you by 18 contributors, according to `git shortlog -sn --no-merges @ ^v2.13.15 ^2.12.x`. Thank you A. P. Marki, Seth Tisue, Scala Steward, Lukas Rytz, Friendseeker, Ondra Pelech, Philippus Baalman, Benjamin Maurer, Eric Seidel2, Hamza Remmal, Jamie Thompson, João Costa, Kenji Yoshida, Mathias Kools, Rikito Taniguchi, Yuming Wang, rochala, sh0hei.
+
+Thanks to [Lightbend](https://www.lightbend.com/scala) for their continued sponsorship of the Scala 2 team’s efforts. Lightbend offers [commercial support](https://www.lightbend.com/lightbend-platform-subscription) for Scala.
+
+## Scala 2.13 notes
+
+The [release notes for Scala 2.13.0](https://github.com/scala/scala/releases/v2.13.0) have important information applicable to the whole 2.13 series.
+
+## Obtaining Scala
+
+Scala releases are available through a variety of channels, including (but not limited to):
+
+* Bump the `using scala` setting in your Scala-CLI project
+* Bump the `scalaVersion` setting in your sbt or Mill project
+* Download a distribution from [scala-lang.org](https://scala-lang.org/download/2.13.16.html)
+* Obtain JARs via [Maven Central](https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.scala-lang%20AND%20v:2.13.16)