v16.0.0rc1 release notes #436

Job	Run time
Test Windows (windows-latest, 3.10)	7m 30s
Build sdist and wheels	27s
Test Windows (windows-latest, 3.11)	7m 32s
Test macOS (macos-latest, 3.10)	7m 37s
Test Windows (windows-latest, 3.12)	7m 54s
Test macOS (macos-latest, 3.11)	10m 10s
Test ubuntu-22.04 with Python 3.10	5m 12s
Test macOS (macos-latest, 3.12)	12m 16s
Test ubuntu-22.04 with Python 3.11	5m 22s
Test ubuntu-22.04 with Python 3.10	5m 8s
Test ubuntu-latest with Python 3.12	5m 37s
Build Ubuntu-based Docker image	9m 14s
Build Alpine-based Docker images	1m 5s
Deploy artifacts to PyPI	0s
Create GitHub release	0s
	1h 25m 4s

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