diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 1317b1c..eacfce7 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@
     <title>Apache Commons IO Release Notes</title>
   </properties>
   <body>
+    <release version="2.16.2" date="YYYY-MM-DD" description="Java 8 is required.">
+      <!-- FIX -->
+      <!-- UPDATE -->
+    </release>
     <release version="2.16.1" date="2024-04-04" description="Java 8 is required.">
       <!-- FIX -->
       <action dev="ggregory" type="fix"                due-to="Gary Gregory">Reimplement FileSystemUtils using NIO.</action>