Bumping version to 1.6.0rc1 and generate changelog

Author: FishtownBuildBot

.bumpversion.cfg

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 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 1.6.0b4
+current_version = 1.6.0rc1
 parse = (?P<major>[\d]+) # major version number
 	\.(?P<minor>[\d]+) # minor version number
 	\.(?P<patch>[\d]+) # patch version number

.changes/1.6.0-rc1.md

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+## dbt-bigquery 1.6.0-rc1 - July 17, 2023
+
+### Features
+
+- Move the BQ Job link after the job submission instead of job done ([#696](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/696))
+- add dbt-bigquery portion of dbt_clone fucntionality ([#7256](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/7256))
+- Add validate_sql to BigQuery adapter and dry_run to BigQueryConnectionManager ([#805](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/805))
+
+### Fixes
+
+- add negative part_number arg for split part macro ([#615](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/615))
+- Enable single-line `private_key` for BigQuery Service Account JSON Authentication ([#7164](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/7164))
+- Use tmp table in static insert overwrite to avoid computing the SQL twice ([#427](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/427), [#556](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/556))
+- remove call to dataset update if dataset has not changed ([#770](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/770))
+- Remove dependent_projects argument from PartialProject call in unit test ([#7955](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/7955))
+- Contracts: Handle struct column specified both at root and nested levels + arrays of structs ([#781](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/781), [#782](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/782))
+
+### Dependencies
+
+- Update types-requests requirement from ~=2.28 to ~=2.31 ([#737](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/737))
+- Update tox requirement from ~=4.4 to ~=4.6 ([#757](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/757))
+- Bump mypy from 1.2.0 to 1.4.0 ([#780](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/780))
+- Update types-protobuf requirement from ~=4.22 to ~=4.23 ([#706](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/706))
+- Update pre-commit requirement from ~=3.2 to ~=3.3 ([#787](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/787))
+- Update pytest requirement from ~=7.3 to ~=7.4 ([#788](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/788))
+- Bump mypy from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 ([#789](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/789))
+- Update pytest-xdist requirement from ~=3.2 to ~=3.3 ([#790](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/790))
+- Update pip-tools requirement from ~=6.13 to ~=6.14 ([#809](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/809))
+
+### Contributors
+- [@Kayrnt](https://github.com/Kayrnt) ([#696](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/696), [#427](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/427), [#556](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/556))
+- [@McKnight-42,](https://github.com/McKnight-42,) ([#7256](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/7256))
+- [@dave-connors-3](https://github.com/dave-connors-3) ([#615](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/615))
+- [@tlento](https://github.com/tlento) ([#805](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/805))