From ebc7f92efe1e124216dec374e564042a6201c2ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 22:26:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release 2.16.1 (#906)

Co-authored-by: release-please[bot] <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .release-please-manifest.json                        |  2 +-
 CHANGELOG.md                                         | 12 ++++++++++++
 google/pubsub/gapic_version.py                       |  2 +-
 google/pubsub_v1/gapic_version.py                    |  2 +-
 .../snippet_metadata_google.pubsub.v1.json           |  2 +-
 5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 2f416052a..63e8f9d93 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {
-    ".": "2.16.0"
+    ".": "2.16.1"
 }
   
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f4f1f925e..c14ce50a8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,18 @@
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-pubsub/#history
 
 
+## [2.16.1](https://github.com/googleapis/python-pubsub/compare/v2.16.0...v2.16.1) (2023-05-05)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* Allow dropping cleaned-up keys ([#911](https://github.com/googleapis/python-pubsub/issues/911)) ([4b3157c](https://github.com/googleapis/python-pubsub/commit/4b3157ccb83771a2e613fc3475035f24d358ccf6))
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* Add comment to setup.py ([#905](https://github.com/googleapis/python-pubsub/issues/905)) ([9825109](https://github.com/googleapis/python-pubsub/commit/9825109a826e63cd076c21367157be7a3c01c45b))
+
 ## [2.16.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-pubsub/compare/v2.15.2...v2.16.0) (2023-04-06)
 
 
diff --git a/google/pubsub/gapic_version.py b/google/pubsub/gapic_version.py
index a2303530d..8edfaef71 100644
--- a/google/pubsub/gapic_version.py
+++ b/google/pubsub/gapic_version.py
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-__version__ = "2.16.0"  # {x-release-please-version}
+__version__ = "2.16.1"  # {x-release-please-version}
diff --git a/google/pubsub_v1/gapic_version.py b/google/pubsub_v1/gapic_version.py
index a2303530d..8edfaef71 100644
--- a/google/pubsub_v1/gapic_version.py
+++ b/google/pubsub_v1/gapic_version.py
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-__version__ = "2.16.0"  # {x-release-please-version}
+__version__ = "2.16.1"  # {x-release-please-version}
diff --git a/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.pubsub.v1.json b/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.pubsub.v1.json
index b80eb543a..aadbccf0d 100644
--- a/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.pubsub.v1.json
+++ b/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.pubsub.v1.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     ],
     "language": "PYTHON",
     "name": "google-cloud-pubsub",
-    "version": "2.16.0"
+    "version": "2.16.1"
   },
   "snippets": [
     {