Preparing phoenix-tephra release 0.16.1RC0; tagging and updates to CHANGES.md and RELEASENOTES.md
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index cdcf2b1..5e4c938 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
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@@ -18,6 +18,18 @@
 -->
 # TEPHRA Changelog
 
+## Release 0.16.1 - Unreleased (as of 2021-04-27)
+
+
+
+### OTHER:
+
+| JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
+|:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [TEPHRA-317](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEPHRA-317) | Add support for HBase 2.4 |  Major | core |
+
+
+
 ## Release 0.16.0 - Unreleased (as of 2020-11-16)
 
 
diff --git a/RELEASENOTES.md b/RELEASENOTES.md
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--- a/RELEASENOTES.md
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@@ -16,6 +16,19 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 -->
+# TEPHRA  0.16.1 Release Notes
+
+These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.
+
+
+---
+
+* [TEPHRA-317](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEPHRA-317) | *Major* | **Add support for HBase 2.4**
+
+Tephra now supports HBase 2.4
+
+
+
 # TEPHRA  0.16.0 Release Notes
 
 These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
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+    <version>0.16.1</version>
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diff --git a/tephra-hbase-compat-2.0-base/tephra-hbase-compat-2.1/pom.xml b/tephra-hbase-compat-2.0-base/tephra-hbase-compat-2.1/pom.xml
index 4386530..1a37ab4 100644
--- a/tephra-hbase-compat-2.0-base/tephra-hbase-compat-2.1/pom.xml
+++ b/tephra-hbase-compat-2.0-base/tephra-hbase-compat-2.1/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
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+    <version>0.16.1</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/tephra-hbase-compat-2.0-base/tephra-hbase-compat-2.2/pom.xml b/tephra-hbase-compat-2.0-base/tephra-hbase-compat-2.2/pom.xml
index 1ba803c..a454dcf 100644
--- a/tephra-hbase-compat-2.0-base/tephra-hbase-compat-2.2/pom.xml
+++ b/tephra-hbase-compat-2.0-base/tephra-hbase-compat-2.2/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
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-    <version>0.17.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.16.1</version>
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   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/tephra-hbase-compat-2.3/pom.xml b/tephra-hbase-compat-2.3/pom.xml
index 104abc1..3704016 100644
--- a/tephra-hbase-compat-2.3/pom.xml
+++ b/tephra-hbase-compat-2.3/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
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diff --git a/tephra-hbase-compat-2.4/pom.xml b/tephra-hbase-compat-2.4/pom.xml
index 5e04267..7b3d528 100644
--- a/tephra-hbase-compat-2.4/pom.xml
+++ b/tephra-hbase-compat-2.4/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
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