REL: add a 1.16 changelog entry, bump the version to 1.16.0

docs/changelog.md

@@ -1,5 +1,36 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 1.16.0 (2026-10-25)
+
+### New features
+
+- New helpers for the `mparray` library have been added: `is_mparray_array` and
+  `is_mparray_namespace`.
+- New helpers for the `dpnp` library have been added: `is_dpnp_array` and
+  `is_dpnp_namespace`.
+- `torch.reshape` now implements `copy=` arguments.
+- Pytorch binary functions have been wrapped to accept (array, python scalar) pairs.
+
+### Perfomance and other improvements
+
+- Performance of `numpy.clip` has been improved
+- `numpy.reshape` uses the native numpy `reshape` function for `numpy >= 2.1`
+- Multiple `fft` functions avoid an unneccessary copy, which improves performance
+  and memory consumption
+- `py.typed` marker is included in the installed package.
+
+### The following users contributed to this release:
+
+Raashish Aggarwal,
+Evgeni Burovski,
+Lucas Colley,
+Stanley C,
+Matt Haberland, 
+Tim Head,
+Chris Ninham,
+Laslo Ruhberg.
+
+
 ## 1.15.0 (2026-06-07)
 
 ### Major changes

meson.build

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project(
   'array_api_compat',
-  version: '1.16.0.dev0',
+  version: '1.16.0',
   license: 'MIT',
   license_files: ['LICENSE']
 )

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "mesonpy"
 
 [project]
 name = "array-api-compat"
-version = "1.16.0.dev0"
+version = "1.16.0"
 description = "A wrapper around NumPy and other array libraries to make them compatible with the Array API standard"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"

src/array_api_compat/__init__.py

@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@
 this implementation for the default when working with NumPy arrays.
 
 """
-__version__ = '1.16.0.dev0'
+__version__ = '1.16.0'
 
 from .common import *  # noqa: F403