From 134eb50af6e2c95a941c4577839c7e6cbe10113f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "opentdf-automation[bot]"
 <149537512+opentdf-automation[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:24:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release 0.16.0

---
 .../release-please/release-please-manifest.json |  2 +-
 CHANGELOG.md                                    | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 cmdline/pom.xml                                 |  2 +-
 .../main/java/io/opentdf/platform/Command.java  |  2 +-
 examples/pom.xml                                |  2 +-
 pom.xml                                         |  2 +-
 sdk-fips-bouncycastle/pom.xml                   |  5 ++---
 sdk/pom.xml                                     |  6 +++---
 .../java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/Version.java   |  2 +-
 9 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/release-please/release-please-manifest.json b/.github/release-please/release-please-manifest.json
index 8f3e0a49..b4e9013b 100644
--- a/.github/release-please/release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.github/release-please/release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.15.0"
+  ".": "0.16.0"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 108f6335..ba181593 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.16.0](https://github.com/opentdf/java-sdk/compare/v0.15.0...v0.16.0) (2026-06-22)
+
+
+### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
+
+* **sdk:** remove bouncycastle and ayza libraries ([#367](https://github.com/opentdf/java-sdk/issues/367))
+
+### Features
+
+* **sdk:** remove bouncycastle and ayza libraries ([#367](https://github.com/opentdf/java-sdk/issues/367)) ([63b49af](https://github.com/opentdf/java-sdk/commit/63b49af858f5eb78ea3db72d2fe991abdb3fcec8))
+* verify that BC works with `approved_only` mode set ([#375](https://github.com/opentdf/java-sdk/issues/375)) ([36fd6cf](https://github.com/opentdf/java-sdk/commit/36fd6cf0f75f986f2d4e456f47ee83c55756d2f7))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **main:** Update bc module sdk version. ([#377](https://github.com/opentdf/java-sdk/issues/377)) ([9b38f82](https://github.com/opentdf/java-sdk/commit/9b38f82a5bc61284f844e9527ca34a206648e646))
+
 ## [0.15.0](https://github.com/opentdf/java-sdk/compare/v0.14.0...v0.15.0) (2026-04-29)
 
 
diff --git a/cmdline/pom.xml b/cmdline/pom.xml
index 7f5a43d4..cecc72ba 100644
--- a/cmdline/pom.xml
+++ b/cmdline/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>io.opentdf.platform</groupId>
         <artifactId>sdk-pom</artifactId>
-        <version>0.15.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.16.0</version>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>cmdline</artifactId>
     <properties>
diff --git a/cmdline/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/Command.java b/cmdline/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/Command.java
index 4d80f55a..3bfa58f2 100644
--- a/cmdline/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/Command.java
+++ b/cmdline/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/Command.java
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
  */
 class Versions {
     // Version of the SDK, managed by release-please.
-    public static final String SDK = "0.15.1-SNAPSHOT"; // x-release-please-version
+    public static final String SDK = "0.16.0"; // x-release-please-version
 
     // This sdk aims to support this version of the TDF spec; currently 4.3.0.
     public static final String TDF_SPEC = "4.3.0";
diff --git a/examples/pom.xml b/examples/pom.xml
index bf969794..cc1fe3c5 100644
--- a/examples/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>sdk-pom</artifactId>
     <groupId>io.opentdf.platform</groupId>
-    <version>0.15.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.16.0</version>
   </parent>
 
   <groupId>io.opentdf.platform</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4f624b70..1ba492ef 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
     <groupId>io.opentdf.platform</groupId>
     <artifactId>sdk-pom</artifactId>
-    <version>0.15.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.16.0</version>
     <name>io.opentdf.platform:sdk-pom</name>
     <description>OpenTDF Java SDK</description>
     <url>https://github.com/opentdf/java-sdk</url>
diff --git a/sdk-fips-bouncycastle/pom.xml b/sdk-fips-bouncycastle/pom.xml
index 042b3c73..e9862c99 100644
--- a/sdk-fips-bouncycastle/pom.xml
+++ b/sdk-fips-bouncycastle/pom.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <parent>
         <groupId>io.opentdf.platform</groupId>
         <artifactId>sdk-pom</artifactId>
-        <version>0.15.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.16.0</version>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>sdk-fips-bouncycastle</artifactId>
     <name>io.opentdf.platform:sdk-fips-bouncycastle</name>
diff --git a/sdk/pom.xml b/sdk/pom.xml
index 7486b684..a9e4443c 100644
--- a/sdk/pom.xml
+++ b/sdk/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>sdk-pom</artifactId>
         <groupId>io.opentdf.platform</groupId>
-        <version>0.15.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.16.0</version>
     </parent>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <properties>
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@
         <okhttp.version>4.12.0</okhttp.version>
         <platform.branch>protocol/go/v0.16.0</platform.branch>
         <!-- in the non-FIPS case we don't need to pass anything to the jvm -->
-        <java.security.properties.test></java.security.properties.test>
+        <java.security.properties.test/>
         <!-- Default empty argLine; overridden by jacoco:prepare-agent when the `coverage` profile is active -->
-        <argLine></argLine>
+        <argLine/>
     </properties>
     <dependencies>
         <!-- Logging Dependencies -->
diff --git a/sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/Version.java b/sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/Version.java
index 718c1ca8..a0293738 100644
--- a/sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/Version.java
+++ b/sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/Version.java
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 class Version implements Comparable<Version> {
 
     // Version of the SDK, managed by release-please.
-    public static final String SDK = "0.15.1-SNAPSHOT"; // x-release-please-version
+    public static final String SDK = "0.16.0"; // x-release-please-version
 
     private final int major;
     private final int minor;