From a59a42eb148304b1e1f34ae5d761c463104c91b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:41:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release 3.16.0

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
 setup.py     |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a24690c4dc..dafa091d82 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,21 @@
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-spanner/#history
 
+## [3.16.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/compare/v3.15.1...v3.16.0) (2022-07-11)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* Automated Release Blessing ([#767](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/issues/767)) ([19caf44](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/commit/19caf44489e0af915405466960cf83bea4d3a579))
+* python typing ([#646](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/issues/646)) ([169019f](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/commit/169019f283b4fc1f82be928de8e61477bd7f33ca))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* [@421](https://github.com/421) ([#769](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/issues/769)) ([58640a1](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/commit/58640a1e013fb24dde403706ae32c851112128c9))
+* add pause for the staleness test ([#762](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/issues/762)) ([bb7f1db](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/commit/bb7f1db57a0d06800ff7c81336756676fc7ec109))
+* require python 3.7+ ([#768](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/issues/768)) ([f2c273d](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/commit/f2c273d592ddc7d2c5de5ee6284d3b4ecba8a3c1))
+
 ## [3.15.1](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/compare/v3.15.0...v3.15.1) (2022-06-17)
 
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2e03f33ebe..47f5a913d3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 name = "google-cloud-spanner"
 description = "Cloud Spanner API client library"
-version = "3.15.1"
+version = "3.16.0"
 # Should be one of:
 # 'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha'
 # 'Development Status :: 4 - Beta'