without substantial changes to our git log; to see the highlights of what has
been added to each release, please refer to the [blog](https://blog.gitea.io).
+## [1.16.9](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/1.16.9) - 2022-06-20
+
+* BUGFIXES
+ * Fix permission check for delete tag (#19985) (#20001)
+ * Only log non ErrNotExist errors in git.GetNote (#19884) (#19905)
+ * Use exact search instead of fuzzy search for branch filter dropdown (#19885) (#19893)
+ * Set Setpgid on child git processes (#19865) (#19881)
+ * Import git from alpine 3.16 repository as 2.30.4 is needed for `safe.directory = '*'` to work but alpine 3.13 has 2.30.3 (#19876)
+ * Ensure responses are context.ResponseWriters (#19843) (#19859)
+ * Fix incorrect usage of `Count` function (#19850)
+ * Fix raw endpoint PDF file headers (#19825) (#19826)
+ * Make WIP prefixes case insensitive, e.g. allow `Draft` as a WIP prefix (#19780) (#19811)
+ * Don't return 500 on NotificationUnreadCount (#19802)
+ * Prevent NPE when cache service is disabled (#19703) (#19783)
+ * Detect truncated utf-8 characters at the end of content as still representing utf-8 (#19773) (#19774)
+ * Fix doctor pq: syntax error at or near "." quote user table name (#19765) (#19770)
+ * Fix bug with assigneees (#19757)
+
## [1.16.8](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.16.8) - 2022-05-16
* ENHANCEMENTS