[Website] Add release note for 16.0.0 (#498)

diff --git a/_data/versions.yml b/_data/versions.yml
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+++ b/_data/versions.yml
@@ -16,17 +16,17 @@
 # Database of the current version
 #
 current:
-  number: '15.0.2'
-  pinned_number: '15.0.*'
-  major_number: '15'
-  date: 2024-03-18
-  git-tag: 'e03105efc38edca4ca429bf967a17b4d0fbebe40'
-  github-tag-link: 'https://github.com/apache/arrow/releases/tag/apache-arrow-15.0.2'
-  release-notes: 'https://arrow.apache.org/release/15.0.2.html'
-  mirrors: 'https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/arrow/arrow-15.0.2/'
-  tarball-name: 'apache-arrow-15.0.2.tar.gz'
-  tarball-url: 'https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?action=download&filename=arrow/arrow-15.0.2/apache-arrow-15.0.2.tar.gz'
-  java-artifacts: 'https://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.apache.arrow%22%20AND%20v%3A%2215.0.2%22'
-  asc: 'https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/arrow-15.0.2/apache-arrow-15.0.2.tar.gz.asc'
-  sha256: 'https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/arrow-15.0.2/apache-arrow-15.0.2.tar.gz.sha256'
-  sha512: 'https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/arrow-15.0.2/apache-arrow-15.0.2.tar.gz.sha512'
+  number: '16.0.0'
+  pinned_number: '16.0.*'
+  major_number: '16'
+  date: 2024-04-20
+  git-tag: '6a28035c2b49b432dc63f5ee7524d76b4ed2d762'
+  github-tag-link: 'https://github.com/apache/arrow/releases/tag/apache-arrow-16.0.0'
+  release-notes: 'https://arrow.apache.org/release/16.0.0.html'
+  mirrors: 'https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/arrow/arrow-16.0.0/'
+  tarball-name: 'apache-arrow-16.0.0.tar.gz'
+  tarball-url: 'https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?action=download&filename=arrow/arrow-16.0.0/apache-arrow-16.0.0.tar.gz'
+  java-artifacts: 'https://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.apache.arrow%22%20AND%20v%3A%2216.0.0%22'
+  asc: 'https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/arrow-16.0.0/apache-arrow-16.0.0.tar.gz.asc'
+  sha256: 'https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/arrow-16.0.0/apache-arrow-16.0.0.tar.gz.sha256'
+  sha512: 'https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/arrow-16.0.0/apache-arrow-16.0.0.tar.gz.sha512'
diff --git a/_release/16.0.0.md b/_release/16.0.0.md
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+---
+layout: default
+title: Apache Arrow 16.0.0 Release
+permalink: /release/16.0.0.html
+---
+<!--
+{% comment %}
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+contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
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+
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+
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+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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+limitations under the License.
+{% endcomment %}
+-->
+
+# Apache Arrow 16.0.0 (20 April 2024)
+
+This is a major release covering more than 1 months of development.
+
+## Download
+
+* [**Source Artifacts**][1]
+* **Binary Artifacts**
+  * [For AlmaLinux][2]
+  * [For Amazon Linux][3]
+  * [For CentOS][4]
+  * [For C#][5]
+  * [For Debian][6]
+  * [For Python][7]
+  * [For Ubuntu][8]
+* [Git tag][9]
+
+## Contributors
+
+This release includes 587 commits from 119 distinct contributors.
+
+```console
+$ git shortlog -sn apache-arrow-15.0.2..apache-arrow-16.0.0
+    79	dependabot[bot]
+    70	Sutou Kouhei
+    41	Antoine Pitrou
+    31	Joris Van den Bossche
+    28	Raúl Cumplido
+    24	Alenka Frim
+    19	mwish
+    14	Felipe Oliveira Carvalho
+    13	Jacob Wujciak-Jens
+    12	Dewey Dunnington
+    11	Dane Pitkin
+    10	Bryce Mecum
+    10	Matt Topol
+     9	Jonathan Keane
+     9	ZhangHuiGui
+     8	Vibhatha Lakmal Abeykoon
+     7	Rossi Sun
+     6	Adam Reeve
+     6	David Li
+     6	Hyunseok Seo
+     6	James Henderson
+     6	Thomas Newton
+     6	david dali susanibar arce
+     5	Dominik Moritz
+     5	Laurent Goujon
+     5	Weston Pace
+     4	Curt Hagenlocher
+     4	Divyansh200102
+     4	Gang Wu
+     4	Ian Cook
+     4	James Duong
+     4	abandy
+     3	Benjamin Kietzman
+     3	Jin Shang
+     3	Joel Lubinitsky
+     3	Judah Rand
+     3	Nic Crane
+     3	Rok Mihevc
+     3	Rossi(Ruoxi) Sun
+     3	Vyas Ramasubramani
+     3	Xiansen Chen
+     2	Anja Kefala
+     2	Gabriel Tomitsuka
+     2	Josh Soref
+     2	LucasG0
+     2	Marcus D. Hanwell
+     2	Michał Górny
+     2	Neal Richardson
+     2	Paul
+     2	Sten Larsson
+     2	Zhen Wang
+     2	emkornfield
+     2	wayne
+     1	0x0000ffff
+     1	Adam Curtis
+     1	Alex Shcherbakov
+     1	Alexander Blazhkov
+     1	Ali Khalili
+     1	Andrew Grosser
+     1	Andrew Lamb
+     1	Austin Dickey
+     1	Chun Yang
+     1	Clay Johnson
+     1	Clif Houck
+     1	David Greiss
+     1	Donald Tolley
+     1	Elliot Morrison-Reed
+     1	Etienne Bacher
+     1	Florian Bernard
+     1	Florian Jetter
+     1	Fokko Driesprong
+     1	Francis
+     1	Hadley Wickham
+     1	Hattonuri
+     1	Hussein Awala
+     1	JB Onofré
+     1	Jeffrey Vo
+     1	Jeremy Aguilon
+     1	Jinpeng
+     1	Joe Marshall
+     1	Jânio
+     1	Kemal
+     1	Kevin Gurney
+     1	Kevin Mingtarja
+     1	Lev Tolmachev
+     1	Liang-Chi Hsieh
+     1	Lubo Slivka
+     1	Lyndon Shi
+     1	MagicBoost
+     1	Matthew McNew
+     1	Miguel Pragier
+     1	Miles
+     1	Paul Nienaber
+     1	Peter Newcomb
+     1	Sandro
+     1	Simon Perkins
+     1	Siyang Tang
+     1	Tom Jarosz
+     1	Uwe L. Korn
+     1	Will Jones
+     1	Yan Zhou
+     1	Yue
+     1	arunppsg
+     1	av8or1
+     1	carehabit
+     1	dsisnero
+     1	ella-chao
+     1	h-vetinari
+     1	keshen-msft
+     1	lriggs
+     1	messense
+     1	normanj-bitquill
+     1	qmmk
+     1	sgilmore10
+     1	sullis
+     1	tobim
+     1	y.yoshida5
+     1	ywgrit
+     1	野鹿
+```
+
+## Patch Committers
+
+The following Apache committers merged contributed patches to the repository.
+
+```console
+$ git shortlog -sn --group=trailer:signed-off-by apache-arrow-15.0.2..apache-arrow-16.0.0
+   176	Sutou Kouhei
+    97	Antoine Pitrou
+    58	Joris Van den Bossche
+    50	David Li
+    32	Matt Topol
+    27	Curt Hagenlocher
+    20	Jacob Wujciak-Jens
+    17	Raúl Cumplido
+    16	Felipe Oliveira Carvalho
+    14	AlenkaF
+    13	mwish
+     9	Benjamin Kietzman
+     8	Dewey Dunnington
+     6	Nic Crane
+     5	Bryce Mecum
+     5	Jonathan Keane
+     3	Weston Pace
+     3	dependabot[bot]
+     2	Kevin Gurney
+     1	Rok Mihevc
+```
+
+## Changelog
+
+[1]: https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/arrow/arrow-16.0.0/
+[2]: https://apache.jfrog.io/artifactory/arrow/almalinux/
+[3]: https://apache.jfrog.io/artifactory/arrow/amazon-linux/
+[4]: https://apache.jfrog.io/artifactory/arrow/centos/
+[5]: https://apache.jfrog.io/artifactory/arrow/nuget/
+[6]: https://apache.jfrog.io/artifactory/arrow/debian/
+[7]: https://apache.jfrog.io/artifactory/arrow/python/16.0.0/
+[8]: https://apache.jfrog.io/artifactory/arrow/ubuntu/
+[9]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/releases/tag/apache-arrow-16.0.0
diff --git a/_release/index.md b/_release/index.md
index bee4e46..9c1e264 100644
--- a/_release/index.md
+++ b/_release/index.md
@@ -26,98 +26,100 @@
 
 Navigate to the release page for downloads and the changelog.
