v1.16.8

Signed-off-by: Daijiro Fukuda <fukuda@clear-code.com>

Author: daipom

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,33 @@
 # v1.16
 
+## Release v1.16.8 - 2025/05/01
+
+### Bug Fix
+
+* winsvc: Stop the service when the supervisor is dead
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4942
+* formatter_csv: Fix memory leak
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4920
+
+### Misc
+
+* Add fiddle as dependency gem for Ruby 3.5 on Windows
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4919
+* Refactoring code
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4921
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4922
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4926
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4943
+* CI improvemnts
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4821
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4850
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4851
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4862
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4915
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4923
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4925
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/4927
+
 ## Release v1.16.7 - 2025/01/29
 
 ### Bug Fix

lib/fluent/version.rb

@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@
 
 module Fluent
 
-  VERSION = '1.16.7'
+  VERSION = '1.16.8'
 
 end