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From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:21:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release 1.16.0

---
 CHANGELOG.md                   | 7 +++++++
 sqlalchemy_bigquery/version.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 72311aa6..bb860cd8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ Older versions of this project were distributed as [pybigquery][0].
 [2]: https://pypi.org/project/pybigquery/#history
 
 
+## [1.16.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-sqlalchemy/compare/v1.15.0...v1.16.0) (2025-09-16)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* Remove python 3.8 support ([#1215](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-sqlalchemy/issues/1215)) ([632d6ef](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-sqlalchemy/commit/632d6ef024bdd1dcb4206e2b111063f79f29b7ba))
+
 ## [1.15.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-sqlalchemy/compare/v1.14.1...v1.15.0) (2025-06-18)
 
 
diff --git a/sqlalchemy_bigquery/version.py b/sqlalchemy_bigquery/version.py
index 86059295..e76f81a9 100644
--- a/sqlalchemy_bigquery/version.py
+++ b/sqlalchemy_bigquery/version.py
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
 # IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
 # CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-__version__ = "1.15.0"
+__version__ = "1.16.0"