 
-* [15.0.2 (18 March 2024)][1]
-* [15.0.1 (7 March 2024)][2]
-* [15.0.0 (21 January 2024)][3]
-* [14.0.2 (19 December 2023)][4]
-* [14.0.1 (10 November 2023)][5]
-* [14.0.0 (1 November 2023)][6]
-* [13.0.0 (23 August 2023)][7]
-* [12.0.1 (13 June 2023)][8]
-* [12.0.0 (2 May 2023)][9]
-* [11.0.0 (26 January 2023)][10]
-* [10.0.1 (22 November 2022)][11]
-* [10.0.0 (26 October 2022)][12]
-* [9.0.0 (3 August 2022)][13]
-* [8.0.0 (6 May 2022)][14]
-* [7.0.0 (3 February 2022)][15]
-* [6.0.1 (18 November 2021)][16]
-* [6.0.0 (26 October 2021)][17]
-* [5.0.0 (29 July 2021)][18]
-* [4.0.1 (26 May 2021)][19]
-* [4.0.0 (26 April 2021)][20]
-* [3.0.0 (26 January 2021)][21]
-* [2.0.0 (19 October 2020)][22]
-* [1.0.1 (21 August 2020)][23]
-* [1.0.0 (24 July 2020)][24]
-* [0.17.1 (18 May 2020)][25]
-* [0.17.0 (20 April 2020)][26]
-* [0.16.0 (7 February 2020)][27]
-* [0.15.1 (1 November 2019)][28]
-* [0.15.0 (5 October 2019)][29]
-* [0.14.1 (22 July 2019)][30]
-* [0.14.0 (4 July 2019)][31]
-* [0.13.0 (1 April 2019)][32]
-* [0.12.0 (20 January 2019)][33]
-* [0.11.1 (19 October 2018)][34]
-* [0.11.0 (8 October 2018)][35]
-* [0.10.0 (6 August 2018)][36]
-* [0.9.0 (21 March 2018)][37]
-* [0.8.0 (18 December 2017)][38]
-* [0.7.1 (1 October 2017)][39]
-* [0.7.0 (17 September 2017)][40]
-* [0.6.0 (14 August 2017)][41]
-* [0.5.0 (23 July 2017)][42]
-* [0.4.1 (9 June 2017)][43]
-* [0.4.0 (22 May 2017)][44]
-* [0.3.0 (5 May 2017)][45]
-* [0.2.0 (18 February 2017)][46]
-* [0.1.0 (10 October 2016)][47]
+* [16.0.0 (20 April 2024)][1]
+* [15.0.2 (18 March 2024)][2]
+* [15.0.1 (7 March 2024)][3]
+* [15.0.0 (21 January 2024)][4]
+* [14.0.2 (19 December 2023)][5]
+* [14.0.1 (10 November 2023)][6]
+* [14.0.0 (1 November 2023)][7]
+* [13.0.0 (23 August 2023)][8]
+* [12.0.1 (13 June 2023)][9]
+* [12.0.0 (2 May 2023)][10]
+* [11.0.0 (26 January 2023)][11]
+* [10.0.1 (22 November 2022)][12]
+* [10.0.0 (26 October 2022)][13]
+* [9.0.0 (3 August 2022)][14]
+* [8.0.0 (6 May 2022)][15]
+* [7.0.0 (3 February 2022)][16]
+* [6.0.1 (18 November 2021)][17]
+* [6.0.0 (26 October 2021)][18]
+* [5.0.0 (29 July 2021)][19]
+* [4.0.1 (26 May 2021)][20]
+* [4.0.0 (26 April 2021)][21]
+* [3.0.0 (26 January 2021)][22]
+* [2.0.0 (19 October 2020)][23]
+* [1.0.1 (21 August 2020)][24]
+* [1.0.0 (24 July 2020)][25]
+* [0.17.1 (18 May 2020)][26]
+* [0.17.0 (20 April 2020)][27]
+* [0.16.0 (7 February 2020)][28]
+* [0.15.1 (1 November 2019)][29]
+* [0.15.0 (5 October 2019)][30]
+* [0.14.1 (22 July 2019)][31]
+* [0.14.0 (4 July 2019)][32]
+* [0.13.0 (1 April 2019)][33]
+* [0.12.0 (20 January 2019)][34]
+* [0.11.1 (19 October 2018)][35]
+* [0.11.0 (8 October 2018)][36]
+* [0.10.0 (6 August 2018)][37]
+* [0.9.0 (21 March 2018)][38]
+* [0.8.0 (18 December 2017)][39]
+* [0.7.1 (1 October 2017)][40]
+* [0.7.0 (17 September 2017)][41]
+* [0.6.0 (14 August 2017)][42]
+* [0.5.0 (23 July 2017)][43]
+* [0.4.1 (9 June 2017)][44]
+* [0.4.0 (22 May 2017)][45]
+* [0.3.0 (5 May 2017)][46]
+* [0.2.0 (18 February 2017)][47]
+* [0.1.0 (10 October 2016)][48]
 
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