Start 2.16 branch

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>2.15.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
   <name>Jackson-core</name>
-  <version>2.15.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <description>Core Jackson processing abstractions (aka Streaming API), implementation for JSON</description>
   <licenses>

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ JSON library.
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+2.16.0 (not yet released)
+
+No changes since 2.15
+
 2.15.0 (23-Apr-2023)
 
 #827: Add numeric value size limits via `StreamReadConstraints` (fixes