Preparing hbase release 2.4.16RC1; tagging and updates to CHANGES.md and RELEASENOTES.md

Signed-off-by: Duo Zhang <zhangduo@apache.org>
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index b3e11c9..61b230a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@
 | [HBASE-27557](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27557) | [JDK17] Update shade plugin version |  Minor | . |
 | [HBASE-25516](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25516) | [JDK17] reflective access Field.class.getDeclaredField("modifiers") not supported |  Major | Filesystem Integration |
 | [HBASE-27591](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27591) | [JDK17] Fix failure TestImmutableScan#testScanCopyConstructor |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-27581](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27581) | [JDK17] Fix failure TestHBaseTestingUtil#testResolvePortConflict |  Minor | test |
 
 
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