v1.16.11

Signed-off-by: Shizuo Fujita <fujita@clear-code.com>
Co-authored-by: Daijiro Fukuda <fukuda@clear-code.com>

Author: Watson1978

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,26 @@
 # v1.16
 
+## Release v1.16.11 - 2025/12/12
+
+### Bug Fix
+
+* out_forward: fix issue where could cause output to stop when using `<security>` and TLS setting together under unstable network environments
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/5137
+
+### Misc
+
+* Add missing gem dependency on Ruby 3.4.
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/5172
+
+* CI improvemnts
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/5135
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/5175
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/5182
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/5183
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/5185
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/5187
+  https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/pull/5189
+
 ## Release v1.16.10 - 2025/09/12
 
 ### Bug Fix

lib/fluent/version.rb

@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@
 
 module Fluent
 
-  VERSION = '1.16.10'
+  VERSION = '1.16.11'
 
 end