From 23a635ed61c47609c88fd0fd7bfc7b08c398742d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Quentin=20Gallou=C3=A9dec?=
 <45557362+qgallouedec@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:03:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Release: v0.16 (#3137)

---
 .github/workflows/tests_latest.yml | 2 +-
 .gitignore                         | 2 +-
 CITATION.cff                       | 2 +-
 setup.py                           | 2 +-
 trl/__init__.py                    | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests_latest.yml b/.github/workflows/tests_latest.yml
index 9d957a424..bb98a3558 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests_latest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests_latest.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Git checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with: { ref: v0.15-release }
+        with: { ref: v0.16-release }
       - name: Set up Python 3.12
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 19b9bb428..4686c6338 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -142,4 +142,4 @@ checklink/cookies.txt
 # wandb files
 nbs/wandb/
 examples/notebooks/wandb/
-wandb/
+wandb/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 68076ef70..cae5244a5 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -31,4 +31,4 @@ keywords:
   - pytorch
   - transformers
 license: Apache-2.0
-version: 0.15
+version: 0.16
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3e67a32eb..ef7f3cdde 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ To create the package for PyPI.
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
 
-__version__ = "0.16.0.dev0"  # expected format is one of x.y.z.dev0, or x.y.z.rc1 or x.y.z (no to dashes, yes to dots)
+__version__ = "0.16.0"  # expected format is one of x.y.z.dev0, or x.y.z.rc1 or x.y.z (no to dashes, yes to dots)
 
 REQUIRED_PKGS = [
     "accelerate>=0.34.0",
diff --git a/trl/__init__.py b/trl/__init__.py
index 0301f07ba..8be502fa3 100644
--- a/trl/__init__.py
+++ b/trl/__init__.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-__version__ = "0.16.0.dev0"
+__version__ = "0.16.0"
 
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING