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 What's new
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-Next release
-============
+.. Next release
+.. ============
+
+v1.16.1 (2023-05-13)
+====================
 
 - Bug fix: :func:`.select` raised :class:`.KeyError` if the indexers contained values not appearing in the coords of the :class:`.Quantity` (:pull:`85`).
   This occurred with pandas 2.x, but not with earlier versions.