[Website] Add release note for 16.0.0 (#498)
diff --git a/_data/versions.yml b/_data/versions.yml
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--- a/_data/versions.yml
+++ 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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--- /dev/null
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+---
+layout: default
+title: Apache Arrow 16.0.0 Release
+permalink: /release/16.0.0.html
+---
+<!--
+{% comment %}
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+
+# 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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