Prepare for 2.16.2 release

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>2.16.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.16.2</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ a pure JSON library.
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-2.16.2 (not yet released)
+2.16.2 (09-Mar-2024)
 
--
+No changes since 2.16.1
 
 2.16.1 (24-Dec-2023)